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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 12:30 AM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 130 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 CURRENTLY...SMALL CONVECTIVE COMPLEX CONTINUES TO PROPAGATE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA. TOPS ARE ALREADY WARMING AND THIS LIKELY WILL NOT BE A FACTOR AFTER PACKAGE ISSUANCE. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY PLACES UPPER LOW OVER CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. THIS FEATURE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT EAST TODAY TOWARD WEST TEXAS... PROVIDING SOME UPPER SUPPORT THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY MISSING YESTERDAY OVER MOST OF THE AREA. ATMOSPHERE IS STILL VERY MOIST WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES NEAR 1.50 INCHES ON THE SOUTH PLAINS. UPPER DIFLUENT AREA ASSOCIATED WITH LOW CIRCULATION SHOULD PROVIDE FORCING IN UNSTABLE AIR MASS TODAY. ALSO SHOULD SEE MORE LATE DAY CONVECTION ON HIGHER TERRAIN TO WEST PROPAGATING EASTWARD INTO LOW LEVEL INFLOW... MUCH LIKE NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY PAST TWO NIGHTS. WILL GRADUALLY TAPER POPS BACK TOWARD SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS ATMOSPHERE DRIES AND UPPER FEATURES SUPPORTING DEEP CONVECTION BECOME MORE DIFFUSE. LAPSE RATES ARE NOT THAT STEEP SO WITH SOME DRYING AND LESS UPPER SUPPORT...COVERAGE OF CONVECTION SHOULD WANE. UPPER HIGH WILL BUILD IN TO OUR NORTHWEST...OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND GREAT BASIN...TOWARD MID WEEK WITH UPPER FLOW BECOMING MORE NORTHEASTERLY. STILL HINT OF A FRONT SOMEWHERE IN THE AREA TUE AND WED...BUT THAT IS BEYOND 120 HOURS SO CONFIDENCE NOT THAT HIGH. DRIER AND WARMER TOWARD END OF NEXT WEEK WITH MAMMOTH RIDGE CENTERED OVER UTAH AND COLORADO. CURRENT EXTENDED HAS ABOVE HANDLED WELL...THUS NO CHANGES. PRELIMS FOLLOW. FRIONA 81/63/82/63 6764 TULIA 82/65/83/65 6754 LUBBOCK 82/65/84/67 6754 BROWNFIELD 81/66/84/67 6764 CHILDRESS 82/68/85/70 7653 ASPERMONT 84/70/86/71 7653 .LUB...NONE. JAMES
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several Farm-to-Market roads across the central and southeastern portion of the county were flooded.
Portions of Highway 83 were flooded and barricaded.
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: 5303811, 5303810.