1 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 16, 3:04 AM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
304 AM CST FRI NOV 16 2001
SHORT TERM...THE COMBINATION OF THE UPPER LOW TO THE WEST...LOCAL
MSTR AND INSTABILITY...WL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL CONVECTION TDA.
THUS...WL MAINTAIN THE FFA OVER THE CWFA FOR TDA. EXPECT BRN VALUES
IN THE SUPERCELL RANGE LATER TDA. FURTHER...MID LVL DRYING WL LIKELY
CONTRIBUTE TO STRONG WIND GUSTS. ADDITIONAL CONVECTION EXPECTED
SAT HWR EXPECT VERTICAL SHEAR TO DECREASE SIGNFICANTLY AS THE UPPER
LOW LIFTS NWD.
EXTENDED...DRIER ASSOCIATED WITH AN N-S UPPER RIDGE AXIS TO THE
IMMEDIATE EAST WILL MOVE TOWARD THE CWFA AND MINIMIZE PCPN CHANCES
SUN. A SFC COLD FRONT...IN RESPONSE TO A DISTURBANCE TO MOVE ACRS
THE NRN CONUS...IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE CWFA BY LATE MON-TUE.
UPPER DISTURBANCES FROM MEXICO ARE PROGD TO MOVE ACROSS THE CWFA
MON-TUE. HWR...NOT CONFIDENT THAT MSTR WL BE SUFFICIENT AND WL LEAVE
OUT PCPN MON-TUE. A STRONGER UPPER DISTURBANCE IS PROGD TO AFFECT
THE CWFA WED-THU AND WL MAINTAIN A SLGT CHANCE FOR ACTIVITY THEN.
MARINE...WILL KEEP SCA GOING OFFSHORE AS WINDS NEAR 20 KNOTS...
GRADIENT STILL GOOD TO 850 MB AND SEAS AROUND 7 FEET. BAYS/INLAND
MAY BE A LITTLE BELOW THE CRITERION AT TIMES...BUT WILL KEEP SCA
GOING AS EXPECT PLENTY OF CONVECTION TO KEEP MARINERS IN PORT WITH
HIGHER SEAS AND LOTS OF LIGHTNING. THETA-E AXIS SHIFTS BACK TO WEST
ON SATURDAY AS UPPER LOW MOVES NORTHWARD AND WEAKENS...SO PRECIP
CHANCES DIMINISH. WINDS ALSO SUBSIDE. SUNDAY AND MONDAY SHOULD
REMAIN PRECIP FREE WHILE WEAK SURFACE HIGH BUILDS IN. AT THIS
TIME...FEEL RAIN CHANCES TOO LOW FOR TUESDAY TO MENTION AS UPPER LOW
TOO FAR TO WEST. MWS WIBIS TO HIGHLIGHT THREAT OF THUNDER TODAY.
CRP TE 079/066 079/063 080 87654
VCT TE 078/063 078/061 079 87654
LRD TE 081/068 081/067 082 87553
.CRP...FFA TXZ229>234-239>247 TDA.
SCA GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275.
87 (SYNOPTIC)
86 (MARINE)PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
227 AM CST FRI NOV 16 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
120 AM AT FREER TX .88 INCH HAIL
11/16/01 DUVAL DIME TO PENNY-SIZED HAIL
105 AM 2 SE MATHIS TX FLOOD
11/16/01 SAN PATRICIO FM 188 AND CR35 WATER OVER
ROAD...ROAD
CLOSED.
GWTXZ229>234-239>247-170000- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 607 AM CST FRI NOV 16 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY OVER THE COASTAL BEND AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER WEST TEXAS WILL COMBINE WITH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN TODAY OVER THE COASTAL BEND AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS SUGGEST THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREATS INCLUDE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WC
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:11 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Some streets and roads in and around Laredo closed.
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: 5276332.