2 flash 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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 22, 8:42 PM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 942 PM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 UPDATE... MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO ZONES JUST SENT OUT. UPPER JET MOVING TWD FA PER 00Z UAA...WATER VAPOR AND PROFILERS. LARGE BATCH OF SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDER MOVING ACRS SWRN PANHANDLE. MEANWHILE...SHOWERS ARE BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS ACRS ERN NM SWD INTO THE UPPER TRANS-PECOS REGION OF TX. EXPECT THESE SHOWERS TO SPREAD NEWD AND INCR IN COVERAGE. MUCH OF THE FA WILL BEGIN TO SEE RAIN NEAR OR AFTER MIDNIGHT. SERN ZONES MAY BE MUCH LATER TONIGHT. .LUB...NONE.
TXZ021>044-230000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1145 AM CDT TUE OCT 22 2002 THIS IS A HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS TODAY AND TONIGHT. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL COMBINE WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO RESULT IN AN INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM NEAR THE TEXAS-NEW MEXICO BORDER AND MOVE EAST INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHWARD ON WEDNESDAY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY BE POSSIBLE.
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:53 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding was reported in and around Shallowater; some roads were impassable.
Several roads were washed out due to flooding.
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, October 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: 5319427, 5319428.