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 5, 3:30 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
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.
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-061200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 545 AM CST TUE NOV 5 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... 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 Colorado River at LaGrange crested at 31.02 feet at 1800CST on November 5, where flood stage is 26.0 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: 5323340.