Funnel Cloud, Jackson
- When
- May 12, 11:57 AM CST
- Where
- Jackson County, Lolita
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 28.954, -96.578 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in Texas, May 12, 2001
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 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
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 May 12, 8:45 AM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 8:45 AM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 945 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 2001 PER MORNING OBS/SFC ANALYSES...BOUNDARIES ABOUND. IT APPEARS THAT THE MOST PROMINENT ONE IS JUST ONSHORE OF THE COAST. SO WITH SOME HEATING THIS AFTN...THE CENTRAL/SRN PORTIONS OF THE CFWA COULD BE GROUND ZERO FOR DEVELOPMENT LATER TODAY. 12Z SOUNDINGS STILL SUP- PORTIVE OF ISOLATED SEVERE CONVECTION (-8/-9 LIS,3200 CAPE). WEAK VERTICAL SHEAR/STEERING CURRENTS ALSO INDICATIVE OF LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SO WILL TWEAK POPS UP SLIGHTLY FOR THE UPDATE. 41/45 .HGX...NONE. PRELIMS... CLL EB 083/063 084/063 086 523 IAH BB 084/064 084/064 086 633 GLS BB 081/071 081/071 082 433
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 156 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Liberty
- When
- May 12, 6:15 PM CST to 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Liberty County, Hardin
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.150, -94.733
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in California, May 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, May 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, May 12, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 12, 2001
- Hail in Florida, May 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 12, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Massachusetts, May 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 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: 5245095, 5245094.