On Sunday, July 14, another disturbance came around the low and further south. This caused showers and thunderstorms to evolve further south, and brought a large area of showers and thunderstorms to not only the Texas Hill Country, also across South Central Texas.
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The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
On Sunday, July 14, another disturbance came around the low and further south. This caused showers and thunderstorms to evolve further south, and brought a large area of showers and thunderstorms to not only the Texas Hill Country, also across South Central Texas. Strong gusty winds accompanied some of the thunderstorms, with wind gusts of 35 to near 50 mph. Heavy rains in areas brought more localized flooding problems and caused rivers and streams to increase flow again. The showers and thunderstorms became numerous enough in the afternoon of Sunday the 14th to form a mesoscale boundary that moved southward across South Central Texas and to the coastal plains further south the night of the 14th and morning of the 15th.
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 14, 10:00 AM CST, 2 hours earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 11 AM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002 UPPER LOWS CENTERED OVER ERN OK AND AR THIS MORNING EXPECTED TO REMAIN NEARLY STNRY THRU MON. ON TUES LOW MAY DRIFT WEST SOME. THIS WILL PROVIDE CONTD CHC OF RAIN FROM SHRA AND TSRA OVR S CNTRL TX FOR NOT ONLY THIS AFTERNOON...ALSO FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. MOUNDAY AND TUESDAY...ENVIRONMENT LOOKS IDEAL FOR PRODUCING RAINS FROM SHRA AND TSRA. AS A RESULT THE RISKS OF FLOODING CONT THRU TUESDAY. BY WEDNESDAY...MULTI MODEL AVG SUGGEST LOW GETS PULLED NORTH AND GRADUALLY FILLS...CAUSING THE CHC OF RAIN TO DECREASE ON WEDNESDAY. BY LATE THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEKEND SUBSIDENCE PREVAILS OVR S CNTRL TX WITH THE CHC OF RAIN LOW. PRELIMS... AUS 089/072/089/073/090 75657 DRT 095/074/095/075/095 45555 SAT 089/074/089/074/092 55657 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TX HILL COUNTRY AND PARTS OF CNTRL AND S CNTRL TX THRU TONIGHT. 08/19
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Up to 3 inches of rain fell in 2 hours over western Gillespie County, producing brief flash flooding through the early afternoon.
Up to 3 inches of rain fell in just under 2 hours in the southern part of Kendall County near Boerne. Brief flash flooding developed and continued through the mid afternoon.
General 1 to 2 inch rainfall over Lee County, along with isolated totals of as much as 4 inches, caused brief flash flooding across the county.
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: 5312261, 5312262, 5312263.