1 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 2:10 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 210 AM CST FRI DEC 13 2002 DRY NORTHWEST UPPER FLOW TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY WILL GIVE WAY TO A NEAR ZONAL FLOW MONDAY AND TUESDAY. MAX TEMPS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND DUE TO DOWNSLOPE WEST WIND IN THE BOUNDARY. MINS A BIT CHILLY TONIGHT THEN GRADUALLY WARMING. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RETURNS FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK AS A BROAD UPPER TROUGH MOVES OUT OF THE ROCKIES. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST SECTIONS BY MIDWEEK. PRELIM NUMBERS... AUS 65 32 69 36 70 0000 SAT 67 35 69 40 69 0000 DRT 69 37 70 38 68 0000 .EWX...NONE. 06/10/JB
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-131200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 525 AM CST THU DEC 12 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS COVERS DEWITT AND LAVACA COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS MORNING OVER THE COASTAL PRAIRIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM NEAR THE COASTAL BEND WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Navidad River crested at Sublime at 26.90 feet on December 13 at 1445CST, where flood stage is 24.0 feet.
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, December 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: 5325971.