1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 9, 4:15 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 415 AM CST MON DEC 9 2002 HARD TO SAY EXACTLY WHERE THE COLD FRONT IS...BUT BASED ON WIND DIRECTION...WIND SPEEDS AND DEW POINT TEMPS...WOULD PLACE IT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN MOST COUNTIES OF OUR CWA...MAKING SOUTHWARD PROGRESS INTO CWA CRP. UPPER LOW CURENTLY BETWEEN LBB AND MAF. UPPER JET MAXIMUM ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE TROUGH WITH LFQ ENHANCING LIFT OVER THE FRONT. FLASH FLOOD WATCH CURRENTLY IN PLACE LOOKS GOOD BASED ON LATEST FFG AND BIASED RADAR PRECIP ESTIMATES. WILL CONTINUE WATCH FOR THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 9AM AND EXTEND THE WATCH ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 THROUGH 4PM BASED ON LATEST FFG AND META/RUC QPF. WILL RUN WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST THINKING OF PRECIP ON THURSDAY AS AN UPPER LOW TAKES SHAPE OVER NM AND EJECTS OUT OVER TX...THEN DRY FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. 11/26/23 PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS RB 051/039 057/036 059 720 DRT CB 058/039 062/042 062 400 SAT RB 053/042 059/039 061 720 .EWX...FFA THROUGH 9AM FOR THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY AND THROUGH 4PM FOR EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 610 PM CST SUN DEC 8 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AREAS OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TONIGHT. RAIN WILL POSSIBLY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. SOME FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT. IN ADDITION...AS THUNDERSTORMS FORM LATE TONIGHT AND TOWARD MORNING...SOME HAIL IS POSSIBLE... AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY MORNING...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE CHANCE OF RAIN WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE FROM THE WEST IN THE AFTERNOON MONDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED TUESDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:32 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to 2 inches of rain fell over the northeast part of Bexar County in just under two hours. Soils across the area had remained completely saturated from rainfall since November and flash flooded developed immediately. Minor damage was reported to city and county roads.
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
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