Funnel Cloud, Harrison
- When
- August 10, 5:04 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County, 6 mi N of Biloxi
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.416, -89.082 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 1:15 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 1:15 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 215 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 MESO-ETA APPEARS TO HAVE A BETTER GRASP OF THE DEVELOPING SYNOPTIC PATTERN. INITIAL S/W TROF MOVING SLOWLY SWD INTO NRN LA/NRN MS THIS AFTN ACCOMPANED BY NUMEROUS SHOWERS/TSTMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE SWD TONIGHT AND SAT TO BE FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER WEAK S/W TROF LATE SAT NIGHT AND SUN. PWS OF 2 INCHES OR GREATER WILL CONTINUE WITH MEAN RHS WELL ABOVE 70 PCT. A WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL LIKELY MOVE SWD INTO THE CENTRAL COAST REGION APPROACHING THE COAST BY LATE MON AND MON NIGHT. THUS THE DYNAMICS APPEAR TO BE COMING TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER WET SPELL FOR THE CWA. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT 3 OR 4 DAYS. MCB 72/90/72/89 4646 BTR 75/90/75/91 4535 MSY 76/90/75/90 3535 GPT 74/88/74/87 4636 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 05
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Texas, August 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2001
Sources
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: 5264103.