Name: Flash Flood in Texas, November 5, 2002
Start: 2002-11-05T05:15
End: 2002-11-05T06:00
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 5, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
330 AM CST TUE NOV 5 2002

THE POS TILT UPR TROF AXIS TO SLOWLY MOV EAST OF THE AREA TDA WITH
THE ASSOCIATED CDFNT DRIVING SWD INTO THE HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTN AND
THE REST OF S CNTRL TX THIS EVENING.  A LAST ROUND OF A FEW SHRA
PSBL MAINLY DURING THE MORNING HOURS ACRS THE CWA...HOWEVER NOT
EXPECTING QPF AMOUNTS TO BE WIDESPREAD OR HIGH ENUF TO WARRANT CONTG
THE FFA.   A WEAK S/W RDG TO BUILD INTO THE TX WED/THU RESULTING IN
GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPS.  MOS GUID IN FACT IS
HINTING A LIGHT FREEZE IN THE HILL COUNTRY FOR THU MORNING AND WILL
NUDGE MINS DOWN A CATEGORY THIS PACKAGE...HOWEVER A VERY MOIST
GROUND SHOULD KEEP MINS ABOVE FREEZING IN THE HILLS BUT WITH A FROST
PSBL. AVERAGE 1ST FREEZE DATE FOR AUS/SAT/DRT IS LATE NOV/EARLY DEC.

A BRISK ZONAL FLOW SETS UP BY FRIDAY WITH LEE TROFFING IN WEST TX
ALLOWING BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE TO RETURN FRI NIGHT/SAT MORNING IN
THE FORM OF LOW STRATUS AND FOG.  A S/W WILL DIG FROM THE CO ROCKIES
INTO THE TX PANHANDLE/OK LATE SATURDAY AND DRIVE A WEAK CDFNT THRU S
TX...HOWEVER DUE TO LIMITED MOISTURE WILL LIKELY NOT MENTION ANY
PCPN ATTM.  A SECOND STRONGER S/W TROF TO DIG FURTHER SOUTH AND WEST
NEAR THE BIG BEND ON MONDAY AND MIGHT HAVE ENUF MOISTURE TO MENTION
PCPN...ESPECIALLY OVER THE ERN ZONES WHERE DEEPER MOISTURE WILL BE
AVAILABLE.  1/18/DC

PRELIMS...
AUS BU 070/043 066/038 068 2000
DRT BU 074/045 070/043 071 1000
SAT BU 072/047 071/043 069 2000

.EWX...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 4, 5:55 AM CST, 23 hours 20 minutes before

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.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Bastrop

When: November 5, 5:15 AM CST to 6:00 AM CST
Where: Bastrop County, 5 mi SW of Bastrop
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 30.104, -97.312 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A Bastrop woman was swept away in her car as she attempted to drive through the Cedar Creek crossing at Lower Red Rock Road, just off FM304 southwest of Bastrop. She called police at 0525CST to say that she had driven into deep water and the car was beginning to flood. She was rescued by emergency personnel but died shortly afterward at the Smithville hospital.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Flash Flood, Bastrop	2002-11-05	52	Female	Vehicle/Towed Trailer	Direct

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, November 2002

Sources

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: 5323335.