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 Oct 23, 3:05 AM CST, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
405 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002
CLEARED WESTERN AND NORTHERN COUNTIES FROM THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH
THIS MORNING...AND CONTINUED WITH THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES THROUGH 7
AM BASED ON LATEST RADER TRENDS.
WET PATTERN TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY...WITH POSSIBLE
HEAVY RAIN EVENTS SETTING UP FOR LATE TONIGHT/THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY/SATURDAY. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT TODAY WILL BE SIMILAR TO
YESTERDAY IN THAT THE CURRENT ONGOING CONVECTION WILL EXIT THE CWA
THIS MORNING AND WILL TAKE A GOOD 12 HOURS BEFORE MORE DEVELOPS
ACROSS WEST TEXAS...DAY CREW WILL NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT ISSUING A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY. TWO FEATURES THAT WILL
CONTROL THE FORECAST FOR FRIDAY/SATURDAY ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS
ARE A COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY PARKED STATIONARY OVER OKLAHOMA AND THE
TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND THE MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH TS KENNA...SOON
TO BE HURRICANE KENNA OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC. 00Z MODEL OUTPUT
SHOWS MOISTURE FROM KENNA CREEPING NORTHWEST ABOUT THE SAME TIME THE
COLD FRONT POKES INTO CWA EWX AND BECOMES STATIONARY...A CLASSIC
HEAVY RAIN SCENARIO. DEEPENING WEST COAST TROUGH ON FRI/SAT WILL
AIDE IN THIS PROCESS.
PREMENTIONED WEST COAST TROUGH WILL SWING EAST ACROSS THE ROCKIES
LATE SATURDAY AND INTO SUNDAY. ASSOICATED DRY SLOT WILL WORK OVER
MEXICO AND SHUT THE WATER OFF HERE ON SUNDAY...THEN DRY ON MONDAY
BEFORE ANOTHER SHOT AT PRECIP ON TUESDAY AS ANOTHER TROUGH DIGS IN
OVER THE SW U.S.
11/02/JB
PRELIMS...
AUS ET 075/065 075/059 065 477
DRT TT 080/068 079/061 066 577
SAT ET 078/068 078/060 066 477
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU 7 AM FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN
COUNTIES.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
608 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 AM 4 E SAN ANTONIO TX FLASH FLOODS
10/23/02 BEXAR HIGH WATER RESCUES AT US
HWY 90 AT W T MONTGOMERY
AND I37 AT DONOP RDREPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0525 AM 5 S SEGUIN TX FLASH FLOODS
10/23/02 GUADALUPE FM 467 CLOSED WITH 2 FEET
OF WATER FLOWING OVER IT.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0530 AM 5 W SEGUIN TX FLASH FLOODS
10/23/02 GUADALUPE HWY 78 CLOSED AT FM 1044
AND ALSO AT PIONEER RD.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
0550 AM 5 E SAN ANTONIO TX FLASH FLOODS
10/23/02 BEXAR FOSTER RD CLOSED AT
HILDEBRAND. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
JPBThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The San Antonio River crested at Elmendorf at 46.2 feet on October 25 at 0830CST, where 35.0 feet is flood stage.
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: 5319403.