Flash Flood, Val Verde
- When
- September 3, 8:00 PM CST to 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, Del Rio
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.893, -101.152 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, September 3, 2001
Thunderstorms moving southward into southern Val Verde County dropped rainfall of up to 2 inches in 2 hours in the early evening, causing brief flash flooding in the city of Del Rio.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
Thunderstorms moving southward into southern Val Verde County dropped rainfall of up to 2 inches in 2 hours in the early evening, causing brief flash flooding in the city of Del Rio.
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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 3, 7:30 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 7:30 PM CST, 30 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 830 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001 OPEN WAVE AT 700 TO 300 MB AT 12Z 3 SEP VCNTY OK TO W TX HAS EVOLVED INTO A CLOSED LOW ALOFT NOW FM W OK TO W PART OF NORTH TX. HEIGHT FIELD ALOFT ACROSS CWA CONTS TO ADJUST TO THIS CHANGE AS SPLIT IN HIGH ALOFT. THIS FEATURE WL CONT TO BECOME WEAK TROUGH VCNTY 700 TO 300 MB THRU TUESDAY WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS ALOFT. THESE INCREDIANTS BODE WELL FOR CONTD INCREASING CHC OF RAIN...THAT WILL INTERACT WITH ENDLESS LOW LVL BOUNDARIES THAT FORM FROM ONGOING CONVECTION NOW...AND CONVECTION THAT FORMS TUESDAY. THIS PATTERN WL SUPPORT FFA FOR EAST TWO-THIRDS OF CWA FOR NOW THRU TUESDAY...IN WAKE OF MUCH ABOVE NORMAL LATE AUGUST AND SEP 1ST AND 2ND SCT RAINS. WEAKNESS IN HEIGHT FIELD THAT EVOLVES THRU TUESDAY IS FORECAST TO CONT WED AND PART OF THURSDAY. BY LATE THURSDAY STRONG EARLY SEP MID LAT TROF COMING THRU UPPER AND MID MS VALLEY IS FORECAST TO TAKE TROF 700 TO 300 MB EAST OF S CNTRL TX... CAUSING CHC OF RAIN TO FALL ON FRI AND SAT. .PRELIMS... AUS 070 085 070 085 070 87463 DRT 070 090 072 089 070 86453 SAT 070 085 072 085 072 87464 .EWX...FFA EAST 2/3RDS OF CWA THRU TUESDAY. 08/18/23
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-041200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 315 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS INDICATED THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS PARTS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ABUNDANT LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...ALONG WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY...WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM BEFORE SUNSET AND POSSIBLY AFFECT THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING MAY ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DIMINISH IN INTENSITY LATER TONIGHT BUT REDEVELOP ON TUESDAY ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY...EDWARDS PLATEAU... AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS ACTIVITY ON TUESDAY WILL BE FROM LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...ALTHOUGH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER AND RIVER FORECASTS AND ADVISORIES. SINCE THE GROUND IS EXTREMELY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS WEEKS HEAVY RAINFALL...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN AND RUNOFF INTO ALREADY SWOLLEN OR FLOODED CREEKS AND RIVERS MAY REQUIRE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ISSUANCE TUESDAY. FOR INFORMATION ON WEATHER THREATS IN SURROUNDING AREAS...PLEASE REFER TO OUTLOOKS FROM OFFICES IN SAN ANGELO...FORT WORTH...CORPUS CHRISTI...HOUSTON/GALVESTON AND MIDLAND/ODESSA.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Rain in Alabama, September 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, September 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, September 3, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, September 3, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 3, 2001
- Hail in Texas, September 3, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 3 to 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Texas, September 3 to 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, September 3, 2001
- Heavy Rain in California, September 3, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, September 3, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Texas, September 3, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5266139.