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 5, 3:00 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 400 AM CDT FRI JUL 05 2002 BREAK IN SUBTROPICAL HIGH ALOFT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY AS LOW ALOFT TO THE NW ATTEMPTS TO DRIFT SLOWLY NORTHWARD. AS H7 TO H5 TROF PULLS LOW NORTHWARD LATER TODAY...CHC OF RAIN EXPECTED TO FALL SOME TONIGHT AND THEN CONT FALLING ON SAT. WILL KEEP POPS 20 PCT FOR SATURDAY...IN CASE DAYTIME HEATING SETS OFF A FEW DAYTIME SHRA. BY SAT NIGHT MORE STABLE CONDS SIGNAL VERY LOW POPS. COMPOSITE SOLUTIONS SHOW HIGH NORTH OF S CNTRL TX ON SUNDAY WITH PSBL S/W TROF COMING FM THE EAST OVR AREA IN A PATTERN THAT MAY SUPPORT SLIGHT COOLING ALOFT. AS A RESULT WILL SHOW CHC OF SHRA FOR SUNDAY AND CONTINUE THIS MONDAY. THE TUESDAY WX PATTERN SHOWS SAME WEAKNESS IN HEIGHT FIELD ALOFT FROM EITHER WK WX SYSTEMS THAT COME IN FROM THE E OR NE. COMPOSITE SOLUTIONS THEN SHOW GRADUAL INCREASE IN SUBSIDENCE IN A WED TO FRI AND SAT OF NEXT WEEK TIME FRAME. AS A RESULT WILL SHOW SLOWLY FALLING POPS WED AND THU. WILL SHOW FFA TODAY FOR TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS DUE TO AREA OF RAIN MOVING ACROSS AREA TODAY IN WAKE OF RECENT HEAVY RAINS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 087/073 091/073 091 7221 DRT 087/073 092/075 093 7531 SAT 086/074 091/074 091 7321 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD TODAY FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A GEORGETOWN TO KARNES CITY LINE. 08/19/WR
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Comal River at New Braunfels crested at 19.73 feet on July 8 at 1800CST, where flood stage is 15.0 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: 5306842.