Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2001

Name: Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2001
Start: 2001-01-01T00:00
End: 2001-01-31T00:00
Location: Texas

January 1 to 31, 2001 · NWS BRO · 8 events in 8 counties and zones

8 drought, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 8 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: $25 million
Events: 8

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 Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 31, 8:15 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 8:15 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before

DEEP SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
815 PM CST SUN DEC 31 2000

COLD FRONT IS GRADUALLY FILLING INTO COASTAL TROF ALONG THE LOWER TX
COAST.  TIMING ON CURRENT PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD.  HAVE NOTICED AN
INCREASE IN LOW TOPPED CONVECTION SINCE 01Z MAINLY OVER THE NEARBY
GULF WATERS AND JUST INLAND.  THE 88D INDICATED THAT CONVECTION WAS
FORMING IN STRONG WARM AIR ADVECTION ALONG COASTAL TROF JUST AHEAD
OF FRONT UNDERNEATH THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF STRONG JET MAX
MOVING ACROSS EAST TX.  IN ADDITION...LATEST IR LOOP INDICATED
CLOUD TOPS HAVE COOLED TO -4 C.  THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT
MAINLY IN ADVANCE OF FRONT WHICH WAS MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE
CENTRAL TX AREA.  THE FRONT SHOULD REACH THE LOWER TX COAST BY
MIDNIGHT 2001.  THEREFORE...DO NOT PLAN TO MAKE ANY CHANGES TO
PREVIOUS.

MARINE...COLD FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH TONIGHT...MERGING WITH A COASTAL
TROF AS IT ADVANCES OFFSHORE.  SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
WILL THUS CONTINUE ALONG THE LINE OF CONVERGENCE OVER THE WATERS.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UP NOW DUE TO FRESH SOUTHEAST WINDS AND 7 FEET
SEAS AT BUOY 020.  SCA ALL MARINE ZONES EXPECTED TONIGzHT AFTER FROPA
DUE TO STRONG NORTH WINDS.

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

GUERRERO/ABBOTT

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The radar

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

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Event by event

8 drought. Local standard time, as filed.

Drought, Brooks

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Brooks forecast zone
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 27.032, -98.219 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Cameron

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Cameron forecast zone
Crop damage: $9.9 million
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 26.152, -97.453 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Hidalgo

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Hidalgo forecast zone
Crop damage: $9.8 million
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 26.397, -98.181 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Jim Hogg

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Jim Hogg forecast zone
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 27.043, -98.697 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Kenedy

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Kenedy forecast zone
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 26.928, -97.636 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Starr

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Starr forecast zone
Crop damage: $3.9 million
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 26.562, -98.738 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Willacy

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Willacy forecast zone
Crop damage: $1.4 million
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 26.477, -97.592 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought, Zapata

When: January 1, 12:00 AM CST to January 31, 12:00 AM CST
Where: Zapata forecast zone
Reported by: OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates: 27.001, -99.169 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The United States Department of Agriculture-Farm Service Agency, received a Presidential Disaster Declaration in December of 2000. This declaration was issued for the persistent drought which included the remaining 6 counties of deep south Texas, specifically, Brooks, Jim Hogg, Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy, and Kenedy counties. Both Zapata and Starr counties received declarations in August of 2000. The Farm Service Agency estimated approximately 25 million dollars combined in damages in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy counties. This value does not include Brooks or Jim Hogg counties and does not reflect actual losses or other estimates that any other USDA Agencies may have compiled.Monthly rainfall departures averaged about a half to an inch below normal in January 2001, the first month of the new year. Lack of beneficial rainfall continued to keep all of deep south Texas in a moderate to severe drought. Storage at Falcon reservoir is 46 feet below conservation level, and 37 feet below conservation at Lake Amistad.

What these are

Drought: A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, January 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: 5230984, 5230985, 5230986, 5230987, 5230988, 5230989, 5230990, 5231088.