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, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 230 PM CDT THU OCT 24 2002 CONFLICTING MESSAGES FROM MODELS THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE TO SIDE WITH THE AVN FOR THIS EVENT. RAIN ENDING FROM THE WEST OVER THE CWA AT THIS TIME WITH NEXT ROUND THIS EVENING A LITTLE MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE RATHER THAN SOLID AREA FOR MUCH OF THE CWA. STRONGEST ACTIVITY TONIGHT LOOKS TO REMAIN MORE TO THE SOUTH ALONG AND SOUTH OF MOISTURE CONVERGENCE GRADIENT AND MOISTURE STREAMERS FROM KENNA. GIVEN SATURATED CONDITIONS AND POSITION OF FRONT STILL NORTH AND WEST OF CWA WILL LEAVE FFA IN PLACE TONIGHT. AS KENNA MOVES INLAND AND MID/UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE PUSHES FURTHER NORTH WIDESPREAD RAIN MAY ENVELOPE MORE OF CWA THAN AVN CURRENTLY INDICATING AS EARLY AS FRIDAY MORNING. .EWX...FFA ENTIRE CWA TONIGHT. 10/01/DC PRELIMS... AUS TT 059 066/055 066 5564 DRT CC 060 067/057 068 4454 SAT TT 063 067/057 067 6665
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Medina River crested at Somerset at 22.2 feet on October 24 at 2315CST, where 18.0 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: 5319704.