Flash flooding resulted from persistent heavy thunderstorms over the Big Bend and far southwest Texas. Flash flooding remained a threat from the early morning hours through the remainder of the day.
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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 episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
Flash flooding resulted from persistent heavy thunderstorms over the Big Bend and far southwest Texas. Flash flooding remained a threat from the early morning hours through the remainder of the day. At least two motorists stalled their vehicles in high water south of the community of Marfa around sunrise.
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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 2:04 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED CCF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 304 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 KMAF RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS WESTWARD INTO PRESIDIO COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS WEAK UPPER ENERGY MOVING INTO FAR WEST TEXAS FROM MEXICO SUPPORTING THIS EARLY MORNING CONVECTION. UPPER RIDGING WILL STRENGTHEN SOME ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY. HOWEVER...THE SURFACE DRYLINE IS FORECAST TO MOVE LITTLE THIS AFTERNOON...EXTENDING FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE RIO GRANDE. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE UNSTABLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE WITH STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...AND LI/S RANGING FROM -4 TO -6. LIMITING FACTOR FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE WARMING MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES. CONVERGENCE ALONG THE DRYLINE AND WEAK UPPER WAVES MOVING AROUND THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER RIDGE WILL LIKELY HELP INITIATE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR MORNING CONVECTION IN THE SOUTHWEST TO DETERMINE THE INITIAL POP...BUT WILL PLACE THE BEST CHANCES IN THE SOUTHWEST...WITH ISOLATED POPS ACROSS MOST OTHER AREAS. ON TUESDAY...THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS FURTHER NORTH WHICH WILL LIKELY SUPPRESS AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EVEN MORE. ON WEDNESDAY...A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND MOVE SOUTH TO THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN/SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO BY WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE LATEST AVN SHOWS THE FRONT STALLING OUT OVER THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. IMPRESSIVE QPF BEING GENERATED BY THE 00Z AVN ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA ON FRIDAY (AROUND 1.32). IF THIS VERIFIES...THEN LIKELY POPS WOULD BE NEEDED IN THE NORTHEAST. AT THIS TIME...WILL KEEP POPS IN THE CHANCE CATEGORY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NORTHWEST FLOW RETURNS TO THE AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH UPPER RIDGE FURTHER SOUTH INTO MEXICO. THUS...WILL CONTINUE A DRY FORECAST FOR DAYS 6 AND 7. MAF 097/070/097/070 21-- LSA 096/069/096/069 11-- 6R6 095/073/096/073 21-- MRF 089/061/090/061 32-- CNM 101/070/099/070 11-- .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. CLL
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
235 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 PM MARATHON TX WIND DAMAGE
06/09/02 BREWSTER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0945 PM MARATHON TX WIND DAMAGE
06/09/02 BREWSTER 2 OR 3 TRAILERS ROOFS
BLOWN OFF AND UTILITY
POLES DOWNED ON
SOUTHSIDE OF TOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
235 AM CDT MON JUN 10 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 PM MARATHON TX WIND DAMAGE
06/09/02 BREWSTER 2 OR 3 TRAILERS ROOFS
BLOWN OFF AND UTILITY
POLES DOWNED ON
SOUTHSIDE OF TOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Local officials reported that Highway 67 was closed due to high water.
A local radio station reported that two vehicles were stranded in high water which resulted from flash flooding on Highway 67.
Local officials reported that high water covered the intersction of Highways 90 and 67 east of Alpine.
A local rancher reported that a farm road was washed out by flash flooding.
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, June 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: 5301770, 5301768, 5301769, 5301767.