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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 4, 3:45 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 345 AM CST MON NOV 4 2002 ONCE AGAIN AN APPROACHING UPR TROF TO WEST AND A GOOD TAP OF DEEP SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE ACRS CNTRL MEX WILL RESULT IN HIGH RAIN CHCS OVER THE NEXT 12-24 HOURS. TWO FEATURES WILL PROVIDE THE LIFT...THE FIRST BEING ONGOING STG EQ POT TEMP ADV/ISENTROPIC LIFT THIS MORNING JUST ABV THE COOL SFC AMS...THEN THE UPR TROF TO THE WEST PRODUCING SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT ACRS TX THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT. ALREADY SEEING CONVECTION OVR WEST TX THAT WILL AFFECT THE WRN CWA BY THE MID TO LATE MORNING. COMBINATION OF VERY LOW FFG VALUES...PWS NEAR 2 INCHES...AND NEWD TRAINING OF CONVECTION WILL REQUIRE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EASTERN SXNS TDA...AND WILL LIKELY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO PART OF TONIGHT. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN ENDING PCPN FROM THE WEST EARLY TUE AS A DEEP LAYER OF DRY AIR PUNCHES IN FROM THE WEST BEHIND THE TROF AND THIS VERIFIED IN THE WV IMAGERY NEAR BAJA. A RETURN TO MORE NORMAL NOV WX FOR WED THRU FRI WITH COOL/DRY CONDS PREVAILING...A STRONG UPR SHEAR AXIS OVERHEAD MAY MAKE FOR A FEW HIGH CLOUDS...BUT MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES SHOULD PREVAIL. NEXT TROF DIGGING INTO CA FRIDAY WILL BRING A RETURN FLOW TO S TX FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY WITH A SLIGHT CHC FOR SOME DRZL. MOSTLY CLOUDY AND A CHC OF SHOWERS BY SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY AS THE TROF ARRIVES IN WEST TX. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS 058/051 068/044 983- DRT 059/053 075/049 85-0 SAT 058/052 072/046 982- .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH EASTERN THIRD OF CWA THRU TODAY.
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-041200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 504 AM CST SUN NOV 3 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...ALONG WITH DEEPER MOISTURE COULD RESULT IN THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS MONDAY AND INTO TUESDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Navidad River at Sublime crested at 31.27 feet at 1600CST on November 5, where flood stage is 24.0 feet.
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: 5323259.