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 24, 8:25 AM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 925 AM CDT THU OCT 24 2002 MORNING ANALYSIS INDICATING 2-3 INCHES ADDITIONAL RAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS ENTIRE AREA TODAY. COLDEST TOPS ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVIEST RAIN CURRENTLY MOVING FROM MAVERICK COUNTY TO JUST SOUTH OF SAT. EXPECT A BRIEF LULL IN ACTIVITY AS THESE TOPS MOVE EASTWARD LATE THIS MORNING. BREAKS TO WEST OF DEL RIO WILL RESULT IN SOME HEATING CONTRIBUTING TO ISOLATED STRONGER AND POSSIBLY SEVERE CONVECTION IN THE AFTERNOON. CONTINUED MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AT LOW LEVELS COUPLED WITH HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE FEED FROM KENNA SUFFICIENT TO KEEP FLOOD THREAT GOING BECOMING MORE FOCUSED ON FRONTAL BOUNDARY LATER TODAY AND INTO FRIDAY. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES ANTICIPATED TO FORECAST. .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH...ENTIRE CWA...THROUGH TODAY. 10/01/JB PREVIOUS DISCUSSION: WILL UPDATE FFA AND EXTEND THROUGH TODAY FOR ANTICIPATED AND ONGOING CONVECTION. PREVIOUS FORECAST ON TRACK WITH HIGH POPS IN ORDER FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT...THEN A GRADUAL TAPERING DOWN OF POPS. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH KENNA...STREAMING NORTHEAST ACROSS MEXICO...WILL BEGIN TO INFLUENCE PWS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS TODAY WITH A 0.25 TO 0.50 INCH INCREASE EXPECTED. AT THE SAME TIME...AN UPPER LOW...CURRENTLY MAKING EASTWARD PROGRESS OVER SOCAL...WILL OPEN UP AND ACCELERATE EAST...HELPING TO KICK-OFF ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE WILDCARD IN THIS FORECAST IS A COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY STATIONARY NORTH OF OUR CWA. THIS FRONT IS EXPECTED TO HOLD UP TODAY AHEAD OF THE PREMENTIONED SHORTWAVE TROUGH...AND THEN HEAD SOUTH TONIGHT AFTER THE WAVE EXITS TO THE EAST. A NOTICEABLE DROP IN TEMPS IS FORECAST BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH HIGH TEMPS FRIDAY EXPECTED TO BE 10 TO 15 DEGREES COOLER THAN TODAYS HIGHS. THE FRONTAL PASSAGE MAY HELP TO FOCUS HEAVY RAINS FURTHER SOUTH ON FRIDAY/SATURDAY...WHERE THE MOISTURE AXIS FROM KENNA WILL BE. HOWEVER...UNCERTAINTY IN THE FORECAST POSITION OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND THE MOISTURE AXIS FROM KENNA WARRANTS A CONTINUING OF HIGH POPS FOR CWA EWX FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS WELL. A WEST COAST TROUGH DEEPENS AND BEGINS MOVING EAST THIS WEEKEND...AS A COOL SURFACE AIRMASS HANGS TIGHT OVER SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS. AT SOME POINT...PROBABLY LATE SATURDAY...THE MOISTURE FROM KENNA WILL BE SHOVED SOUTH OF CWA EWX AND DRIER AIR WILL WORK OVER FROM MEXICO...LEADING TO A DECREASE IN POPS AND PERHAPS SHUTTING THE RAIN OFF COMPLETELY. THE BIG STORY AFTER THIS WEEKEND WILL BE A STRONG COLD FRONT HEADING OUT OF CANADA AND FORECAST TO BARREL THROUGH TEXAS LATE TUEDSAY INTO WEDNESDAY. 11/02/JB PRELIMS... AUS TT 073/059 066/055 066 11887 DRT CC 077/060 067/057 068 11454 SAT TT 076/063 067/057 067 11776=
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Cibolo Creek crested at Falls City at 22.2 feet on October 25 at 0115CST, where 17.0 feet is flood stage.
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: 5319702.