Hail, Harris
- When
- June 29, 2:12 PM CST
- Where
- Harris County, 1 mi NW of Houston
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 29.750, -95.383
Dime size hail near Beltway 8 and U.S. Highway 290.
Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
3 hail, 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
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 Jun 29, 1:05 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:05 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 205 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 KHGX AND VIS/IR IMAGERY SHOW SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA OVER SERN TX EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY FORECAST ISSUES ARE POPS AND SEVERE/ HEAVY RAIN THREAT. THE 12Z NCEP MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT... PREFER THE ETA/AVN NOW OVER THE NGM. SIMILARLY...PREFER GENERALLY HIGHER FAN/MAV POPS OVER FWC. NO BIG CHANGES IN THE FORECAST...THE UPPER LOW DRIFTS SWWRD TOWARD CNTRL TX AND SHEARS APART OVER THE NEXT 3-5 DAYS. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL INCREASE SOME AS 0-6 KM WIND SHEAR INCREASES AND MID-LEVEL TEMPS COOL. LIKEWISE...THE THREAT FOR MORE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN INCREASES AS CONVECTION GETS MORE ORGANIZED AND PW INCREASES. TOO EARLY TO CONSIDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...BUT THE SITUATION WILL NEED CLOSE MONITORING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WILL RE-ISSUE SPS WITH HIGHLIGHT TOWARD FOLKS FREQUENTLY CHECKING THE FORECAST. THE MARINE FORECAST REMAINS QUIET THROUGH THE PERIOD. .HGX...NONE. 31/47/DH PRELIMS... CLL EE 073/092 072/091 072 343 IAH EE 071/090 072/090 072 344 GLS BE 080/087 079/087 079 344 NERN POPS 454 SWRN POPS 333
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:12 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Harris
- When
- June 29, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Harris County, Houston
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 29.733, -95.367
Quarter size hail in downtown Houston.
Funnel Cloud, Harris
- When
- June 29, 2:52 PM CST
- Where
- Harris County, Houston
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 29.857, -95.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel cloud reported in the Greenspoint Area.
Hail, Harris
- When
- June 29, 3:25 PM CST
- Where
- Harris County, Cypress
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 29.967, -95.700
Dime size hail at U.S. Highway 290.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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 Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
More
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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: 5256191, 5256247, 5256249, 5256248.