3 flash 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 7, 8:42 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 942 PM CDT MON OCT 7 2002 AFTER A COUPLE HOURS OF INDECISION, HAVE FINALLY DECIDED TO HOIST A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE I-35 CORRIDOR AND ALL POINTS WEST. WAS MONITORING THE SOUTHWARD EXTENT OF THE SHORTWAVE AND COMPARING THIS FEATURE TO THE 18Z MODEL FORECASTS TO SEE HOW WELL THE LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH VAL VERDE COUNTY WOULD HOLD UP. IT APPEARS THE 18Z MESO-ETA AND AVN WERE SLIGHTLY TOO CONSERVATIVE AND THE EARLY SIGNS FROM THE 00Z MESO-ETA INDICATE A DEEPER SHORTWAVE THAN WAS PREVIOUSLY ANTICIPATED. CONVECTION IS QUITE HEALTHY 100 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAGLE PASS THUS EXPECT THIS RAIN AREA TO SPREAD INTO THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. RAINS OVER THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY ARE IN A SLOW DECLINE, BUT WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF PROBLEMS AS THIS SHORTWAVE BEGINS TO AFFECT THIS AREA TOWARD DAYBREAK. LOW LEVEL JET WILL PROBABLY TRIGGER ADDITIONAL STORMS AHEAD OF THE WESTERN COMPLEX TO COMPLICATE MATTERS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS CORRESPOND TO DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES TO SUGGEST SLIGHT UNDERESTIMATION PROBABLY ON THE ORDER OF 20 PERCENT. THE HIGHEST REPORT SO FAR WAS 3.03 NEAR HUNT IN KERR COUNTY WITH SEVERAL REPORTS OVER 2 INCHES IN KERR, GILLESPIE, LEE, BASTROP, AND FAYETTE COUNTIES. -UPDATE- JUST GOT A REPORT OF 7 INCHES IN THE TOWN OF COMFORT AS A TINY SLIVER OF HEAVY RAIN TRACKED ALONG THE KERR AND KENDALL COUNTY. THIS POINTS CLOSER TO AN UNDERESTIMATION OF ABOUT 30-40 PERCENT. THE CELL HERE WAS A UNIQUELY STATIONARY STORM, SO THE MORE ORGANIZED ACTIVITY TO THE WEST WILL PROBABLY NOT STUMP THE ESTIMATES QUITE AS MUCH. WILL ADJUST FORECAST ZONE AREAS SLIGTHLY WHICH WILL RESULT IN A FEW CHANGES TO THE FORECAST FOR LATER PERIODS. FORECAST PARAMETERS FROM THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE DID NOT VARY MUCH, SO THE DIFFERENCES SHOULD BE SLIGHT. OTHERWISE, THE CHANGES TO THE CURRENT FORECAST WILL MAINLY REFLECT AN INCREASE IN POPS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY IN THE FIRST COUPLE PERIODS. .EWX...FFA THRU TUES AFTN ALONG AND WEST OF I-35. 18/3/KW
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-081200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT MON OCT 7 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THERE IS A CHANCE OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SPOTTY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FROM TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF RAIN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A STALLED COLD FRONT OVER THE REGION. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SPOTTY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:43 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Scattered evening thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 totals across the county, with isolated amounts to 7 inches at Comfort. The Sheriff's Department reported several roads closed in the extreme western part of the county during the late evening.
Scattered thunderstorms through the evening hours over southwestern Gillespie County produced general 1 to 2 inch rainfall with isolated totals to 4 inches. Flash flooding forced the closing of roads in the southwestern part of the county through the late evening hours.
Scattered thunderstorms from evening into the following morning produced general 2 inch rainfall over the county, with widespread amounts to 3 inches and isolated totals to 5 inches. The Kerr County Sheriff's Department reported numerous roads across the county closed from late evening through noon on October 8.
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: 5319094, 5319095, 5319096.