2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 9:30 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 930 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 DECIDED TO HOIST SCA FOR NEARSHORE WATERS. PORTS DATA SHOWS 22 KTS AT PLEASURE PIER. GLS 19KTS...PSX 18KTS. PREV DISC... SVR TSTM WATCH JUST ISSUED BY SPC. LN OF STORMS ESPECIALLY STG ARND WACO AND SAT. MOVEMENT IS RAPID...50 MPH. ALREADY UPDATED ZFP AND SPS. THINK INSTAB AND DYNAMICS SHD WEAKEN ENOUGH OVERNIGHT TO ALLOW ACTIVITY TO WANE A BIT. NO CHG TO REST OF FCST. .HGX...SCEC FOR THE BAYS. SCA FOR THE GULF WATERS 0-60NM. 46/43/35/39 PRELIMS... CLL RU 060/065 046/072 045 +60 IAH TU 069/071 049/073 046 660 GLS TU 067/072 055/067 052 460
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-201200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 400 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND COLD FRONT BRING A SQUALL LINE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS FROM DAMAGING WINDS...ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT AREA IS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10. THE PRIMARY RISK PERIOD IS FROM MIDNIGHT TO 6 AM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV NEWS...OR VISIT US ON THE WEB AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/HGX FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS... STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 31/JWZ
TXZ163-164-176-177-195>198-210>212-226-235-200600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 746 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GROVETON TO LAKE TEXANA. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IN THE WATCH...AUSTIN...BRAZOS ...BURLESON...COLORADO...GRIMES...HOUSTON...JACKSON...MADISON ...TRINITY...WALKER...WALLER...WASHINGTON...WHARTON. COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION... CROCKETT...HUNTSVILLE...MADISONVILLE...EDNA...COLUMBUS AND BRENHAM. A COLD FRONT IS PUSHING EAST TOWARD THE REGION. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. THE COMBINATION OF WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY HAS CAUSED SOME OF THE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. THIS THREAT WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST IN THE WATCH AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA LATE THIS EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. A WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SEVERE WEATHER IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...MOVE INSIDE TO A REINFORCED STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CONSIDER MOVING YOUR VEHICLE INTO A GARAGE IF ITS AVAILABLE IN CASE LARGE HAIL DEVELOPS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff reported heavy roof damage to the Caldwell Elementary and Intermediate schools located on CR 307, also two trailers and a barn were destroyed and trees blown down just north of Caldwell.
Trees blown down in North Zulch and in Normangee, reported by Sheriff.
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, March 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: 5292076, 5292077.