Funnel Cloud, Wilson
- When
- March 8, 5:20 PM CST to 5:24 PM CST
- Where
- Wilson County, 7 mi W of Floresville
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.174, -98.087 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Texas, March 8, 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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 8, 3:41 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 3:41 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 341 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001 UPPER LOW MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS AT LATE AFTERNOON. MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT IN CONTINUED EASTWARD MOVEMENT OUT OF TEXAS BY MORNING. HOWEVER...FOR THIS EVENING...DRYLINE PROGRESSING EAST AND COLD FRONT PROGRESSING SOUTH THROUGH CWA BY OVERNIGHT. SEVERE STORMS STILL POSSIBLE EASTERN CWA AHEAD OF DRYLINE AND NEAR UPPER LOW AS THERMODYNAMIC/DYNAMIC PROFILES FAVORABLE. LITTLE OR POPS WEST AND CENTRAL AS SOMEWHAT DRIER AND SUBSIDENT AIRMASS IN WAKE OF LOW. RATHER MOIST AIRMASS PERSIST AFTER SYSTEM...SO SKIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY. ETA TEMPERATURES SEEM OKAY AND WILL FOLLOW. NEXT SYSTEM SLATED FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY...SO WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS WITH SLIGHT BEGINNING SATURDAY NIGHT. 04. PRELIMS... AUS 48/64 48/65 6000 SAT 48/64 49/68 3000 DRT 45/68 50/72 0000 .EWX...NONE.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:20 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
- Hail in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Flood in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
- Hail in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, March 8, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Virginia, March 8, 2001
- Tornado in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Hail in Texas, March 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 8, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 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: 5233911.