1 tornado, 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 8, 10:15 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1115 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 UPDATED FIRST PERIOD OF ZFP BASED ON CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS. OTHERWISE...PREVIOUS FORECAST REMAINS INTACT. .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH WEST AND CNTRL PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH 6 AM CDT...WEDNESDAY. 11/02/JB/DC
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT...FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF... ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL... COMAL...DIMMIT...EDWARDS...FRIO...GILLESPIE...GUADALUPE...HAYS... KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY...LEE...LLANO...MAVERICK...MEDINA...REAL... TRAVIS...UVALDE...VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON...WILSON AND ZAVALA. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MEXICO CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND INTERACTS WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER TEXAS. RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH TODAY COULD APPROACH 4 TO 8 INCHES. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WELL INTO WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED. CLEARING SKIES WITH RAIN ENDING BY THURSDAY...FOLLOWED BY PARTLY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES INTO THE WEEKEND.
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-081715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 629 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 ...COOLER WEATHER COMING SUNDAY AND MONDAY... AFTER THE EARLY OCTOBER 2002 AUTUMN RAIN EVENT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WARMER CONDTIONS BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ON SUNDAY A STRONG COOL FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...BRINGING WINDY AND COOLER CONDITIONS WITH POSSIBLE SHOWERS. AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO COOL OFF TO THE 70S SUNDAY...WITH UPPER 60S OVER THE HILL COUNTRY SUNDAY. FOR MONDAY...MORNING CLOUDINESS WITH A CHANCE OF MORNING SHOWERS IS EXPECTED BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE DAY. LOWS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 45 TO 50 OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND TO AROUND 50 TO 55 OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR 70 OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND 70 TO 75 OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-081830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 740 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 ...COOLER WEATHER COMING SUNDAY AND MONDAY... AFTER THE EARLY OCTOBER 2002 AUTUMN RAIN EVENT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WARMER CONDTIONS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. COOLER AUTUMN WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW SUNDAY AND MONDAY. ON SUNDAY A STRONG COOL FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...BRINGING WINDY AND COOLER CONDITIONS WITH POSSIBLE SHOWERS. AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO COOL OFF TO THE 70S SUNDAY...WITH UPPER 60S OVER THE HILL COUNTRY SUNDAY. FOR MONDAY...MORNING CLOUDINESS WITH A CHANCE OF MORNING SHOWERS IS EXPECTED BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE DAY. LOWS ARE EXPECTED TO BE 45 TO 50 OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND TO AROUND 50 TO 55 OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AFTERNOON HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR 70 OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND 70 TO 75 OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1055 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 AM 10 SW ROCKSPRINGS TX FLASH FLOODS
10/08/02 EDWARDS HWY 674 SOUTHWEST OF
ROCKSPRINGS CLOSED.REPORTED
BY HWY DEPT.
1045 AM 10 SW CARTA VALLEY TX FLASH FLOODS 10/08/02
EDWARDS HWY 2523 CLOSED. REPORTED
BY HWY DEPT.
1050 AM BRACKETTVILLE TX FLASH FLOODS 10/08/02
KINNEY ALL MINOR COUNTY ROADS CLOSED.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
JPBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1100 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 AM 20 NNW EAGLE PASS TX FLASH FLOODS 10/08/02
MAVERICK US HWY 277 CLOSED FROM
QUEMADO TO DEL RIO.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
1100 AM 10 N LEAKEY TX FLASH FLOODS 10/08/02
REAL HWYS 336 AND 337 CLOSED
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENTThe Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:17 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A small tornado struck just southwest of Driftwood, knocking 2 trucks off SH12. None of the vehicle occupants were injured. One of the trucks was operable after being righted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2002Warnings 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: 5319148.