Funnel Cloud, Matagorda
- When
- May 13, 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Matagorda County, Palacios
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 28.786, -96.004 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Clouds in Texas, May 13, 2001
2 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 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 13, 8:35 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:35 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 935 AM CDT SUN MAY 13 2001 CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK. ISOLATED/WIDELY SCT CONVECTION HAVE BEEN FIRING OFF OF ONE BOUNDARY JUST AT THE COAST THIS MORNING...BUT NONE HAVE MADE IT TOO FAR INLAND. KHGX VAD WIND PROFILE INDICATING A SLIGHTLY DEEPER LAYER OF SELY WINDS AT THE LOWER LEVELS THIS MORNING THAN YESTERDAY BUT WINDS ALOFT ARE STILL NELY. LOCAL 12Z SOUNDINGS ARE ALSO SHOWING A LITTLE LESS INSTABILITY THAN YESTERDAY. BUT GIVEN CURRENT SPATE OF ACTIVITY GOING ON...THE 20%S WE ARE CARRYING IN THE ZONES LOOK JUST FINE. 41/45 .HGX...NONE. PRELIMS... CLL BB 086/063 087/064 088 210 IAH BB 086/063 087/064 088 210 GLS BB 083/071 083/073 084 210
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:00 UTC.
Event by event
2 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Galveston
- When
- May 13, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Galveston County, Galveston
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
- Coordinates
- 29.298, -94.811 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- Flash Flood in Utah, May 13, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, May 13, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, May 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, May 13 to 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, May 13 to 14, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, May 13, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, May 13, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 13 to 14, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, May 13, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, May 13, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, May 13, 2001
- Hail in Iowa, May 13, 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: 5245170, 5245171.