2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 12, 4:10 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
410 AM CST MON NOV 12 2001
WEAK UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD THROUGH NORTH TEXAS
THIS MORNING...BUT SHOULD BE OUT OF ALL BUT THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE
AREA BY THIS EVENING. NEXT BOUT OF WEATHER COULD MOVE INTO REGION AS
EARLY AS WEDNESDAY AS MODELS PERSIST IN CLOSING OFF A LOW IN THE
SOUTHWESTERN U.S. AND LETTING IT REMAIN THERE FOR SEVERAL
DAYS...THEN EJECTING IT THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEKEND.
IN THE MEANTIME...LOOK FOR HUMID AIRMASS TO REMAIN OVER THE AREA
THIS WEEK...WITH TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL NORMS. MOS
TEMPS ARE A BIT WARM...BUT POPS ARE FAIRLY CLOSE.
DFW 68 58 73 60 / 30 10 10 10
ACT 70 59 75 60 / 50 10 10 10
.FWD...DENSE FOG ADVISORY THROUGH 10 AM FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL
PART OF NORTH TEXAS
42TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-122200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 435 AM CST MON NOV 12 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT. A VERY MOIST AND SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL SUPPORT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING... ESPECIALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN WELL BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. ...FOG... DENSE FOG WILL CAUSE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS THIS MORNING... WITH VISIBILITIES BELOW ONE QUARTER MILE IN MANY AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION. CONDITIONS WILL SLOWLY IMPROVE AFTER DAYBREAK...WITH THE FOG LIFTING BY MID DAY. 09
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A house was flooded in Leroy, and roads and bridges were flooded in the surrounding area.
Three persons were rescued from a vehicle stalled in high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 2001
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: 5274881, 5274882.