2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 16, 1:23 AM CST, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
223 AM CDT TUE JUL 16 2002
SHORT TERM...CONCUR WITH THE ETA/AVN THAT THE UPPER TROUGH WILL LIFT
SLOWLY NWD TDA...YET STILL CONTRIBUTE TO SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT OVER
THE CWFA. EXPECT THE WEAK BNDRY CURRENTLY OVER THE SRN CWFA TO
PROVIDE SFC FORCING OVER THE CWFA TDA. PROXIMITY SOUNDINGS INDICATE
EXTREMELY MOIST CONDITIONS OVR THE REGION. THE COMBINATION OF
SFC-UPPER FORCING/COPIOUS MSTR WILL LIKELY RESULT IN WIDESPREAD PCPN
OVER THE CWFA TDA. WL MAINTAIN THE FFA FOR THE CWFA THROUGH 0Z WED.
AFTER 0Z...SIGNIFICANT DRYING/UPPER RIDGING EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE.
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CURRENTLY REVEALS THE DRYING ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS RIDGING MOVG WWD ACROSS THE CNTRL GULF. WL FCST AT LEAST LIKELY
POPS OVER THE CWFA TDA...WITH SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER POPS TONIGHT/WED.
EXTENDED...DO NOT ANTICIPATE PCPN THU-SAT...AS THE RIDGE
BUILDS/DRYING DEVELOPS OVER THE REGION. THE MRF PROGS THE FOREGOING
UPPER TROUGH TO ROTATE AROUND THE UPPER RIDGE AND AFFECT THE CWFA
AGAIN BY SUN. WL MAINTAIN A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR CONVECTION SUN-MON.
MARINE...DECENT DYNAMICS IN THE FORM OF UPR DIFLUENCE WL SUSTAIN
WIDESPREAD CONVECTION FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE FCST PERIOD. SOME STORMS
MAY CONTAIN MIX DOWN SOME STRONG WINDS AND WL MENTION THIS IN THE
FCST. HOWEVER...IT DOES APPEAR THAT THESE DYNAMICS WL BEGIN
BREAKING DOWN LATER TDA AND ESPECIALLY TNT. THUS...THE COVERAGE OF
PCPN WL BE ON THE DECLINE. STILL THINK THERE WL BE ENOUGH RESIDUAL
LOW LVL MOISTURE TO KEEP IN ISOLATED POPS ON WED AND THU. IT DOES
APPEAR THAT MARGINAL SCA CONDITIONS WL CONTINUE FOR THE
NEARSHORE/OFFSHORE WATERS FOR AT LEAST TDA WITH SCEC CONDITIONS FOR
THE BAYS. ONSHORE FLOW WL SLOWLY RELAX TO MORE TYPICAL JULY LVLS AS
THE MODERATE LLJ SLOWLY DECREASES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
CRP TE 087/078 090/075 093 87732
VCT TE 085/075 091/074 094 87632
LRD TE 087/076 092/075 095 87643
.CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TXZ229>234-239>247 TIL 0Z WED.
SCA GMZ250-255-270-275.
87 (SYNOPTIC)
80 (MARINE)The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Street Flooding reported by Law Enforcement. A foot of standing water.
Law Enforcement report numerous street and road closure.
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: 5315384, 5315385.