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 Oct 23, 8:35 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 935 PM CDT WED OCT 23 2002 CONTINUED MARGINALLY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE THURSDAY BODES WELL FOR CONTD CHANCE OF RAIN. WILL CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT...AS IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH RAIN TO CAUSE FLOODING AFTER THE RAINS SINCE SEPTEMBER. FORECASTS AND 00Z ANALYSIS CONTD TO SHOW COMING OF ANOTHER AUTUMN RAIN EVENT THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY. LAST WAVE OF MAIN SYSTEM SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING BRINGS COOL FRONT FROM WEST WITH CHANCE OF RAIN ON THE FRONT...THEN MOVING EAST OF AREA AS CHC OF RAIN DECREASES OR NEARLY ENDS. MEDIUM RANGE DATA THEN SHOWS A COLD FRONT COMING IN THE MID TO LATE PART OF NEXT WEEK... CAUSING UNSEASONABLY COOL WEATHER. 08/18/23 PREVIOUS DISCUSSION.... PROLONGED HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT CONTINUES TO LOOK LIKELY FOR EWX CWA BEGINNING LATER TONIGHT AND CONTINUING INTO THE WEEKEND. ALTHOUGH, STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO EXACTLY WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL FALL. TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY...EXPECT TO HAVE A REPEAT OF LAST NIGHT WITH CONVECTION DEVELOPING OUT WEST LATER THIS EVENING AS AN UPPER TROUGH TOGETHER WITH LFQ AND RRQ OF AN UPPER JET APPROACH THE RIO GRANDE AND INTERACTS WITH PWS OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OVER SOUTHERN TEXAS AND REMNANT SURFACE BOUNDARY ENHANCED BY LOW LEVEL JET. AS A RESULT, WILL REISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ENTIRE CWA FOR TONIGHT. THE COLD FRONT CURRENTLY APPROACHING I-20 BETWEEN ABILENE AND MIDLAND SHOULD STAY NORTH OF CWA WHILE AWAITING UPPER TROUGH ALONG COASTAL CALIFORNIA. LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS. THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...COLD FRONT EASES INTO THE EWX CWA EARLY THEN STALLS AS CALIFORNIA TROUGH, LFQ AND RRQ OF AN UPPER JET MOVE OVERHEAD LATE. ADDING TO THE LIFT, THE 850 MB FRONT REMAINS NORTH OF CWA THROUGH SATURDAY. ADDING TO THE MOISTURE, WILL BE THE REMNANTS OF NOW HURRICANE KENNA AND QUITE POSSIBLY SOME FROM NOW TROPICAL STORM LOWELL, BOTH IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC. OF NOTE, THE GFS MODEL SHOWS AN 84 HOUR ACCUMULATED RAINFALL CENTER OF 8+ INCHES IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS. SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THE TROUGH AND COLD FRONTS MOVE EAST OF THE CWA ON EARLY WITH RAINFALL CHANCES DECREASING. HOWEVER, WEAK SHORT-WAVES WILL KEEP AT LEAST SLIGHT POPS GOING. FORECAST TEMPERATURES WILL TREND TOWARD THE COOLER NUMBERS OR BELOW DUE TO CLOUDS, RAIN, AND LATER ON COLD FRONT. THANKS TO SJT FOR COORDINATION. PRELIMS... AUS 063/070 059/065 056 78777 DRT 067/076 060/066 057 76555 SAT 065/073 060/066 057 78777 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH...ENTIRE CWA...THROUGH TONIGHT. 04/09/KW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Guadalupe River at Gonzales crested at 40.1 feet on October 26 at 430CST, where flood stage is 31.0 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, 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: 5319405.