1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 23, 1:35 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 235 PM CDT MON APR 23 2001 REMNANTS OF THE PRIOR MCS STRUNG OUT FROM NEAR CROCKETT TO 11R TO SAT...COLD FRONT ALONG A TYR-CRS-JCT LINE. UPPER LOW IN THE PLAINS LIFTING AWAY QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST. UPPER TROUGH AXIS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH TONIGHT WITH A BULLSEYE OF UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE SPLATTERED OVER THE FA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. EXPECT THE FRONT TO MERGE WITH THE PREFRONTAL CONVECTION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THE LIFT/DAYTIME HEATING AND LL CONVERGENCE SHOULD OVERCOME THE CAP TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD PRECIP. AMOUNTS NEAR 1 INCH SEEM WELL WITHIN REACH AND PERHAPS SOME ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES. MAY STILL GET A FEW ISOLATED HAIL REPORTS SO WILL MENTION SEVERE IN COASTAL AND CENTRAL TIER OF ZFP THROUGH EARLY EVENING. FRONT SHOULD MOVE OFF THE COAST TONIGHT BETWEEN 10 PM AND 2 AM. OFFSHORE FLOW SHOULD WEAKEN WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH ONSHORE FLOW BEGINNING FRIDAY MORNING. DEWPOINTS SHOULD BE DROPPING INTO THE UPPER 30S TO 40S FOR A FEW DAYS...NICE DRY MILD WX WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S TO NEAR 80. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE EASTERN US WILL MOVE EAST AND WESTERN US RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO NM/CO/KS/W-TX. DOWNSTREAM FROM THE RIDGE TROUGHING OVER THE EASTERN US WILL BE THE RULE THROUGH FRIDAY...UPPER TROUGH OVER THE EAST COULD DROP A LOW DOWN INTO AR AND THEN RETROGRADES WEST UNDERNEATH THE RIDGE. WILL NOT PUT A GREAT DEAL OF CONFIDENCE IN THIS SCENARIO FOR LATE APRIL...JUNE MAYBE. TEMPS...WONT STRAY FAR FROM MOS--ROUGHLY PUT (AVN+NGM)/2. WILL SHOW SCEC OR SCA IN THE 20-60 NM OFFSHORE AREAS BASED ON SEAS. WINDS OFFSHORE MAY WILL PROBABLY SCA POSTFRONTAL ON TUESDAY AS GRADIENT TIGHTENS AND CAA PEAKS. 45/40/39 .HGX...SCEC/SCA COASTAL WATERS 20-60NM (WAITING TIL PRESS TIME) PRELIMS... CLL BU 055/075 049/078 049 610 IAH BU 057/077 050/077 049 610 GLS EB 064/075 060/075 060 630
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-240359- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 340 PM CDT MON APR 23 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THIS INCLUDES METRO HOUSTON AND OTHER CITIES SUCH AS BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION...CONROE...HUNTSVILLE...CROCKETT... LIVINGSTON...RICHMOND/ROSENBERG...WHARTON AND COLUMBUS AND GALVESTON. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. AT 330 PM THE FRONT WAS ALONG A TYLER TO AUSTIN LINE MOVING SOUTH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE WARMER AND MORE MOIST AIR ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT TIME IS 4 PM TO 8 PM...AND THE PRINCIPAL SEVERE THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. SOME ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND EVENTS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH COLLEGE STATION...HUNTSVILLE AND CROCKETT BY EARLY THIS EVENING...THROUGH THE HOUSTON METRO AREA BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND OFF THE COAST SHORTLY THEREAFTER. WIND SHEAR IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN CONSIDERABLY THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WOULD BE A LIMITING FACTOR FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE POSSIBILITY... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGER STORMS. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE BAYS AND COASTAL WATERS AFTER 8 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS SOURCES FOR THE LATEST FORECAST...STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff's office reported a fireworks stand was leveled and tops were torn off trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2001
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: 5240883.