Name: Heat in Texas, August 22, 2001
Start: 2001-08-22T18:45
End: 2001-08-22T18:45
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 22, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
230 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001

KHGX AND VIS IMAGERY SHOW SHRA OVER COLORADO COUNTY. OTHERWISE
MOSTLY SUNNY ACROSS SERN TX EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN FORECAST
ISSUES ARE TEMPS THROUGH SAT...THEN POPS SUN-WED. THE 12Z NCEP
MODELS AND MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD TO EXCELLENT AGREEMENT
THROUGH 7 DAYS. NO PREFERENCE OTHER THAN AVN/MRF SEEM MOST
CONSISTENT AND EARLIEST TO PICK UP ON PATTERN CHANGES.

ISOLD AT BEST POPS EXPECTED THU-SAT. WILL NOT MENTION AND LET
NOWCASTS HANDLE AS TODAY. FWC/MAV TEMPS HAVE RUN 1-3F TOO COOL AT
CLL THE PAST FEW DAYS...ALMOST RIGHT ON AT IAH...AND 1-2F TOO WARM
AT GLS. WITH LITTLE PATTERN CHANGE THROUGH SAT...WILL SHADE GUIDANCE
AS MENTIONED. ALL MODELS POINT TO RIDGE BREAKDOWN AND A FULL
LATITUDE TROUGH CENTERING OVER SERN TX BY SUN. SOME INDICATIONS IN
THE AVN FOR AN ACTIVE BOUNDARY AND CONVECTION SUN...BUT AT THIS
RANGE WELL JUST GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE AND CONTINUE IT THROUGH WED
AS TROUGH REMAINS OVER THE AREA.

.HGX...NONE.

31/40/DO

PRELIMS...
CLL UU 074/101 075/100 074 000
IAH UU 072/098 073/097 073 000
GLS UU 081/091 081/091 081 000

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 22, 6:45 PM 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.

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	2001-08-22	45	Male	Outside/Open Areas	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: 5262773.