1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Oct 19, 1:45 AM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 245 AM CDT SAT OCT 19 2002 UPPER LOW IN SERN NM IS MOVING JUST A HAIR N OF EWD. BOTH AVN AND ETA HAVE DONE GOOD JOB OF LOCATING LOW WITH TWO STRONG S/WVS...ONE ENTERING BIG BEND AND 2ND DROPPING SWD THRU AZ. NOT PLEASED WITH AVN DRAGGING LEE SIDE LOW W OF LRD EWD...BELIEVE ETA HAS BETTER FEEL FOR SFC PATTERN WITH LOW MOVING EWD ACROSS CENTRAL TX...EVEN THO SUSPECT ETA MAY BE A BIT SLOW IS MOVING FEATURE EWD. TODAY...SC TX UNDER RIGHT REAR OF 100KT JET WITH MDT-STG INSTABILITY IN DRT SOUNDING AND STORMS ARE BUILDING SLOWLY SWD. EXPECT TAIL END OF SQUALL LINE TO BUILD SWD TO NEAR US90 AND SWEEP ACROSS NRN AND CENTRAL ZONES BY EARLY AFTN...CROSSING THE SERN ZONES THIS PM. WITH CAPES 1500-2000 J/KG...STRONG DIRECTIONAL SHEAR AT/BELOW H8... WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION POSSIBLE SEVERE...MAINLY DOWNBURSTS. HAIL NOT LIKELY WITH FREEZE LEVELS AOA 15K. ALSO...STROMS TRACKING NEWD ALONG A SW-NE ALIGNED SQUALL LINE COULD PRODUCE GENERAL 1 INCH AMOUNTS WITH A FEW 4 INCH TOTALS. WILL CONTINUE FFLD WATCH TODAY FOR HILL COUNTRY AND ALONG/EAST OF I35. SUN AND MON...CLOUDS WILL CLEAR OVER THE CENTRAL AND EAST ZONES EARLY WITH COOL PLEASANT TEMPS THRU MON. NO ARGUMENT WITH GUIDANCE. TUE THRU FRI...AS THE COOL AIR SLIPS EWD TUE...SELY SFC WINDS WILL RETURN AND HUMIDITY WILL BE ON RISE AGAIN. NEXT FRONT APPEARS SET FOR WED...WITH MORE SHOWERS AND TSTMS...ENDING THU. TURNING A BIT COOLER WED AND CONTINUING THU AND FRI. .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU TODAY HILL COUNTRY AND ALONG/E OF I35. 09/04/JB PRELIM NUMBERS... AUS TB 079/060 076/054 074 92- DRT TB 082/058 079/054 076 21- SAT TB 080/062 076/058 075 721
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT FRI OCT 18 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH AMPLE MOISTURE MOVING UP FROM THE SOUTH TO GENERATE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE TODAY. BY MIDNIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME NUMEROUS AND FORM INTO A SQUALL LINE OVER VAL VERDE COUNTY. THE SQUALL LINE AND ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN MOVE EAST ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE SQUALL LINE AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SATURDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT POSED WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A very brief but intense microburst stuck Cedar Park early on the morning of October 19. The winds, estimated at between 80 and 90 mph blew down trees and power poles over a two-block area of the city.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5319396.