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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 2, 7:30 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 830 PM CDT WED OCT 2 2002 CURRENT CONDITIONS ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS INDICATE LIGHT EAST WIND WITH CLEAR SKIES. EXPECT WINDS WILL BECOME CALM ACROSS THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY TONIGHT...PICKING UP AGAIN AFTER SUNRISE TOMORROW. HURRICANE LILI CONTINUES TO TRACK TOWARD THE LOUISIANA COAST...AND MAIN EFFECTS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS WILL LIKELY BE DRY AND WARM AS SUBSIDENCE IS INDUCED BY THE PROXIMITY OF LILI AND SOME SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS THURSDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT EVEN THOUGH BUOY 020 REPORTS WAVES AT 2 FEET WITH 6 SECOND PERIOD. BUOY 002 REPORTS 11 FOOT SEAS AND EXPECT THAT THE SWELL ACTION WILL MIGRATE TOWARD THE COASTAL WATERS OVERNIGHT WITH SMALL CRAFT CONDITIONS THURSDAY. OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE WILL BE LEFT AS IS. SYNOPTIC-AVIATION-MARINE...VANSPEYBROECK MESO...WATKINS INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...SCA GMZ150-155-170-175.
TXZ248>257-031102- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 345 PM CDT WED OCT 2 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE LILI IS MOVING THROUGH THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO NOW...AND IS FORECAST TO MAKE LANDFALL IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA THURSDAY AFTERNOON. EVEN THOUGH THIS HURRICANE IS FORECAST TO PASS WELL TO THE EAST OF OUR COASTAL WATERS...SOME LARGE SWELLS CAN BE EXPECTED. THESE SWELLS SHOULD ARRIVE THURSDAY MORNING. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR MINOR COASTAL FLOODING...BUT RIP CURRENTS AND HEAVY SURF WILL BE THE MAIN PROBLEM CAUSED BY THESE SWELLS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... RIP CURRENTS AND HEAVY SURF SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY... AS SWELLS FROM HURRICANE LILI CONTINUE TO COME ONSHORE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL TEXAS LATE SATURDAY...AND DEEP SOUTH TEXAS LATE SUNDAY. THIS FRONT WILL HELP PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. PHILO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Swells and high tides associated with the presence of Hurricane Lili in the Gulf of Mexico, produced coastal flooding along the shores of South Padre Island. Tides ran 1 to 2 feet above high tide levels.
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: 5320068.