Name: Flooding in Texas, June 27, 2002
Start: 2002-06-27T03:00
End: 2002-06-27T10:00
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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Wind
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 happened

The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.

Between three and six inches of rain fell in a few hours, resulting in street flooding of the Orange and Beaumont areas.

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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 1:35 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:35 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
235 AM CDT THU JUN 27 2002

CURRENTLY...A THUNDERSTORM WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING
RIGHT ON TOP OF NWS OFFICE. LOCAL NWS RADARS SHOWING OTHER SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST
TEXAS AND NORTHWEST GULF IN REGION WHERE MSAS INDICATING GOOD
SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. THIS ACTIVITY IS HEADING OFF TO THE
NORTHEAST.

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOW UPPER LEVEL LOW HAS
OPENED TO A TROF EXTENDING FROM ARKANSAS DOWN THROUGH EASTERN TEXAS.
ATMOSPHERE STILL VERY MOIST WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AROUND 2
INCHES (WHICH GIVES THE AREA AN ANOMALY OF 130 PERCENT OF THE NORMAL
1.5 IN) AND MEAN RELATIVE HUMIDITY AT OR ABOVE 80 PERCENT. GOES
SOUNDING IMAGERY ALSO SHOWS PWAT AT OR ABOVE 2 INCHES EXTENDING
SOUTHWARD INTO THE GULF.

UPPER LEVEL TROF/SHEAR AXIS WILL STAY JUST EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA
TODAY AND FRIDAY. SINCE FORECAST AREA WILL BE ON EAST SIDE OF TROF...
WINDS WILL BE FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST THROUGHOUT THE
ATMOSPHERE. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO PULL RICH GULF MOISTURE WITH PWAT
AT OR ABOVE 2 INCHES ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. CONVECTIVE AND
TRIGGER TEMPS AGAIN ON THE LOW SIDE WITH VALUES IN THE LOW TO MID
80S. THIS ALONG WITH VORT MAXS ROTATING AROUND TROF AND ACROSS THE
FORECAST AREA...NUMEROUS MESOSCALE SURFACE BOUNDARIES AND DIVERGENT
PATTERN IN THE UPPER LEVELS...ALL POINT TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WITH LIKELY POPS ON FRIDAY.

TROPICAL DOWNPOURS WITH RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL
BE POSSIBLE IN SOME LOCATIONS. FORTUNATELY...LATEST LOOK AT RIVER
DATA SHOWS LEVELS WELL BELOW FLOOD STAGE. HOWEVER...WITH THESE
RAINFALL RATES...MINOR URBAN TYPE FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AND
WILL ISSUE SPS TO COVER THIS AND MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY
RAINFALL IN THE ZONES.

SHEAR AXIS WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN AND PUSH OFF TO THE WEST OVER THE
WEEKEND. THUS...COVERAGE OF ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN TO LESSEN. STILL WILL
SEE BERMUDA HIGH RIDGING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AT THE SURFACE
PROVIDING MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW AND CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS INTO NEXT WEEK.

.LCH...NONE.

.PRELIM NUMBERS...
     TDY   FRI   SAT  T F S
AEX 86/70 86/71 88/71 846353
BPT 84/73 84/73 86/73 856353
LCH 83/72 85/73 86/73 856353
LFT 85/72 85/72 87/72 856353

7-RUA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:55 AM CST, 5 minutes before

LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-272100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
355 AM CDT THU JUN 27 2002

...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE TODAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY...

A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM IN COMBINATION WITH AN
UNSTABLE TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY.

ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALLOW ANY THUNDERSTORM
THAT DEVELOPS TO PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR.
LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE
IN AREAS WHERE THESE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OCCUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER UPDATES.

RUA

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Jefferson

When: June 27, 3:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
Where: Jefferson County, Countywide
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 29.854, -94.153 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Orange

When: June 27, 3:00 AM CST to 10:00 AM CST
Where: Orange County, Countywide
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 30.121, -93.894 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, June 2002

Sources

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: 5302151, 5302152.