1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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, 8:00 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 900 PM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 CURRENT WEATHER ANALYSIS... A SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE EXISTS OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW IS OVER SOUTHERN TEXAS. SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS CONTINUE TO BRING MOISTURE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FROM THE GULF. MODEL GUIDANCE ANALYSIS... MODEL GUIDANCE IS IN AGREEMENT THAT THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL SLOWLY DRIFT WEST AND BE OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS REGION TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. OUTLOOK... LOOK FOR RAIN ACTIVITY OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TO CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY AND THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FORECAST WARNING AREA WILL ALSO CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY. WITH UPPER LEVEL LOW DRIFTING WEST...RAIN ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS REGION AND DECREASE SLIGHTLY OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED UNTIL LATE THIS WEEK. WILL UPDATE THE 4PM ZONE FORECAST...ADJUSTING MORNING LOW TEMPERATURES. WILL RE-ISSUE SHORTLY. TO THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DROUGHT...IS IT OVER ? NO. IT IS ONLY MOMENTARILY SUSPENDED UNTIL IT STOPS RAINING AND THEN THE DROUGHT WILL RETURN. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... ETA AND AVN IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN SLOWLY SHIFTING THE UPR LOW AND HEAVIEST RAIN FURTHER WEST OVER THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS BY TUE NIGHT/WED. HOWEVER...IN THE SHORT TERM IT APPEARS CENTRAL AND ERN CWA WILL BE FOCUS FOR HVY RAIN WITH DIFFLUENCE ALOFT WITH SCT SHRA/TSRA FEEDING INTO S CNTRL TX WHERE A SHALLOW COOL SFC RDG/BOUNDARY HAS DEVELOPED FM THE MCS. ETA PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT QPF AMOUNTS OVER THE CENTRAL/ERN CWA THIS EVENING/OVERNIGHT WHILE AVN SHOWING A SIMILAR QPF AREA BUT LIGHTER AMOUNTS...EVEN THOUGH AVN BETTER INITIALIZED WITH PWS. FFA WILL BE EXTENDED THRU TUE ON THE AFTN PACKAGE WITH A SLOW SHIFT OF HEAVY RAIN TOWARDS THE DRIER WESTERN COUNTIES BY WED/THU. UPR RDG TO BUILD INTO THE AREA IN THE LATE WEEK AND WEEKEND WITH RAIN CHCS DROPPING TO SLIGHT CHC BY SAT/SUN...INCREASING TO CHC ON MONDAY AS AN EASTERLY WAVE ARRIVES. PRELIMS... AUS TE 072/085 072/088 073 8643 DRT ET 073/085 072/085 074 3454 SAT TE 072/084 073/087 074 8643 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ENTIRE CWA THRU TUE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Medina River crested at San Antonio near US281 (South) at 55.65 feet on July 4 at 1515CST, where flood stage is 20.0 feet. The Medina River crested at Somerset at 41.84 feet on July 6 at 1200CST. Flood stage is 18.0 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: 5311183.