Texas, 2002Flash Flood in Texas, June 27, 2002
June 27, 2002 · NWS EWX · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jun 27, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
305 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2002
ATMOSPHERE RECOVERING-DESTABILIZING QUICKLY THIS AFTN ESPECIALLY
OVER THE NRN HILL COUNTRY AND PARTS SOUTH CENTRAL TX WHERE STG SFC
HEATING HAS OCCURRED. GOOD SFC CONVERGENCE ALSO EVIDENT ALONG A WK
BOUNDARY OVER THE NRN HILL COUNTRY AND COMBINED WITH PSBL REMNANTS
OF MCV S OF SJT WILL LIKELY SEE ANOTHER MCS DEVELOP THIS TIME ACRS
THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND HILL COUNTRY AND MOVG SWD THIS EVENING.
SELY LOW LEVEL INFLOW WAS ALSO INCREASING FROM THE COASTAL PLAINS
TWDS THE BOUNDARY. WITH THE COOL(-8) NLY H5 FLOW AND WARM MOIST
SELY INFLOW THIS EVENING...SVR THREAT WILL CONT TO BE LARGE HAIL AND
DOWNBURST DOWNBURST WINDS. NLY FLOW TO WEAKEN FRI AS UPR LOW OVR
EAST TX OPENS...RESULTING IN A NE-SW TROF OVER THE AREA FRI...
PINCHING OFF AS WEAK LOW OVER THE VALLEY BY SAT AND CONTG TO MOV
SLOWLY WEST OVER THE WEEKEND. WILL CONT LOW CHC POPS OVER WEEKEND
WITH THE UPR TROF OVERHEAD...THEN CHCS DIMINISHING TO SLGT CHC BY
EARLY NEXT WEEK INTO MID WEEK...AS A SLIGHT WEAKNESS ALOFT REMAINS
OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE. 01/26
PRELIMS...
AUS BB 069/094 070/094 071 4433
DRT BB 075/098 076/099 076 4333
SAT BB 072/095 073/095 074 4433
.EWX...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:10 PM CST, 3 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
310 PM CDT THU JUN 27 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0755 PM MANSFIELD DAM AUSTIN TX 80 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/26/02 TRAVIS REPORTED BY DAVIS WIND
RECORDER
DCFlash Flood, Kerr
- When
- June 27, 5:10 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County, Kerrville
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 30.062, -99.350 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Amateur radio operators reported nearly 2 inches of rain falling in less than 30 minutes in the Kerrville area. As a result, low water crossings were flooded for almost two hours.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 27, 20021 death · 1 injured · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, June 27, 20021 death · 1 event
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, June 27, 2002$687,000 · 50 kt wind · 9 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 27, 2002$400,000 · 50 kt wind · 9 events
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 27, 2002$241,000 · 56 kt wind · 18 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New York, June 27, 2002$180,000 · 11 events
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 27, 2002$250,000 · 100 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 27, 20024 injured · $50,000 · 55 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 27, 20021 injured · $44,000 · 50 kt wind · 11 events
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 27, 2002$101,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 27, 2002$75,000 · 3 events
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 27, 2002$50,000 · 1 event
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: 5294205.