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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 15, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1000 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ATMOS OVER SOUTH TEXAS QUITE MOIST AND UNSTABLE THIS MORNING. 12Z CRP SOUNDING REVEALED CAPES AROUND 2000 J/KG AND PWATS 1.50 INCHES. CURRENT DOPPLER VAD WIND PROFILE CONTINUES TO SHOW STRONG VERT WIND SHEAR WHICH WILL SUPPORT ORGANIZED STORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. WET BULB ZERO VALUES ARE HIGHER TODAY VERSES YESTERDAY...THEREFORE OUR HAIL THRESHOLDS SHOULD BE A BIT HIGHER. SPC CONSIDERING A WW FOR OUR AREA...WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS CLOSELY. RADAR ALREADY SHOWING CONVECTION FIRING ALONG THE MOISTURE/THERMAL AXIS EXTENDING NORTHWEST INTO THE LOW OVER THE WRN HILL COUNTRY. WV SHOWS SPOKE OF VORTICITY SWINGING THROUGH...12Z MODELS SHOW STRONG OMEGA DEVELOPING OVER MOST OF THE REGION CENTERED ALG THE MOISURE AXIS. THEREFORE HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING ARE LIKELY. CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD. FFA IS IN EFFECT WITH MAIN FOCUS AREAS OVER JIM WELLS AND NORTHERN LIVE OAK COUNTY...WHERE 8-16 INCHES OF RAIN FELL YESTERDAY. HYDROLOGY...MAIN POINT OF CONCERN IS ATASCOSA RIVER AT WHITSETT AND NUECES AT THREE RIVERS. LATEST RFC FCST CALLS FOR A MAJOR FLOOD AT THREE RIVERS AROUND MIDDAY SATURDAY. NO CHANGES TO CURRENT FCST PACKAGE. 75/71 .CRP...FFA ALL ZONES TXZ229>234-239>247.
TXZ229>234-239>247-160300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1030 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...SLIGHT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE COASTAL BEND THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE AND THE WIND SHEAR IS STRONG...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST CONCERN FOR TODAY HOWEVER IS FLOODING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SAME AREAS BRINGING A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE LIKELY...MAINLY OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
TXZ230>234-243>247-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1224 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ARANSAS...BEE...LIVE OAK... NUECES...CALHOUN...REFUGIO...VICTORIA...MCMULLEN...SAN PATRICIO... AND GOLIAD COUNTIES. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE AREA IS CAUSING A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TODAY. IN ADDITION TO POSSIBLE TORNADOS...PERSONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LARGE HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WITH THE SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:57 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several streets and roads closed throughout the county.
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: 5276238, 5276239.