The slow moving tropical wave dumped heavy rains for the second night in a row over the Heartland counties of Brown and Coleman counties. Some reports of up to 10 inches in the two day period were noted in these areas.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
The slow moving tropical wave dumped heavy rains for the second night in a row over the Heartland counties of Brown and Coleman counties. Some reports of up to 10 inches in the two day period were noted in these areas. During the late afternoon and early evening, scattered thunderstorms developed in the Concho Valley. One thunderstorm in particular developed over southwest Coke County. This thunderstorm was very slow moving and produced very heavy rains as it moved to the south into northern Tom Green County before dissipating. Rainfall amounts with this thunderstorm ranged from 2 to 5 inches. Farm Road 2034 in southwest Coke county had to be closed for a time due to high water, and a few low water crossings in northwest Tom Green County had water moving through them.
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 8:58 PM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 958 PM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 PER RADAR TRENDS...FAR EASTERN COUNTIES ON HOT SEAT FOR POTENTIAL FLASH FLOODING OVERNIGHT. LEADING EDGE OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR LLANO CURRENTLY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH TOWARD SAN SABA AND BROWN COUNTIES...WHICH HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES. CLUSTER OF STORMS EXTEND WELL SOUTH...ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO. LAKE BROWNWOOD MAY PROVE TO BE THE TROUBLE SPOT...AS LAKE LEVELS CONTINUE TO RISE. MINOR WORDING TWEAKS PLANNED FOR LATE EVENING UPDATE. 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 225 PM DISCUSSION UPPER LEVEL SHEAR AXIS CONTINUES TO DRIFT VERY SLOWLY WESTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...WITH RAINFALL SPIRALING AROUND THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. LATEST RADAR TRENDS SHOW SCATTERED SHOWERS MOVING NORTHWEST ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY...WHILE A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU. RAINFALL REPORTS THIS MORNING OF 5 TO 7 INCHES CAME IN FROM PARTS OF CALLAHAN ...BROWN...AND COLEMAN COUNTIES...WITH LIGHTER TOTALS OF AN INCH OR TWO ACROSS ABOUT THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE AREA. MODELS SIMILAR IN FORECASTING THE SHEAR AXIS TO PRETTY MUCH BISECT WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. 12Z MODELS SUGGEST THAT THERE WILL BE TWO MAIN LOBES TO HELP CONCENTRATE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL JUST NORTH AND JUST SOUTH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. NOT REAL CONFIDENT IN THE MODELS GETTING THIS PLACEMENT EXACTLY CORRECT...ESPECIALLY WITH THE 18Z RUC INDICATING JUST ONE UPPER LOW AND LEAVING IT PARKED NEAR SAN ANGELO. GIVEN ALL OF THE MODELS PERFORMANCE...WILL JUST GO WITH WHAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE...BEST POPS ALONG AND EAST OF THE SHEAR AXIS WITH SLIGHTLY LESSER POPS TO THE WEST. GIVEN THAT MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE AREA ARE ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE RAINS THIS MORNING...AND WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES STILL RUNNING QUITE HIGH...WILL REISSUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND EXPAND IT SLIGHTLY FARTHER TO THE WEST. WILL CONTINUE FAIRLY HIGH POPS INTO THE MORNING...BUT AS THE SYSTEM PUSHES WEST...RAIN CHANCES SHOULD START TO DIMINISH BY THURSDAY NIGHT. STILL...A WARM AND HUMID AIR MASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AND ALTHOUGH MAIN SUPPORT WILL BE GONE...STILL THINK THERE WILL BE SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION THROUGH FRIDAY. EXTENDED WISE...MRF TRIES TO DEVELOP ANOTHER UPPER LOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND DRAG IT SOUTH INTO TEXAS BY TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. MODELS HAVE ENOUGH DIFFICULTY FORECASTING THESE CUTOFF LOWS ACCURATELY OUT TO 48 HOURS...MUCH LESS THE 7TH DAY. WILL HOLD OFF ON INSERTING POPS FOR NOW AND JUST WATCH TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. ABI 068/085/069/088 7523 SJT 069/085/070/088 7523 JCT 070/087/070/089 7523 .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MASON...MENARD... MCCULLOCH... KIMBLE...SAN SABA...BROWN...CALLAHAN...COLEMAN...CONCHO...SCHLEICHER ...SUTTON...TOM GREEN...COKE...AND TAYLOR COUNTIES TONIGHT. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
For the second night in a row, heavy rains produced areas of flooding over the northeast portions of Coleman County.
For the second night in a row, heavy rains have fallen over the northwest portions of Brown County.
Coke County emergency management reported that Farm to Market Road 2034 was closed for a time due to high water.
A slow moving thunderstorm that moved out of Coke County down U.S. Highway 87 produced torrential rains along the highway from near Water Valley to Grape Creek. Rainfall reports of over 2 inches in 30 minutes was common is this area. Several low water crossings in northwest Tom Green county flooded as the storm moved through.
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: 5306783, 5306782, 5306784, 5306785.