Funnel Cloud, Galveston
- When
- July 7, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Galveston County, Texas City
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 29.298, -94.811 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Texas, July 7, 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 Jul 7, 1:05 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:05 PM CST, 10 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 205 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2001 H5 RDG OVR THE SRN PLAINS TO REMAIN ABT STATIONARY NEXT TWO DAYS. AVN/MRF SHOW THE RDG SHIFTING WEST MID TO LATE WEEK. QUITE A BIT OF ACTIVITY FLARED UP OVR THE GULF WATERS AND JUST INLAND TDA. CONVECTION OVR LAND SHD DIMINISH WITH LOSS OF HTG. WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN FOR THIS EVENING...AND AGAIN IN THE PREDAWN HRS COAST. MOISTURE LEVELS REMAIN ABT THE SAME TMRW. ANOTHER WEAK VORT MOVES WWD UNDER THE RDG. SHD KEEP MOST OF THE ACTIVITY OFSHR WITH A FEW CELLS MVG INLAND. UPR LVL SUPPORT IS WEAKER TMRW VERSUS TDA. WILL GO WITH 20S FOR THE COAST...10 JUST INLAND AND NO MENTION FAR N. SIMILAR SITU FOR MON. WILL UP MAX TEMP FCST A HALF CAT MON. 850 MB WARMS A BIT MORE BY THEN...AND EXPECT AT LEAST AS MUCH SUNSHINE TMRW AND MONDAY AS TDA. GETTING CLOSE TO HEAT ADV CRITERIA...LOCAL GUIDANCE USES 108 DEGS FOR TWO CONSEC DAYS AS A THRESHOLD. TEMP OF 96 AND DWPT OF 73 YIELDS INDEX OF 106. WILL REISSUE HEAT SPS WITH AFTN PKG. WINDS AND SEAS UNDER CONTROL OVR THE MARINE AREA. NO FLAGS. .HGX...NONE. 46/36/39 PRELIMS... CLL BB 0.74/096 075/097 075 000 IAH BB 074/095 075/096 075 111 GLS BB 080/091 079/091 079 121 (221 SW ZONES)
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:12 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
- Heat in Missouri, July 7 to 10, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 7 to 9, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 7, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Heat in Kentucky, July 7 to 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 7, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 7 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5259897.