Flash Flood, Williamson
- When
- July 1, 9:15 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, East Portion
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.648, -97.601 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, July 1, 2001
Thunderstorms moving repeatedly over the eastern part of Williamson county produced a general rainfall of 2 to 3 inches, with as much as 5 inches reported from near Taylor northeastward to the Milam County line. Flash flooding closed numerous county roads through the remainder of the morning.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moving repeatedly over the eastern part of Williamson county produced a general rainfall of 2 to 3 inches, with as much as 5 inches reported from near Taylor northeastward to the Milam County line. Flash flooding closed numerous county roads through the remainder of the morning.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 8:03 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 8:03 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 903 AM CDT SUN JUL 1 2001 AREA 88D'S SHOW CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTING INTO THE NORTHERN CWA WITH SOME DEVELOPMENT SOUTHEAST AS WELL. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES. WILL UPDATE TO BOOST POPS AND MENTION HEAVY RAINS AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER CHANGES...ALTHOUGH WILL PRO1BABLY HAVE TO LOWER AFTERNOON HIGHS IN ANOTHER UPDATE LATER DUE DEBRIS CLOUDS. 04/06/JB. .EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:40 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-011700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 640 AM CDT SUN JUL 1 2001 ...WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY... ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM TO THE NORTH WILL MOVE SOUTH TODAY...POSSIBLY AFFECTING PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A MORE UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT IS POSSIBLE...MAKING IT EASIER FOR WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN TEXAS HILL COUNTRY TO ADJACENT PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING...AND COULD CONTINUE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHWEST TO PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN POSSIBLE IN THE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING FOR THE HILL COUNTRY TO ADJACENT PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS...AND OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Drought in Michigan, July 1 to 31, 2001
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 1, 2001
- Rip Current in Michigan, July 1, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Maryland, July 1, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 1, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Guam, July 1 to 3, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, July 1, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, July 1 to 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 1, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, July 1, 2001
- Flood in Minnesota, July 1 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in West Virginia, July 1, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5253688.