1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 8, 7:55 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
855 PM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002
MAIN CHANGE ON THE UPDATE IS TO RECONFIGURE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO
INCLUDE THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. STILL EXPECTING A COUPLE OF MORE
IMPULSES TO ROTATE AROUND THE UPPER LOW LOCATED OVER SE NEW MEXICO
TO SWING EASTWARD ACROSS THE CWFA. THESE IMPULSES WILL TRIGGER
ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO WEDNESDAY
MORNING.
PRELIM NUMBERS...
AUS 070/082 065/080 059 +75
DRT 069/085 065/085 060 853
SAT 071/083 066/082 060 864
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD THROUGH 6 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR ALL OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY.
13/18/03TXZ171>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.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
825 PM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1120 AM 6SW DRIFTWOOD TX TORNADO
10/08/02 HAYS MOTORIST REPORT THROUGH
HAYS COUNTY SHERIFF OF
TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AND TWO
TRUCKS BLOWN OFF OF TEXAS
HIGHWAY 12.
0528 PM NEW BRAUNFELS TX 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/08/02 COMAL 50 TO 60 MPH DOWNBURST
WINDS ALONG A 5 MILE PATH
FROM OAK RUN SUBDIVISON TO
GRUENE. REPORTED BY OFF
DUTY NWS PERSONNEL AT TWO
LOCATIONS.
0700 PM MAXWELL TX WIND DAMAGE
10/08/02 CALDWELL BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOP
REPORTS POWER POLE DOWN.
0700 PM 8NE LOCKHART TX WIND DAMAGE
10/08/02 CALDWELL BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOP
REPORTS POWER POLES DOWN IN
THE TOWN OF DALE AND
WIDESPREAD POWER OUT IN
DALE.
0528 PM NEW BRAUNFELS TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/08/02 COMAL HAIL FROM 0528 TO 0533 PM
CDT IN OAK RUN SUBDIVISION.
REPORTED BY OFF DUTY NWS
PERSONNEL.
26/JWZTXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1135 PM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002 ...PRELIMINARY 24 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH 10 AM TUESDAY... MAVERICK COUNTY QUEMADO ONE...4.00 QUEMADO TWO...6.00 GILLESPIE COUNTY FREDERICKSBURG 6N...2.10 BASTROP COUNTY CEDAR CREEK 4SE...1.47 BLANCO COUNTY JOHNSON CITY...1.12 FAYETTE COUNTY FLATONIA...1.84 LA GRANGE...1.55 GILLESPIE COUNTY TEAGUE RANCH...1.28 LEE COUNTY DIME BOX...2.56 VAL VERDE COUNTY DEL RIO...3.60 DEL RIO 8NNW...2.20 COMSTOCK 2W...2.25 BAKERS CROSSING...1.69 PANDALE 1N...2.00 LANGTRY...3.13 AMISTAD DAM...3.03 DEL RIO 2NW...3.57 LAUGHLIN AFB...2.70 BEXAR COUNTY THREE ACORN RANCH...0.52 BULVERDE 1E...0.70 LAVERNIA...0.68 COMAL COUNTY NEW BRAUNFELS 3ENE...0.73 CANYON LAKE...3.88 TRAVIS COUNTY DRIPPING SPRINGS...1.03 WIMBERLY 1NW...0.88 KENDALL COUNTY COMFORT 1S...7.02 (5 HOUR PERIOD 10/07) COMFORT-GUADALUPE RIVER...3.42 REAL COUNTY CAMPWOOD 2SW...4.10 EDWARDS COUNTY BARKSDALE...3.70 KINNEY COUNTY RIO GRANDE RANCH...8.00 BRACKETTVILLE 22N...4.33 KERR COUNTY CAMP VERDE 3W...0.12 INGRAM...1.30 HUNT...3.03 HUNT 1E-GUADALUPE RIVER...3.31 WILLIAMSON COUNTY JARRELL...0.80 MEDINA COUNTY DEVINE...0.52 && KW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rio Grande River at Eagle Pass crested at 27.0 feet on October 9 at 800CST, where flood stage is 16.0 feet.
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: 5319313.