Below normal rainfall occurred over the northern portions of Goliad and Victoria Counties during the month of February. Severe drought lingered over this portion of South Texas through the month.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 episode as NWS CRP wrote it up.
Below normal rainfall occurred over the northern portions of Goliad and Victoria Counties during the month of February. Severe drought lingered over this portion of South Texas 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 Jan 31, 10:58 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
1058 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2015
.DISCUSSION...UPDATE FOR 06Z AVIATION BRIEFING.
&&
.AVIATION...HIGH UNCERTAINTY REGARDING LATE NIGHT CIGS/VSBYS. FOR
NOW HAVE VFR PREVAILING BUT WOULD NOT COMPLETELY RULE OUT A PERIOD
OF IFR/LIFR CONDITIONS AROUND SUNRISE AND INTO SUN MRNG. AVIATION
GUIDANCE HAS BEEN PERSISTENTLY INDICATING THAT IFR/LIFR CONDITIONS
WILL OCCUR AT ALL TERMINALS TONIGHT...BUT GUIDANCE HAS NOT
HANDLED EARLIER EVENING CONDITIONS VERY WELL. IN ADDITION...LLVL
WIND FLOW IS NOT PROG TO BECOME OVERLY CONDUCIVE FOR A SIGNIFICANT
STRATUS/FOG EVENT. THUS...FOR NOW...WILL HAVE AREA TAFS AT VFR TO
START THE TAF PERIOD AND HINT AT SCT IFR/LIFR CIGS DVLPNG AROUND
SUNRISE. IF CONDITIONS DO END UP DETERIORATING...VFR SHOULD RETURN
BY MID/LATE MRNG AND CONTINUE THRU THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY.
STRONG SRLY LLJ EARLY IN THE TAF PERIOD MAY LEAD TO NON CONVECTIVE
LLWS BEFORE LLJ DECREASES IN INTENSITY LATE IN THE NIGHT. SW/WRLY
WINDS 5 TO 10 KT FROM MID MRNG TO MID AFTN BEFORE PRE FRONTAL
TROUGH SLIDES THROUGH LATE IN THE DAY...FOLLOWED DAY A STRONG
FROPA LATE IN THE TAF PERIOD.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
CORPUS CHRISTI 62 75 46 53 44 / 40 20 20 10 20
VICTORIA 59 74 41 52 40 / 50 40 20 10 10
LAREDO 59 76 48 54 42 / 30 10 10 10 30
ALICE 60 77 46 54 42 / 40 20 20 10 20
ROCKPORT 62 68 45 52 46 / 40 30 20 10 10
COTULLA 57 73 45 55 41 / 30 20 10 10 10
KINGSVILLE 61 78 47 54 43 / 40 20 20 10 20
NAVY CORPUS 62 70 47 53 47 / 40 20 20 10 20
&&
.CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
GM...GALE WATCH FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: 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.
&&
RH/79...AVIATIONHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 627 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2015 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-020030- 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-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 627 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH TEXAS AND THE COASTAL WATERS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS AND THE COASTAL WATERS SUNDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY....WITH GUSTS EXCEEDING GALE FORCE POSSIBLY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. A GALE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE OFFSHORE GULF WATERS SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought continued over the northern portion of the county.
Severe drought continued over the northwestern portion of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 2015
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: 556119, 556120.