2 flash 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 4, 1:45 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
245 PM CDT THU JUL 4 2002
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE EXTENDED THRU FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE
HILL COUNTRY AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
A DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION CONTINUES ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND
ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AS NUMEROUS STREAMS AND RIVERS
REMAIN IN FLOOD. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF
DUE TO SATURATED SOILS.
THE UPPER LEVEL TROF/SHEAR AXIS REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY FROM NEAR
EL INDIO TO ABILENE...WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN LOCATION EXPECTED OVER
THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ONCE AGAIN FIRED
IN THE TROPICAL AIRMASS THANKS TO DAYTIME HEATING. THESE STORMS
WILL STREAM NORTHWARD AND TRAIN ACROSS THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING...GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM HARPER TO SABINAL AND
COTULLA.
THE VORT MAX CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS IS FCST BY THE
MESOETA TO MOVE NORTHWARD THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE RESULT WILL
BE ANOTHER MCS DEVELOPING AND IMPACTING THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA.
MODELS STILL TRY TO DRIFT THIS DISTURBANCE WESTWARD BUT THIS IS HAS
NOT OCCURRED DUE TO THE TRAPPING UPPER RIDGE TO THE NORTH. IT IS
MORE LIKELY THIS UPPER LEVEL FEATURE WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN AND RAIN
ITSELF OUT.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE EXTENDED MODELS/FCST LOOKS WET. THE MRF/AVN
SOLUTIONS TRY TO BRING A BACKDOOR FRONT INTO THE HILL COUNTRY BY THE
LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK...BECOMING STATIONARY.
PRELIM NUMBERS...
AUS 074/092 074/092 073 23222
DRT 072/085 074/090 076 56532
SAT 074/090 075/092 075 55322
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR THE HILL COUNTRY
AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...GENERALLY WEST OF THE
I-35 CORRIDOR.
13/05The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
An additional 2 to 3 inches of rain falling over the southeast portion of the county, near the Karnes County line, caused more flash flooding problems from the mid afternoon into the early evening.
A general 2 inch rain falling over the southwest portion of the county, near the Atascosa County line, produced flash flooding that lasted from mid afternoon into early evening.
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: 5312176, 5312177.