3 flash 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 4, 9:50 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 950 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 A SOGGY NIGHT IS IN STORE FOR THE AREA...ESPECIALLY FROM DEEP EAST TEXAS INTO NORTH AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. LUFKIN TX HAS RECEIVED 3.23 INCHES TODAY THROUGH 830 PM...WITH A THREE DAY TOTAL OF 5.52 INCHES. SIMILAR AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED ACROSS THE REST OF DEEP EAST TEXAS AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA. NATCHITOCHES HAS RECEIVED AROUND 2 INCHES SINCE 8 AM TODAY...WITH A THREE DAY TOTAL AROUND 3.3 INCHES. ISENTROPIC LIFT IS CREATING A LARGE AREA OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE AREA SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 30...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. A STEADY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 30 FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT...WITH THE RAINFALL BECOMING HEAVIER AS A SURFACE LOW...CURRENTLY ABOUT 100 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF GALVESTON...MOVES NORTH NORTHEAST TRACKING INTO THE LOWER TOLEDO BEND COUNTRY TO NEAR THE MONROE VICINITY BY 12Z TUESDAY. AS AN INVERTED TROUGH FORMS AND THE LOW COMES CLOSER TO THE REGION...SURFACE WINDS WILL BECOME CONVERGENT ACROSS THE AREA...CREATING ADDITIONAL LIFT FOR HEAVY RAIN...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS TONIGHT BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS DEEP EAST TEXAS INTO NORTH LOUISIANA. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT IS ALREADY COVERED WITH THE CURRENT FLOOD WATCH. NO CHANGES IN REGARDS TO THE WATCH. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THIS RAINFALL EVENT SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE MORNING HOURS...AS THE SURFACE LOW QUICKLY EXITS THE REGION TUESDAY MORNING. CURRENT TEMPERATURES ARE ALREADY NEAR THE EXPECTED LOWS...BUT EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN NEARLY STEADY TONIGHT WITH SATURATED CONDITIONS. THUS...DID NOT CHANGE OVERNIGHT LOWS. A POSSIBLE EXCEPTION TO THIS COULD BE ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PART OF THE FORECAST AREA...WHERE TEMPERATURES COULD ACTUALLY RISE AFTER 3 AM...IF THE WARM FRONT CAN MOVE UP FROM THE GULF. WE WILL SEE. ALSO TWEAKED WINDS FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE SURFACE LOW. 22 .SHV...FFA TONIGHT ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LUFKIN TX TO VIVIAN LA TO FARMERVILLE LA LINE.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL MOVE OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWEST LOUISIANA...AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM TONIGHT...PARTICULARLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. ISOLATED STORMS COULD BECOME BRIEFLY SEVERE LATE TONIGHT...AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO COULD OCCUR...IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR TONIGHT...OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST...AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS IS NOT LIKELY...BUT MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:46 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding occurred across FM 2497 which closed the roadway to all travel.
Flash flooding closed FM 841 to traffic in both directions.
Flash flooding closed FM 326 to traffic in both directions.
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: 5319329, 5319330, 5319331.