Name: Flash Flood in Texas, September 9, 2001
Start: 2001-09-09T13:00
End: 2001-09-09T16:00
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 9, 8:15 AM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 8:15 AM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
915 AM CDT SUN SEP 9 2001

DISCUSSION...12Z CRP SOUNDING DEPICTS AN INCREASE IN PWAT FROM 1.71
TO 2.03 INCHES DURING THE PAST 24-HRS WITH A CAPE NEAR 5000 J/KG.  A
DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW AROUND 25KT IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER WEAKENS WITH
HEIGHT AND VEERS TO THE SW IN THE 850-700MB LAYER AND BECOMES WEST
AROUND 400 MB.  360K THETA-E RIDGE EXTENDS NORTHWARD ACROSS THE ERN
FA WITH A THETA-E TROF ACROSS THE WRN FA THIS MORNING.  WSR-88D REF
IMAGERY DISPLAYS THE DEEP CONVECTION LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL/SOUTH
CENTRAL/SE TEXAS THIS MORNING..CONCENTRATED EAST OF I35 AND
ALONG/NORTH OF I10.  OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH OF SAT
AND IS ORIENTED ON A SW-NE AXIS EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF THE NW CWA
BORDER TO NEAR HALLETTSVILLE (N OF THE NERN CWA).  EXPECT PORTIONS
OF THE FA EAST OF I37 TO HAVE THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION WITH
THIS FEATURE TODAY..IN PHASE WITH THE THETA-E MAX AND HIGHEST
BUOYANCY VALUES.  CURRENT FCST IS IN AGREEMENT..AND WILL MAKE MINOR
ADJUSTMENTS.  1-HR FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE ACROSS THE CWA RANGES FROM
1.3 INCHES IN VICTORIA COUNTY..1.4 INCHES IN WEBB..1.9 INCHES IN
NUECES COUNTY..AND 2.4 IN GOLIAD COUNTY.  WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT
ANTICIPATED WITH THIS EVENT AT THIS TIME..AND NO FFA IS IN EFFECT.

BML.76

.CRP...NONE.

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 5 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:59 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Nueces

When: September 9, 1:00 PM CST to 4:00 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)

Several streets flooded.

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: 5276235.