Above normal rainfall occurred during November over the Coastal Bend. Most of the Coastal Bend received between 3 and 6 inches of rain in November.
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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 episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.
Above normal rainfall occurred during November over the Coastal Bend. Most of the Coastal Bend received between 3 and 6 inches of rain in November. This rainfall alleviated the severe drought conditions over the western portions of Nueces and San Patricio Counties by the end of the month.
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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 11:46 PM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1246 AM CDT FRI NOV 1 2013 .DISCUSSION...SEE AVIATION SECTION FOR 06Z TAFS. && .AVIATION...FRONTAAL BOUNDARY HAS STALLED NEAR THE COAST AND HIGH BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE LINGERS OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES AT THIS TIME. FOG HAS ALREADY FORMED OVER THE UPPER TEXAS COAST. WITH EAST-NORTHEAST WINDS...EXPECT THIS HIGHER MOISTURE WILL SLOWLY DRIFT INLAND. EXPECT FOG WILL FORM OVER THE INLAND COASTAL PLAINS BY 09-10Z WITH MVFR VSBYS BUT SOME AREAS WILL SEE PATCHY DENSE FOG WITH LIFR/VLIFR VSBYS/CIGS FROM 10Z-14Z. VFR CONDITIONS WILL EXIST FROM 15Z THROUGH THE DAY. UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND COULD SEE BAND OF MID LEVEL CLOUDS FROM 6-8 KFT OVER THE REGION. SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL SHIFT TO NORTH OVER THE BRUSH COUNTRY BY LATE AFTERNOON WITH WIND SHIFT LINE REACHING THE INLAND COASTAL PLAINS BY LATE FRIDAY EVENING. PATCHY FOG COULD DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND DURING THE EVENING BEFORE THE WIND SHIFT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 60 79 50 77 62 / 10 0 0 0 20 VICTORIA 55 77 45 75 56 / 0 0 0 0 20 LAREDO 60 80 51 79 62 / 10 0 0 0 20 ALICE 59 80 46 78 59 / 10 0 0 0 20 ROCKPORT 60 77 54 74 63 / 0 0 0 0 20 COTULLA 53 79 46 77 57 / 0 0 0 0 20 KINGSVILLE 59 80 46 78 60 / 10 0 0 0 20 NAVY CORPUS 63 78 57 76 65 / 10 0 0 0 20 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && TMT/89...AVIATION
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 520 AM CDT THU OCT 31 2013 TXZ229>234-239>247-011030- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 520 AM CDT THU OCT 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH SOUTH TEXAS TODAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG (WIND) TODAY. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM MAY BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS...BUT ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY...BUT WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED OVER THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... .SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-011030- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT O'CONNOR- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 520 AM CDT THU OCT 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL PERSIST AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE OFFSHORE THIS LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. SCA CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. SEAS WILL BE 5 TO 8 FEET...BEFORE DIMINISHING THIS EVENING. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MARINE ZONES TODAY...AND ISOLATED STORMS WILL LINGER OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS THROUGH THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE GULF WATERS ON LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING...WITH STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW DEVELOPING ON SATURDAY. ADDITIONAL SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... .SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LK/TB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
The severe drought abated over the western portion of the county by the end of the month.
The severe drought abated over the western portion of the county by the end of the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 2013
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: 484241, 484242.