Texas, 2001

Flash Flood in Texas, July 15, 2001

July 15, 2001 · NWS AMA · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall caused flash flooding over the central Texas panhandle during the evening hours.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
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 AMA wrote it up.

Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall caused flash flooding over the central Texas panhandle during the evening hours.

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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
315 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 2001

SFC TEMPS IN 90S AND SFC DWPTS IN 60S ARE YIELDING SBCAPES 1600 TO
3400 ACRS FCST AREA.  CNVGNC IS STRONGEST OVR NWRN ZNS NR SFC TROF...
WITH ANOTHER ZONE OF EHHANCED CNVGNC OVR ERN ZNS.  LAPSE RATES ARE
NOT VERY STEEP.  WEAK SHTWV WL BE MOVG ACRS NWRN ZNS SOON.  WL KEEP
CHC POPS GOING FOR NWRN ZNS 1ST PD...WITH SLGT CHC ELSEWHERE.  ON
MON...SFC TROF BGNS MOVG SLOWLY EWD.  TEMPS EXPCD TO BE SLGTLY WMR
AS H5 HGTS BGN TO INCR.  LOW POPS WARRANTED MON THRU WED DUE TO
MARGINAL INSTBY AND WK CNVGNC.

EXTDD LOOKS TO BE VERY WM AND DRY AS H5 RDG RMNS OVR SRN U.S.  03

.A<MA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

COCKRELL

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Hutchinson

When
July 15, 7:16 PM CST to 9:15 PM CST
Where
Hutchinson County, Stinnett
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
35.840, -101.355 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Ten to twelve inches of water over three to four streets was reported in town with the flash flooding lasting about two hours.

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

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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: 5251829.