Name: Flash Flood in Texas, September 5, 2001
Start: 2001-09-05T13:30
End: 2001-09-05T13:30
Location: Texas

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

Open the live radar over this ground

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 5, 9:35 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 9:35 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1035 AM CDT WED SEP 5 2001

12Z CRP SOUNDING CONTS TO INDICATE AMPLE MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE
AIRMASS. MODELS SHOW SFC AND UPPER LEVEL LOW DRIFTING N TODAY WITH
RELATIVELY DRIER MID/UPPER LEVEL AIRMASS MOVING IN. AGREE WITH MID
SHIFT THAT BEST PRECIP CHANCES WILL SHIFT N AND W THROUGHOUT THE
DAY. WV SAT SHOWS DRIER MID/UPPER LEVEL AIRMASS ROTATING IN FROM THE
WEST AROUND UPPER LOW LOCATED OVER CENTRAL TX. FEEL COMBINATION OF A
50 KNOT UPPER LEV JET NOSING IN ACROSS WEST TX...BLY FORCING/SFC
CONV AND MID LEVEL DRYING...WILL PRODUCE STRONG TSRAS WESTERN TWO
THIRDS OF FA AND...TO A LESSER DEGREE...NRN ZONES LATER IN THE
AFTERNOON. WITH SATURATED GROUNDS...WILL NOT TAKE MUCH TO FLOOD.
CURRENT ZONES ON TRACK AND WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES ATTM. MARINE
FCST ALSO LOOKS GOOD.

.CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-239>247 THROUGH THIS EVENING.
RIVER FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-243>247 THROUGH TONIGHT.

81/TE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 5, 12:29 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
129 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0115 PM    PORT LAVACA               TX   FLOOD
09/05/01   CALHOUN                        FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1090 AT 6
                                          MILE CREEK IS FLOODED.

0115 PM    PORT LAVACA               TX   FLOOD
09/05/01   CALHOUN                        THE INTERSECTION OF HOLLOWMAN
                                          AND MCDONALD ROADS IS FLOODED.

0115 PM    PORT LAVACA               TX   FLOOD
09/05/01   CALHOUN                        FARM TO MARKET ROAD 3084 AT
                                          AIRPORT IS FLOODED.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Victoria

When: September 5, 1:30 PM CST
Where: Victoria County, South Portion
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 28.796, -96.971 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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

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: 5276232.