1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 13, 1:26 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 220 AM CDT SAT APR 13 2002 NORTHWEST FLOW EPISODE COMES TO AN END TONIGHT. SO LOW CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY WILL STAY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. SOUTHERLY SURFACE WINDS WILL REMAIN IN THE 10 TO 15 MPH RANGE AS THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S.. WINDS WILL DECOUPLE AS THE NOCTURNAL INVERSION SETS IN AROUND MIDNIGHT AND STRATUS CLOUDS ROLL IN/DEVELOP. A BIT OF A WESTERLY COMPONENT IN THE BOUNDARY WINDS SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL GRADUALLY LOWER P.W.S AND RAISE MAX TEMPS. LOOKING FOR THE DRY LINE TO PUSH INTO NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES NEXT WEEK SETTING OFF A ROUND OF LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. EASTERN COUNTIES WILL BECOME BREEZY WITH RAIN CHANCES NEAR ZERO. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 60 84 63 84 68 321- DRT 66 90 69 90 70 2221 SAT 64 86 67 86 69 11-- .EWX...NONE. 06/01
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Rain of up to 4 inches fell in a two hour period, causing brief flash flooding across the western part of the county. Only minor damage to roads and bridges was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2002
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: 5285491, 5285492.