Abundant rainfall occurred over the Coastal Bend, Brush Country, and portions of the Mid-Coast regions through the month of September. This alleviated the severe drought conditions over parts of South Texas.
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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.
Abundant rainfall occurred over the Coastal Bend, Brush Country, and portions of the Mid-Coast regions through the month of September. This alleviated the severe drought conditions over parts of South Texas. Below normal rainfall occurred over the Victoria Crossroads where severe drought conditions lingered through 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 Aug 31, 11:43 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1243 AM CDT MON SEP 1 2014 .DISCUSSION...SEE AVIATION SECTION FOR 06Z TAFS. && .AVIATION...EVEN THOUGH GOES SOUNDER SHOWS THAT AIR MASS OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS HAS DRIED OUT SOME DURING THE EVENING HOURS...THERE REMAINS HIGH BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WITH DEWPOINT TEMPS IN THE UPPER 70S OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS. LOW CLOUD SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED AREAS OF STRATUS/MVFR CEILINGS FROM HEBBRONVILLE TO BEEVILLE TO VICTORIA. LOW LEVEL WIND FLOW WILL BE WEAK DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...SHOULD SEE AREAS OF FOG FORM FROM ALICE TO BEEVILLE TO VICTORIA WITH MAINLY MVFR VSBYS BUT IFR VSBYS COULD OCCUR FROM 09-13Z IN THE VICTORIA AREA. EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS WILL BECOME PREVALENT BETWEEN 14-15Z. ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR COASTAL AREAS THIS MORNING AND THEN INLAND FOR THIS AFTERNOON BUT CHANCES FOR CONVECTION WILL BE SLIGHT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 958 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014/ DISCUSSION...WEAK UPPER TROUGH/WEAKNESS IN HEIGHT FIELD (500MB) OVER THE COAST. COPIOUS MSTR REMAINS OVER THE COASTAL BEND/MSA THIS EVENING (GOES SOUNDER PWAT VALUES.) NAM AND GFS DIVERGE WITH REGARD TO CIN VALUES OVER LAND OVERNIGHT WITH GFS DEPICTING HIGH VALUES AND THE CORRESPONDING NAM VALUES NEAR NIL. WL COMPROMISE WITH INTRODUCTION OF LESS THAN 20 PERCENT OF SHOWERS OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES AND 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS (FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH SREF QPF PROBABILITIES.) ANTICIPATE THAT WIND WILL REMAIN PREDOMINATELY BELOW SCEC OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OVERNIGHT (NAM/GFS/LOCAL ARW/RAP DETERMINISTIC.) THERE IS A SMALL RISK FOR FOG OVER MAINLY THE WRN CWA OVERNIGHT YET NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO ADD TO GRIDS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 78 92 79 87 78 / 20 40 30 60 30 VICTORIA 77 94 77 91 76 / 20 40 20 40 20 LAREDO 78 100 80 96 80 / 10 20 10 40 20 ALICE 77 95 77 89 77 / 10 40 20 60 20 ROCKPORT 80 89 80 87 80 / 30 40 30 60 30 COTULLA 77 99 77 94 76 / 10 20 10 30 20 KINGSVILLE 78 91 78 88 79 / 20 40 30 60 30 NAVY CORPUS 80 88 80 87 80 / 30 40 30 60 30 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && TMT/89...AVIATION
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 547 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014 TXZ229>234-239>247-011100- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 547 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY OVER THE COASTAL BEND...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE BRUSH COUNTRY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY DEVELOP WITH SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ACCOMPANY ANY OF THE SLOWER MOVING STORMS. MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX VALUES FROM 105 TO 109 DEGREES WILL BE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...BUT ANY RAINFALL TOTALS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-011100- 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- 547 AM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY OVER THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought continued over all of the county through the month.
Severe drought continued over the eastern portion of the county through the month.
Severe drought ended over the county by the end of the month.
Severe drought ended over the county by the end of the month.
Severe drought ended over 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 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 2014
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: 544327, 544328, 544329, 544330, 544331.