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, 3:35 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 335 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 NEW FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR TONIGHT FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ALMOST CONTINOUS RAINS TRANING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...MAINLY EAST OF THE ESCARMENT HAS SET US UP FOR A FLASH FLOOD EVENT TONIGHT. GROUNDS ARE TOTALLY SATURATED THROUGHOUT MCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A POSSIBILITY OF EVEN HEAVIER RAINFALL EXISTS TONIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL INSTABILITIES INCREASE WITH THE UPPER DISTURBANCE TO THE WEST MOVING INTO THE WATCH AREA. DRIER AIR WILL BEGIN TO ENTRAIN INTO THE AREA FROM THE WEST LATE TONIGHT WITH RAINS TAPERING OFF FROM WEST TO EAST. A WEAK RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE AREA BEGINNING TOMORROW WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW PREDOMINANT. MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS WITH MILD AFTERNOONS AND COOL NIGHTS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...UNDER WESTERLY FLOW CONDITIONS ALOFT. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SHOULD APPROACH THE AREA BY THE WEEKEND WITH AT LEAST LOW CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION BY SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AUS EB 047/065 044/066 040 02+00 DRT BB 046/074 044/068 042 02400 SAT EB 049/068 046/072 042 02+00= .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH EASTERN HALF OF CWA THRU TONIGHT.
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 555 AM CST MON NOV 4 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO TRAIN ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD ONE INCH RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THE WATCH AREA. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER SPOTTERS MAY BE CALLED UPON TO RELAY FLOOD INFORMATION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Guadalupe River at Gonzales crested at 41.93 feet at 0030CST on November 6, where flood stage is 31.0 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: 5323337.