Flash Flood in Texas, December 9, 2002

Name: Flash Flood in Texas, December 9, 2002
Start: 2002-12-09T08:00
End: 2002-12-09T09:00
Location: Texas

December 9, 2002 · NWS CRP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 Dec 9, 2:28 AM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 2:28 AM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before

COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
228 AM CST MON DEC 9 2002

SATELLITE SHOWING UPPER LOW MOVING ACROSS WEST TEXAS.  FIRST MAIN
IMPULSE OVER CENTRAL TEXAS ATTM...WITH ANOTHER FURTHER WEST NEAR BIG
BEND AREA.  ALTHOUGH MAIN ENERGY FROM SYSTEM WILL BE TO THE NORTH OF
THE AREA...SUFFICIENT ENERGY IS AVAILABLE ALOFT TO BRING SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THIS MORNING...TAPERING OFF IN THE
AFTERNOON.  TWO MAIN QUESTIONS ARE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING AND TODAYS
TEMPERATURES. MSAS SHOWS THETA-E AXIS BEGINNING TO SHIFT INTO THE
GULFMEX AND SATELLITE IS STARTING TO CONFIRM THIS.  STILL...THERE
WILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE AROUND TO GENERATE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS
THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING...AND RADAR IS SHOWING AREAS OF RAIN
STARTING TO FILL IN.  AT THIS TIME...WILL JUST KEEP THE FLOOD WATCH
FOR THE EASTERN COUNTIES AS IT IS ALREADY OUT AND THAT IS WHERE THE
RAINFALL HAS BEEN CONCENTRATED IN THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS.  MOISTURE
MORE LIMITED FURTHER WEST AND RAINFALL HAS BEEN SPARCE SO WILL NO
INCLUDE WATCH THERE.  HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL LIKELY BE EARLY
THIS MORNING BEFORE DEVELOPING LOW IN RIO GRANDE VALLEY MOVES EAST
AND MOVES COOLER AIR DOWN.

CLOUDS WILL GRADUALLY LESSEN TONIGHT WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES BY
MORNING.  SHOULD SEE NO RAIN TIL THURSDAY WHEN ANOTHER UPPER LOW
MOVES INTO TEXAS (AGAIN BEST LIFT TO THE NORTH) AND MOISTURE
SUFFICIENT FOR PRECIP...MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE THUNDER COASTAL ZONES.
ANOTHER FRONT FRIDAY...MORE PACIFIC IN NATURE SO MAIN EFFECTS WILL
BE IN THE NIGHTTIME LOWS.  WILL KEEP FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY DRY.
MODIFIED TEMPERATURES IN THE EXTENDED PACKAGE BASED ON TIMING AND
NATURE OF FRONT.

PRELIMS...1ST PERIOD HIGHS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
CRP TB 057/044 061/045 065 9-000
NGP    059/048 061/050 065
ALI TB 056/043 062/043 065 70000
VCT TB 052/040 059/040 063 +1000
LRD TB 055/043 061/044 064 50000
RKP TB 056/045 060/046 063 +1000

MARINE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE
BAYS AND WATERS THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AS A SHORTWAVE AND COLD
FRONT MAKES ITS WAY ACROSS THE AREA. SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE STRONG AT TIMES. EXPECT COLD FRONT TO MOVE OVER THE WATERS
BETWEEN 12Z AND 18Z. WILL CONTINUE WITH SCA CONDITIONS FOR ALL ZONES
TODAY AND TONIGHT DUE TO STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BY MID WEEK. MOISTURE PROFILES
NOT AS DEEP WITH NEXT SYSTEM...SO WILL ONLY CARRY SLIGHT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. DRIER AIR RETURNS BY FRIDAY.

.CRP...FFA GMZ232>234-242>247 THRU NOON.
       SCA GMZ270-275.

86/GW...71/DW

Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 9, 5:56 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before

TXZ229>234-239>247-091800-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
556 AM CST MON DEC 9 2002

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING
AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT MOVE THROUGH THE
AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE STRONG.

A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS DUE TO
MODERATE TO STRONG ONSHORE FLOW.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

ANOTHER COASTAL TROUGH AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BRING A
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY. MOISTURE WILL DECREASE BY FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Nueces

When: December 9, 8:00 AM CST to 9:00 AM CST
Where: Nueces County, Robstown
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 27.735, -97.516 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several streets reported 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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, December 2002

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: 5324053.