A narrow band of heavy rain, approximately 30 miles wide, developed from southwest Hamilton County northeast across western Bosque, eastern Somervell, western Johnson, and southern Tarrant counties. This rain band produced general one to three inch rains, with isolated totals in flash flood areas near five inches.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
A narrow band of heavy rain, approximately 30 miles wide, developed from southwest Hamilton County northeast across western Bosque, eastern Somervell, western Johnson, and southern Tarrant counties. This rain band produced general one to three inch rains, with isolated totals in flash flood areas near five inches.
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 30, 11:00 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1100 PM CST WED JAN 30 2002
AVIATION DISCUSSION...
ANOTHER BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
NORTHEAST INTO DFW AREA. BELIEVE MOST OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE EAST OF AREA BY 10Z. WILL KEEP A LINGERING CHANCE OF RAIN
AND THUNDERSTORMS TIL 16Z AS THERE MAY BE SOME REDEVELOPMENT IN THE
COLDER AIR AS THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES INTO THE AREA. WINDY THURSDAY
WITH WINDS DIMINISHING BY EARLY EVENING. 59
LATEST MODEL DATA SUGGEST PRECIP MAY LINGER INTO THE MORNING HOURS
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS...A BIT LONGER THAN EARLIER THOUGHT.
WILL UPDATE TO REFLECT THIS TREND.
WE STILL FEEL THAT IT WILL BE A CLOSE CALL...BUT WINTER PRECIP IN
THE FORM OF FREEZING RAIN SHOULD REMAIN CONFINED TO THE FAR NORTHWEST
PART OF NORTH TEXAS. WILL UPDATE THE ADVISORY...BUT WILL NOT CHANGE
ITS COVERAGE. 42
AVIATION DISCUSSION...
STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT ACROSS NORTH TEXAS OVER THE SHALLOW
ARCTIC AIR AT THE SURFACE THROUGH 12Z THURSDAY MORNING. THIS WILL
RESULT IN WIDESPREAD RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE DFW AREA
ALL NIGHT WITH THE RISK OF TSRA BEGINNING AROUND 01Z THIS EVENING.
LIFR CIGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL BE LIKELY THROUGH THE NIGHT. CIGS
WILL BEGIN TO LIFT AROUND MID MORNING THURSDAY...BUT THE NORTH WINDS
WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 AND GUSTY AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM LIFTS
OUT OF THE REGION...AND A SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM BUILDS INTO
NORTH TEXAS. VFR CONDITIONS BY LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AS STRATUS
CLEARS NORTH TEXAS FROM WEST TO EAST. 59
.FWD...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES TXZ091...
TXZ100>101.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Many streets were flooded and water was reported in some houses.
High water closed some streets in south Fort Worth.
Several additional roads were closed due to high water.
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, January 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: 5277984, 5277985, 5277986.