3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 10:35 AM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1135 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...AVIATION DISCUSSION... WITH THE UPPER LEVEL STORM QUASI STATIONARY NORTHWEST OF ABILENE...WE WILL ONCE AGAIN HAVE WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHFOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...DISSIPATING BY 03-04Z. OUTSIDE OF MVFR TO IFR IN SHRA/TSRA...SCT-BKN HIGH CLOUDS AND LIGHT SOUTHEAST OR LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS...EXCEPT GUSTY IN TSRA. 59 ...PREVIOUS PUBLIC DISCUSSION... THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE THE WEATHER ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. WILL KEEP THE BEST POPS...50-60 PERCENT... IN THE WEST...AND 30S-40S ELSEWHERE. RAINFALL COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. WILL NEED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ACROSS THE WESTERN COUNTIES...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A BRECKENRIDGE... TO GATESVILLE LINE. #58 FCSTID = 58 DFW 92 73 93 74 / 40 20 40 20 ACT 93 72 93 73 / 40 20 40 20 PRX 92 72 93 73 / 30 0 40 20 DTO 91 72 93 73 / 40 20 40 20 TKI 91 72 93 73 / 40 20 40 20 DAL 92 73 93 74 / 40 20 40 20 TRL 92 73 93 73 / 30 0 40 20 CRS 93 72 93 73 / 40 20 40 20 TPL 93 72 93 73 / 40 20 40 20 .FWD...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY ZONES TXZ129>130...TXZ141>143... TXZ156>157.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
FM 1864 closed due to high water.
the Interstate 20 access road was flooded.
Many county roads were washed out. Many crops were washed out or flooded from the heavy rain.
A tree was blown down by high winds.
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: 5304414, 5304415, 5304416, 5304417.