1 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 19, 2:04 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 204 PM CST MON NOV 19 2001 STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWA WITH WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN FRONT AND 850 MB FRONT OVER CENTRAL TEXAS AND AHEAD OF LEFT FRONT QUAD OF SPEED MAX. WILL CONTINUE 20 POPS ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING...THEN ALL FEATURES MOVE SOUTH AND EAST WITH FAIRLY RAPID CLEARING LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. WILL NOT CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH INTO THE EVENING AS GREATEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL MOVE OUT OF WATCH AREA. COULD SEE SOME CLOUDS PERSIST SOUTHWEST DUE WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT AHEAD OF WEAK TROUGH OVER NORTHWESTERN MEXICO. COLDEST NIGHT TO BE TUESDAY NIGHT WITH LIGHT WINDS AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AS SURFACE HIGH SETTLES IN OVER AREA. HOWEVER...COLD GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES LIKELY NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT RATHER HIGH SOIL MOISTURE THAT COULD KEEP UP SURFACE DEWPOINTS. THUS...A BLEND SEEMS REASONABLE. IF MODEL DEWPOINTS VERIFY...THEN WILL LIKELY NEED A FREEZE WARNING FOR THE NORTHERN CWA. LOWER LEVEL MOISTURE MAKES A BRIEF RETURN WEDNESDAY LATE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT AHEAD OF MEXICAN TROUGH THAT KICK EAST EARLY ON THANKSGIVING DAY. ENOUGH MOISTURE TO INCLUDE ISOLATED SHOWERS IN THE EAST. THEN FAST FLOW FRIDAY AND SATURDAY KEEPS AREA DRY AHEAD. ANOTHER SHORT-WAVE SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL CREATE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AS MOISTURE RETURNS AGAIN. PRELIMS AUS 041/059 033/062 041 20001 SAT 045/059 035/063 045 20001 DRT 048/059 040/064 048 20000 .EWX...NONE 04/06
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Nueces River went above flood stage. Near Asherton, it crested at 27.96' (flood stage is 20.0') on November 18 at 1800CST. Due to equipment problems, some times were estimated.
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: 5272054.