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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 21, 2:22 AM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 222 AM CST FRI FEB 21 2003 ACTIVITY ON THE INCREASE AGAIN AS THE UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO DIG SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE BIG BEND. DYNAMICS FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN TODAY WILL COME TO AN END AS THE UPPER LOW SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPS TODAY WILL VARY LITTLE DUE TO RAINS. CLEARING SKIES TONIGHT WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO DROP TO NEAR NORMAL VALUES. MUCH DRIER ATMOS SATURDAY AND A BIT OF DOWNSLOPING WINDS OVER WESTERN COUNTIES WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO RISE TO NORMAL OR ABOVE NORMAL. SOME INCOMING CIRRUS SUNDAY WITH THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM SWINGING THROUGH THE CENTRAL U.S. A BACKDOOR TYPE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH TEXAS MONDAY SETTING UP ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY MID WEEK. PRELIM NUMBERS... AUS 55 43 66 43 66 +500 SAT 58 45 66 45 68 +500 DRT 58 49 74 46 71 +200 .EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THOROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 06/08
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-211200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 600 AM CST THU FEB 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY...EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. AS A WINTER STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES SOUTH TEXAS TONIGHT, AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE AND FLASH FLOODING BECOMES LIKELY. ALSO THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH OF RAIN FRIDAY IS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE WINTER STORM EXITS SOUTH TEXAS. FLASH FLOODING AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN UNTIL AROUND NOON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Colorado River at LaGrange crested at 32.29 feet on February 21 at 1830CST, where 26.0 feet is flood stage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 2003
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: 5340222.