2 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 Sep 5, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 245 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 UPPER LOW OVER TX PROGD TO SLOWLY BE DRAWN NWD AND ABSORBED BY NEXT UPPER LOW OVER PAC NW DIGGING SWD ACROSS THE SW U.S. AS A RESULT...UPPER LEV DISTS WILL CONT ACROSS S TX. WV SAT INDICATED DRY SLOT ROTATING ACROSS W FA WITH A 50-60 KNOT JET DIGGING S ACROSS W TX. MODELS PROG PWATS TO INCREASE OVER W FA OVERNIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF THE DIGGING JET OUT WEST...SFC MOIST CONV MOVG INLAND AND THE INCREASING PWATS OUT WEST...SHOULD PRODUCE AND MAINTAIN CONVECTION OVER RIO GRANDE PLAINS TONIGHT. SATELLITE AND LTG DATA INDICATED DEVELOPMENT OVER MEX W OF RIO GRANDE PLAINS. PWATS ARE PROGD TO DECREASE OVER E FA OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...WITH CURRENT RADAR INDICATING TRAINING OVER NE FA...CONVECTION OFFSHORE AND SE OF BRO MOVG NW...AND WITH VERY LOW FFG VALUES...AM INCLINED TO KEEP FFA IN EFFECT FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT. FFA MAY BE CANCELLED LATER TONIGHT FOR COASTAL COUNTIES IF WARRANTED. AS UPPER LOW BECOMES LESS OF AN INFLUENCE ON THU AND PWATS DECREASE...FLOODING POTENTIAL ALSO DIMINISHES. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND WEAKENING UPPER LEVEL LOW...WILL REMAIN IN PLACE TO WARRANT LOW POPS WITH MAYBE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. WITH LESS CLOUDS/RAIN ON THU AND FRI...MAX TEMPS WILL BE WARMER. WINDS WILL INCREASE NEXT TWO DAYS AS SFC LOW DEEPENDS ACROSS THE PLAINS. ETA...AVN AND UKMET PROG AN UPPER LOW CURRENTLY OVER THE PAC NW TO DIG S OVER THE SW U.S. AND INTO TX WITH AN ASSOC CF TO MOVE INTO N TX BY LATE FRI. THE AVN BRINGS THIS FRONT THROUGH THE ENTIRE FA BY SAT NIGHT/SUN MORN. THIS HIGHLY DEPENDS ON JUST HOW FAR S THE UPPER LOW ACTUALLY DIGS. WILL NOT ENTIRELY JUMP ON THIS SCENARIO JUST YET SO AS TO AVOID FLIP FLOPPING IF NEXT RUN IS NOT AS AGRESSIVE. WILL ONLY GO WITH THE CF APPROACHING THE FA. THIS WILL FALL MORE IN LINE WITH CURRENT EXTENDED AND MRF POPS IN THE 30-40 PERCENT RANGE THROUGH WED. MARINE...WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER RIDGE WILL CONTINUE. H5 LOW CURRENTLY OVER N TX IS FCST TO WEAKEN AND SLIDE NE. THIS WILL ALLOW SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR TO FILTER ACROSS THE REGION. THERE WILL STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE PRESENT TO MAINTAIN THE MENTION OF AT LEAST ISOLATED CONVECTION. RADAR THIS AFTERNOON HAS SHOWN AN INCREASE IN CONVECTION OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. SATELLITE PIX SHOW MOISTURE CURRENTLY CROSSING THE YUCATAN AND ANOTHER AREA ALONG THE MEXICAN COAST THAT COULD KEEP CHCS FOR PCPN HIGHER THAN FCST SHOWS. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AS PRESSURES LOWER ACROSS W TX. HIGHEST SPEEDS WILL BE NOTED OVER THE BAYS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENINGS..WITH OFFSHORE WATERS EXPERIENCING THE NOCTURNAL EFFECT AND SEEING WINDS HIGHEST AT NIGHT. EXTENDED IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THIS AFTERNOON..WITH MODELS WANTING TO PUSH A COLD FRONT OFF THE TEXAS COAST. WILL AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF ADDITIONAL DATA BEFORE CHANGING THE CURRENT THINKING. LATER SHIFTS WOULD NEED TO MAKE MAJOR CHANGES IN THE EXTENDED IF THIS SOUTHWARD TREND CONTINUES. .CRP...NONE. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: CRP BB 076/092 077/093 077 42-- VCT BB 075/091 075/093 077 4211 LRD BB 076/096 078/099 078 521- .CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-239>247 TONIGHT. RIVER FLOOD WATCH TXZ229>234-243>247 THROUGH TONIGHT. 81/TE 73/MSL
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.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
331 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM MCFADDIN TX FLOOD
09/05/01 VICTORIA OLD REFUGIO ROAD FLOODEDThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several streets and roads closed.Spotter report of 2.2 inches of rain in less than 1 hour.
Several streets and roads 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, September 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: 5276233, 5276234.