3 flash flood, 1 flood, 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 2, 3:00 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 300 AM CST SUN NOV 02 2002 .DISCUSSION...AN AREA OF BROAD LOW PRESSURE IS PRODUCING DISORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG THE MEXICAN COAST FROM NEAR THE GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC TO MANZANILLO AND OFFSHORE FOR A COUPLE HUNDRED MILES. SOME OF THE ASSOCIATED MOISTURE IS ADVECTING ACROSS MEXICO AND OVER SOUTH TEXAS. FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS...COASTAL TROUGHING IS CREATING SOME LOW LEVEL SURFACE CONVERGENCE AND...COUPLED WITH PERSISTENT HIGH ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE...SHOWERS OFFSHORE CONTINUE. THIS WEAKNESS WILL HELP KEEP SHOWERS GOING THROUGH TODAY. BY MONDAY...COASTAL TROUGHING IS STILL AROUND...AND THE ARRIVAL OF SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE DESCENDING ACROSS TEXAS...WILL ADD LOW LEVEL LIFT...ENHANCING RAIN CHANCES AGAIN ACROSS THE COUNTY WARNING AND FORECAST AREA. A SHORT WAVE IN THE SOUTHERN STREAM ARRIVES OVER CENTRAL TEXAS ON THE HEELS OF MONDAYS HIGH PRESSURE...DESTABILIZING THE ATMOSPHERE AND RAISING THE POTENTIAL FOR EVEN MORE RAIN MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. AS THE SHORT WAVE MOVES THROUGH...RIDGING AMPLIFIES AGAIN OUT WEST...WITH ANOTHER AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE SPILLING SOUTH INTO TEXAS BY LATE TUESDAY AND EARLY WEDNESDAY. THIS HIGH WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO FINALLY BRING DECREASING CLOUDINESS AND LIGHTER WINDS BY THURSDAY... WITH LARGER DIURNAL TEMPERATURE SWINGS AS WELL. LIGHT WINDS WILL GIVE WAY TO RETURN FLOW ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...WITH INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND COASTAL WATERS SHOWERS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .MARINE...SEAS 7 FEET OFFSHORE WITH SOUTHEAST TO EAST WINDS 5 TO 10 KNOTS. MSAS SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES A COASTAL TROUGH ALONG THE LOWER TX COAST THIS MORNING WITH LIGHT WESTERLY WINDS OVER THE LAGUNA MADRE AND LIGHT EASTERLY WINDS OFFSHORE. SCATTERED CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS TROUGH. BELIEVE WINDS TODAY SHOULD ALLOW SEAS TO SUBSIDE BELOW 7 FEET AND WILL REPLACE SCA OFFSHORE THIS MORNING WITH SCEC. ALSO...HIGH SURF AND RIP CURRENT POTENTIAL SHOULD DIMINISH AND THEREFORE WILL NOT NEED TO CONTINUE ADVISORIES TODAY. THE COASTAL TROUGH IS PROGGED TO LIFT NORTHEAST TONIGHT AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES THE COASTAL BEND. THIS WILL PROVIDE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS THROUGH MONDAY AS THE BOUNDARY STALLS OVER THE COASTAL BEND. A 500MB SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S. MON WILL MOVE ACROSS TX TUESDAY. THIS WILL BRING A FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH DEEP SOUTH TX TUES MORNING AND INTO THE WESTERN GULF TUES NIGHT. THIS SHOULD BRING AN END TO THE CONVECTION BUT WILL BRING STRONG NORTH WINDS IN ITS WAKE. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS TX WEDNESDAY AND SETTLE OVER SOUTH TX THURSDAY. THIS SHOULD ALLOW WIND AND SEAS TO SUBSIDE THURSDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TUESDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY... BRO CR 080/070 076/069 074 30/40/50/60/70 HRL CR 081/069 078/068 074 30/40/50/60/70 MFE CR 081/068 078/068 073 30/40/50/60/70 RGC CW 078/066 074/064 072 20/30/40/50/60 SPI CR 082/073 080/069 074 30/40/50/60/70 PUBLIC-FIRE WEATHER...54/AVIATION-MARINE-MESO...61 INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...NONE.
TXZ248>257-031200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 345 AM CST SAT NOV 2 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... TROPICAL SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TODAY. WITH MUCH OF THE AREA ALREADY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS... SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR STARR...HIDALGO...CAMERON...AND WILLACY COUNTIES. STRONG WINDS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS HAVE GENERATED HEAVY SURF ALONG THE SOUTH PADRE ISLAND BEACHES. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF RIP CURRENTS AND COASTAL FLOODING TODAY. A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH AND A HIGH SURF ADVISORY ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH PADRE ISLAND. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE CHANCE OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK. AFTER A FRONTAL PASSAGE AROUND MIDWEEK...DRIER CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO PREVAIL. MILLER
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:00 UTC.
3 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains and runoff produced flash flooding and ponding of water in San Perlita. The flooding affected farmlands, homes and roads.
Heavy morning rainfall caused some small streams or resacas in Brownsville to overflow their banks.
Torrential rains and saturated soil conditions produced flash flooding over much of southeast Cameron county. The rains produced flash flooding of roads on South Padre Island. Additionally, severe flash flooding of homes, businesses and roads was reported in Laguna Vista and Laguna Heights.
Heavy rains and saturated soil conditions led to severe flooding of the Green Valley Acres housing area in San Benito. Homes and streets were flooded, prompting Cameron County officials to evacuate around 500 residents. Flood waters persisted over the area for several days after the initial 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, November 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: 5326434, 5326431, 5326432, 5326433.