Name: Flash Flood in Texas, September 2, 2001
Start: 2001-09-02T15:45
End: 2001-09-02T15:45
Location: Texas

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 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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 2, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
245 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2001

SHORT TERM...CONVECTION FIRING ALONG SEABREEZE BOUNDARY OVER COASTAL
ZONES THIS AFTERNOON WITH RANDOM BOUNDARIES TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND
STORMS FURTHER W.  THINK MOST ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET
BUT WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN UPPER COASTAL ZONES FOR TONIGHT.  PWATS
ARE FORECASTED TO LOWER SLIGHTLY OVER NEXT FEW DAYS...HOWEVER AN
UPPER TROUGH IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO AREA ON TUESDAY..  WILL
HAVE LOW DIURNAL POPS OVER EASTERN SECTIONS FOR MONDAY AS PLENTY OF
MOISTURE...INSTABILITY AND S/W ENERGY IS STILL AVAILABLE. WILL
INCREASE POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY ON TUESDAY WITH FURTHER DIGGING OF
TROUGH.

EXTENDED...WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS THROUGH EXTENDED AS MEAN TROUGH
PATTERN CONTINUES OVER TEXAS.  SURFACE TROUGH AND SEABREEZE WILL ACT
AS FOCUS FOR MAINLY DIURNAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.  MAY
SEE A LITTLE LESS ACTIVITY TOWARD THE WEEKEND AS PATTERN BECOMES
MORE DIFFUSE.

MARINE...LIGHT WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDWEEK AS A TROUGH
REMAINS OVER THE REGION. AMPLE MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH THE TROUGH
TO SUPPORT ISO/WSCAT ACTIVITY...AND PICK UP ON TUE/WED AS AN UPPER
DISTURBANCE SWINGS INTO THE AREA.

CRP BB 077/094 076/093 075 72122
VCT BB 075/094 075/092 073 72122
LRD BB 079/099 078/096 077 72112=

.CRP...NONE.

AP...72 SYN
MC...84 MESO

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 5 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Nueces

When: September 2, 3:45 PM CST
Where: Nueces County, Corpus Christi
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 27.735, -97.516 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

U & I resaurant flooded in downtown Corpus Christi.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, September 2001

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: 5263573.