1 flood, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 2:55 AM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 255 AM CST THU OCT 31 2002 TDA THRU SAT...A LOOK AT MIDNIGHT SFC OBS INDICATE THAT THE COLD FRONT IS JUST N OF DPSOTEX. WINDS AT CRP WERE GUSTING TO 24 KTS...DEWPT AT NQI WAS 65 WHILE DEWPTS IN THE LRGV WERE IN THE LWR 70S. LOCAL RADAR DETECTED TSRA OVER NE MEX AND ADJ COASTAL WATERS IN AREA OF CONVERGENCE DUE TO LOW LEVEL NE FLOW. SHRAS OVR N COAHUILA AND NUEVO LEON WERE MOVG NE ACRS ZAPATA COUNTY IN FAR WEST CWA IN SW FLOW AROUND W EDGE OF H7 RIDGE OVER W GULF NOSING INTO CWA. FRONT WILL CREEP ACRS DPSOTEX TDA...AND PULL UP STNRY DUE TO LACK OF UPPER AIR SUPPORT FROM SRN STREAM ZONAL FLOW. LOOKS LIKE AN OVERRUNNING SITUATION OVER DPSOTEX THRU SAT...AS WARM MOIST AIR IS ADVECTED FROM THE BAY OF CAMPECHE N INTO CNTRL HI PLAINS BY SQUEEZE PLAY BTWN H5 LOW OVER CNTRL ROCKIES AND SFC RIDGE OVER THE PLAINS. WILL GO WITH SLIGHTLY HIER POPS FOR SAT...AS SFC RIDGE MOVES ACRS MID MS VALLEY AND W GULF OPENS UP. SUN THRU WED...BY SUN...UPSTREAM H5 LOW FROM OMEGA BLOCK DIGS S OFF BAJA AND MOVES TOWARD THE COAST...COMING INTO PHASE WITH LOW OVER ID/WY AREA. SRN STREAM JET AROUND BASE OF THIS MID LEVEL TROUGH SETS UP LEE SIDE TROUGHING AND AIDS IN STRENGTHENING OF LLJ ACRS DPSOTEX LATE SUN. STRONG SE FLOW WORDING IN CURRENT PKG FOR MON AS A RESULT...SO WILL ADD BREEZY W/WINDY E TO CHAR OF WX. H5 TROUGH CROSSES CONTINENTAL DIVIDE BY EARLY TUE...EASING SPG OVER CWA AND DRY SLOT ENTERS DPSOTEX AHD OF NEXT COLD FRONT...SO WILL REVISE TSRA TO SLGT AND ENDING EARLY. WILL REVISE WED WX TO CLEAR AND COOLER AND BRING CLOUD COVER BACK LATE...AS ENTRY REGION OF JET MAX ADVANCES INTO S CNTRL TX AHD OF NEXT SHORT WAVE. MARINE...BOY020 UP TO 6 FEET NOW IN NE FLOW OF 20 TO 25 KTS. CF N OF THE VLY WL MOVE SOUTH WITH TIME...INCREASING NE MARINE WINDS TO ABOVE SCA CRITERIA FOR THE NEXT 48H...AS THESE HIGH WINDS AND SEAS PERSIST THRU SAT...ALONG WITH SCT SHRAS/TSRAS. WNDS DECREASE SUNDAY ...VEERING SSE...AS HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES EAST. A FAVORABLE WIND FLOW PATTERN WL EXIST FOR MOD TO HVY OVRRNG RAFL THIS PM THRU TUE. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY...DRIVING MSTR EAST TO END OUR RAINS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY... BRO CT 078/070 078/072 075 40/40/50/50/60 HRL CT 077/068 077/070 074 40/40/50/50/60 MFE CT 076/066 076/068 075 40/40/50/50/50 RGC CT 074/064 075/066 073 30/40/50/40/50 SPI TT 079/073 078/075 076 50/50/60/60/70 SYNOPTIC...59 / AVIATION-MARINE-MESO...58 INTERNET ADDRESS...WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BRO .BRO...SCA TODAY FOR GMZ130-150-155-170-175.
TXZ248>257-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 500 AM CST THU OCT 31 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS TODAY...INITIATING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY...WITH MORE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... LATEST MODELS ARE INDICATING OVER-RUNNING RAINS FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY IS SATURATED FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS...AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CREATE FLOODING IN THE VALLEY. KEEP INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE. PHILO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Prolonged rains produced street flooding in Brownsville.
Strong thunderstorms produced flash flooding that entered homes in Brownsville.
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: 5320066, 5320067.