1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 5, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR TO CLL PRELIM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 245 PM CDT THU JUL 5 2001 LITTLE PRECIPITATION OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPS CLIMBING UP
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Male collapsed from heat exposure while jogging and 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 | 2001-07-05 | 38 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2001
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: 5263580.