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 Jul 1, 8:55 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 955 AM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 NEARLY STATIONARY UPR LOW/TROF AXIS LOCATED OVER THE RIO GRANDE CONTG DEEP MOIST SLY FLOW ACRS THE THE ERN TWO THIRDS OF THE CWA WITH LITTLE CHANGE THRU WED...EXCEPT FOR A PSBL SLIGHT SHIFT TOWARDS THE WEST ACCORDING TO THE LATEST MESOETA/ETA. STREAM OF SCT SHRA/TSRA FROM THE MIDDLE COASTAL PLAINS FEEDING/MERGING INTO THE MCS OVR S CNTRL TX. EARLY MORNING FORECAST PRETTY MUCH HAS SITUATION COVERED AND NOT BIG CHANGES PLANNED ATTM. 01&13 PREVIOUS DISC... WILL REISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING THE HILL COUNTRY AREA FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. UPPER AIR TROUGH AXIS NEAR A OUN...MTY LINE WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY. UPPER DISTURBANCES ALONG TROUGH AXIS HELPING DEVELOP CONVECTION ALONG LOWER COAST AND MOVING NORTH TOWARD SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AVN HINTS THIS DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT LIKELY. MOST AREAS EAST OF I35 ARE SATURATED SO RAPID RUNOFF EXPECTED. TRAINING OF CONVECTION ALSO A THREAT. AS UPPER RIDGING GRADUALLY BUILDS IN FROM THE EAST AND UPPER TROUGH MIGRATES WEST...PROBABILITIES SHOULD BEGIN TO FALL RAPIDLY AND BY THE 4TH OF JULY...ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST BY THEN. LITTLE DYNAMICS BY NEXT WEEKEND WITH ONLY ISOLATEDS A POSSIBILITY. .EWX...CONTG FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU TONIGHT ENTIRE CWA.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Medina River crested at Elmendorf at 63.16 feet on July 6 at 0000CST, where flood stage is 35.0 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, July 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: 5311464.