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 3, 2:10 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
310 PM CDT WED JUL 3 2002
UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS REMAINS IN PLACE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
AND THE HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON. THE UPPER RIDGE TO THE NORTH
HAS THIS SYSTEM TRAPPED OVER THE CWFA. THE TROF AXIS HAS DRIFTED
WESTWARD THIS AFTERNOON BRINGING THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH
FLOODING TO THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWFA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
CURRENTLY LOCATED ACROSS THE CWFA WILL WEAKEN THIS EVENING. HOWEVER
ANOTHER VORT MAX IS FCST TO ROTATE AROUND THE UPPER TROF LATE
TONIGHT. THIS WILL KICK OFF ANOTHER MCS OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF
THE CWFA LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THIS PATTERN MAY
REPEAT ITSELF THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING WITH THE MCS DEVELOPING
CLOSER TO THE RIO GRANDE.
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE RECONFIGURED AND REISSUED...CLEARING
THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE CWFA FROM THE WATCH.
PRELIMS...
AUS 073/088 073/089 073 13322
DRT 075/086 075/089 075 13978
SAT 074/088 075/090 075 13532
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND MUCH OF
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
13/04The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Frio River crested at Derby at 19.87 feet on July 7 at 0630CST, where flood stage is 6.0 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: 5311187.