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 2, 9:35 AM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1035 AM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 MCS CONTINUES OVER THE CWFA THIS MORNING. THE VORT MAX/CIRCULATION IS CENTERED OVER UVALDE AND REAL COUNTIES WERE TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE OCCURRING. RAINFALL RATES OF 3 TO 4 INCHES AN HOUR WERE BEING ESTIMATED BY RADAR OVER THESE COUNTIES. LATEST MESOETA SHIFTS THE UPPER LOW SLOWLY SOUTHWEST TO NEAR EL INDIO BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. IF THIS MOVEMENT OCCURS HEAVY RAINS WILL SHIFT WESTWARD. THIS AFTERNOON THE MCS WILL WEAKEN...HOWEVER ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP JUST SOUTH OF OUR CWFA WHERE AFTERNOON HEATING WILL INTERACT WITH THE DEEP-LAYERED TROPICAL AIRMASS. ONCE THESE STORMS FORM...THEY WILL MOVE NORTHWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO CURRENT FCST. 13/09 ...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE AREAWIDE TODAY AND TONIGHT. UPPER TROUGH MEANDERING ACROSS AREA TODAY WILL COMBINE WITH RICH MOISTURE PLUMES OFF THE GULF TO ONCE AGAIN PRODUCE AN EXCELLENT CHANCE OF TROPIC-LIKE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL BEGIN MOVING WEST LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WITH THE FOCUS SHIFTING WESTWARD INTO THE WESTERN HILLS AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS. BY INDEPENDENCE DAY...MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY SHIFTS WEST WITH UPPER RIDGING BUILDING IN FROM THE EAST. EASTERLIES RETURN OVER THE WEEKEND WITH A MINOR WAVE MOVING THROUGH EARLY MONDAY. GRADUAL RIDGING ALOFT NEXT TUESDAY AS MAMMOTH BLOCKY RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE WESTERN U.S.. PRELIMS... AUS TE 080/071 088/072 093 +522 DRT TT 083/072 084/074 092 5754 SAT TE 082/073 088/073 092 8532 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE CWA THRU TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
730 AM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 AM NEW BRAUNFELS TX FLASH FLOOD
07/02/02 COMAL SEVERAL ROADS WEST OF NEW
BRAUNFELS FLOODED
BY WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE
0619 AM COUNTYWIDE TX FLASH FLOOD
07/02/02 GILLESPIE ALL LOW AREAS AND LOW
WATER CROSSINGS FLOODED
SH 290 CLOSED EAST OF
STONEWALL
BY EMC
0640 AM BRACKETTVILLE TX FLASH FLOOD
07/02/02 KINNEY US 90 CLOSED IN BRACKETTVILLE
DUE TO FLOODING
RELAYED THROUGH VAL VERDE
LAW ENFORCEMENT
CFMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Blanco River crested at Wimberly at 25.71 feet on July 5 at 0830CST. Flood stage is 13.0 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: 5311767.