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, 2:10 AM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 310 AM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Guadalupe River crested at Comfort at 31.33 feet on July 4 at 0930CST, where flood stage is 21.0 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: 5311182.