Name: Heat in Texas, August 1, 2001
Start: 2001-08-01T07:30
End: 2001-08-01T07:30
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 1, 1:30 AM CST, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 1:30 AM CST, 6 hours before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
230 AM CDT WED AUG 1 2001

MODELS SHOW PIECE OF UPR LVL ENERGY OVR LA SLIDING SWWD TDA ACRS OUR
GULF WATERS. ETA SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST HANDLE ON MOISTURE AND
LOCATION OF FEATURES...BUT ITS QPF IS FAR OVERDONE IN COVERAGE AND
INTENSITY GIVEN LACK OF ACTIVITY ATTM. THE AVN LOOKS TO HAVE THE
ENHANCED MOISTURE INITIALIZED A BIT TOO FAR N.

PW VALUES FCST TO RISE TO ARND 2" TDA ALG THE COAST AND JUST INLAND.
WITH UPR LVL ENERGY PASSING BY TO THE S...AND THE USUAL SEABREEZE
BNDRY EXPECTED THIS AFTN...SHD SEE AT LEAST SOME SCT CONVECTION SERN
HALF OF THE AREA TDA. POPS WILL RANGE FROM 20 NW TO 40 SE. MOS TEMPS
LOOK IN THE BALLPARK.

UPR LVL ENERGY IS W OF CWA THU AND PW VALUES FALL BACK INTO THE
1.6-1.8" RANGE. WILL USE 20 POPS CTRL AND S...WITH ONLY ISOLD
SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED ALG THE SEABREEZE FNT.

AVN DEVELOPS A CLOSED LOW OVR THE SERN STATES BY THE WEEKEND...THEN
EXTENDS A SHEAR AXIS OVR US BY 120 HRS (LATE SUNDAY). THE SFC PATN
IS A BIT MORE COMPLEX. IT GENERATES A WEAK CIRCULATION OVR THE ERN
GULF (CURRENTLY THE CUBA/HISPANIOLA/BAHAMAS TROP WAVE)...LOSES
IT...THEN SHOWS IT AGAIN OVR FLA...ALG WITH ANOTHER BROAD WEAK
CIRCULATION OVR THE BAY OF CAMPECHE THIS WEEKEND. WILL MAKE NO CHGS
TO EXTENDED POPS.

.HGX...NONE.

46/41/48

PRELIMS...
CLL BB 097/074 097/075 097 21-
IAH EB 095/0E73 095/073 096 312
GLS EB 089/080 089/080 090 412

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Heat, Harris

When: August 1, 7:30 AM CST
Where: Harris forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: GOVT OFFICIAL
Coordinates: 29.857, -95.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Male died of heat exposure in his home.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Heat, Harris	2001-08-01	75	Male	Permanent Home	Direct

What these are

Heat: Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, 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: 5262772.