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 15, 2:18 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 218 AM CST SUN DEC 15 2002 .NOW THROUGH TUESDAY...PROGRESSIVE WEAK SYSTEMS WILL BRING AC/CI TO THE REGION WHILE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE GRADUALLY INCREASES. WESTERLY BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS WILL KEEP MAX TEMPS A BIT ABOVE NORMAL TODAY AND SUNDAY. ETA AND FWC MAX TEMPS APPEAR TOO WARM SINCE AC/CI CAN SUPPRESS WARM UP. SLANTED LOW LEVEL JET WILL KEEP MOST LOW CLOUDINESS CONFINED TO SOUTHEAST WEDGE OF COUNTIES. .EXTENDED...A BROAD UPPER TROUGH MOVES FROM THE EASTERN PACIFIC TO THE ROCKIES WEDNESDAY AND CENTRAL U.S. THURSDAY. THE ACCOMPANYING PACIFIC FRONT WILL GENERATE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, MAINLY EASTERN 2/3. MAX TEMPS. BRIEF NORTHWEST FLOW BECOMES ZONAL FRIDAY AS ANOTHER LOW DROPS SOUTHEAST ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST. PRELIM NUMBERS AUS 71 48 71 50 70 0000 SAT 71 52 72 50 70 000- DRT 74 47 74 47 74 0000 .EWX...NONE. 06/08/JB
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 505 AM CST SAT DEC 14 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .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 Strane Park at 25.13 feet on December 15 at 2115CST, 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: 5325973.