1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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, 9:20 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 920 PM CST MON NOV 4 2002 RAIN IS ENDING OVER THE COUNTIES ALONG THE I-35 CORRIDOR...SO WILL CLEAR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES FROM THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH... ATASCOSA...BEXAR...COMAL...HAYS...TRAVIS AND WILLIAMSON. A FLOOD STATEMENT (SATFLSSAT) WILL BE ISSUED TO CLEAR THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES. .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF THE EASTAREN CWA THRU TONIGHT. 13/04
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.
Cibolo Creek at Falls City crested at 24.00 feet at 0230CST on November 6, where flood stage is 17 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: 5323338.