Name: Heat in Texas, July 11, 2001
Start: 2001-07-11T18:00
End: 2001-07-11T18:00
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 Jul 11, 1:00 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 1:00 PM CST, 5 hours before

SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
200 PM CDT WED JUL 11 2001

PATN LOOKS SIMILAR FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS. HOT AND HUMID AT THE SFC.
PW VALUES IN THE 1.7-1.8" RANGE WITH STG RDG OVR OK DOMINATING WHILE
GRADUALLY DRIFTING W. WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE FOR TMRW AND FRI...
LEAVING A CLOSET 10 PCT IN FOR THE COAST...AND WILL LET MID SHIFT
TNGT AND DAY SHIFT TMRW DECIDE WHETHER IT REQUIRES MENTIONING IN THE
ZFP.

AVN STILL PUSHING WSHFT LN INTO CWA SATURDAY. HARD TO CALL THIS
BOUNDARY A FNT GIVEN AMT OF CHG IN BOTH TEMPS AND DWPTS ACRS IT.
AVN SHOWS A SWATH OF 2" PW SAT NGT INTO SUN. WILL USE CHC POPS FOR
THE WEEKEND. MRF PLUNGES THE FNT WELL INTO THE GULF. WINDS BEHIND IT
OVR SETX BECOME ONSHORE AGAIN FAIRLY QUICKLY. WITH MARGINAL MOISTURE
IN THE PICTURE THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...WILL KEEP SLGT CHC IN
THROUGH WED. TEMPS WILL FEATURE LTL CHG THROUGH DAY 7.

MOS TEMPS HAVE BEEN IN THE BALLPARK...JUST A DEG OR TWO WARM DRG THE
DAY. WILL CONT THIS TREND.

NO CHGS IN THE CWF ANTICIPATED.

.HGX...NONE.

46/42/BT

PRELIMS...
CLL UU 075/097 075/097 075 000
IAH BB 075/096 075/096 075 ---
GLS BB 080/091 080/091 080 -1-

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: July 11, 6:00 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 from heat exposure while working outside.

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	2001-07-11	72	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, July 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: 5263582.