Funnel Cloud, Galveston
- When
- August 25, 10:00 AM CST to 10:05 AM CST
- Where
- Galveston County, Texas City
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.298, -94.811 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Texas, August 25, 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 25, 9:08 AM CST, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 9:08 AM CST, 52 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1008 AM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001 A LOT MORE ACTIVITY ON THE SCOPE THIS MORNING THAN YESTERDAY (OR OUR PREVIOUS THINKING). IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE HIGHER PWS HAVE MADE IT INTO THE AREA. WILL GO AHEAD AND BUMP POPS UP ACROSS CENTRAL/COASTAL ZONES/WATERS WITH THE UPDATE AND ADD THE MENTION OF ISOLATED POPS IN FOR THE NRN ZONES (WHICH ARE ALREADY IN THE CCF). BROKEN DECK OF MID AND HIGH CLOUDS MAY AGAIN HELP TO KEEP TEMP DOWN A DEGREE OR TWO (AS WAS THE CASE YESTERDAY ALSO). ELSE NO OTHER REALLY MAJOR CHANGES ARE PLANNED AT THIS TIME. 41/45 .HGX...NONE. UPDATED PRELIMS... CLL UB 099/074 096/074 095 113 IAH UB 096/073 093/073 093 223 GLS UB 090/080 089/080 089 213
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:59 UTC.
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
- Rip Current in Delaware, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Indiana, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, August 25, 2001
- Rip Currents in New Jersey, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in Texas, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5263460.