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, 9:10 AM CST, 47 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1010 AM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 HISTORIC RECORD-BREAKING FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THERE IS NOTHING TO ADD TO THE EARLIER DISCUSSION THAT HASNT ALREADY BEEN SAID BEFORE. WILL LEAVE THE ZONE PACKAGE AS IS SINCE IT COVERS QUITE WELL THE SITUATION. ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE TEMPORARY BREAKS IN THE RAIN TODAY...MORE IS FORECAST TONIGHT. UNTIL THE UPPER LOW MOVES WELL AWAY FROM THE CWA...RAINS IN GENERAL AND TRAINING RAINS IN PARTICULAR WILL PERSIST OVER ALREADY SUPER-SATURATED GROUND. RUNOFF INTO FLOODED CREEKS AND RIVERS THAT HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FLOOD STAGES THIS HIGH IN RECENT MEMORY WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST AREA THIS WEEKEND AND WELL INTO NEXT WEKK. SITUATION REMAINS A SIGNIFICANT HYDROLOGIC EVENT AND RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS ARE BEING ISSUED PERIODICALLY. SEE THESE RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION IN YOUR AREA. .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL OF CWA TODAY AND TONIGHT. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION BREAK IN SUBTROPICAL HIGH ALOFT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO FORM RAINS THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON...AS LOW ALOFT TO THE NW ATTEMPTS TO DRIFT SLOWLY NORTHWARD. THIS TREND HELPS WARM AND MOIST ADVECTION TO EFFICIENTLY CREATE MORE RAIN THE REST OF THE MORNING AND PARTS OF THE AFFTERNOON...AS HAS BEEN ON GOING IN THE PREDAWN HOURS. THIS JULYS RAINFALL PATTERN REFLECTS A SIMILIAR JULY RAINFALL PATTERN THAT OCCURRED IN JULY 1976...WHEN RAINY WEATHER AFFECTED THE AREA FROM AROUND JULY 3 TO JULY 20...1976. AS MID LAT TROF OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS 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...BECAUSE 00Z AND 12Z JUL 5TH ANALYSIS OF DATA ALOFT SHOW COOL AIR ALOFT OVR SE U.S. PSBLY DRIFTING WEST NEAR AND ABOVD 10,000 FT OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SUNDAY. AS A RESULT WILL SHOW CHC OF SHRA FOR SUNDAY AND CONTINUE THIS TREND 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 SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS DUE TO AREA OF RAIN MOVING ACROSS AREA TODAY IN WAKE OF RECENT HEAVY RAINS. THIS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. 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 SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 08/19/WR
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Pedernales River crested at Fredericksburg at 27.40 feet on July 5 at 1315CST, where flood stage is 22.0 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: 5306843.