Texas, 2001

Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001 · NWS HGX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. 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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$11,000
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 25, 9:20 AM CST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 9:20 AM CST, 40 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1020 AM CDT FRI MAY 25 2001

PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER SERN TX AT MID MORNING. THE UPDATE
ISSUES ARE POPS...ISOLATED SEVERE THREAT...AND TEMPS. SFC ANALYSES
SHOW THE FRONT NEAR OUR SRN CWA BOUNDARY. VIS IMAGERY SHOWS
CONVECTION FIRING BEHIND THE FRONT BACK IN WCNTRL TX. OVERALL...THE
CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS IN GOOD SHAPE WITH LOWISH SCT POPS. AGREE
WITH SWODY1 THAT SEVERE THREAT IS LIMITED TO THE FAR SWRN ZONES.
EVEN THEN... CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS AND COOL/DRY ADVECTION LEAD TO
AN ISOLATED RISK AT BEST.

WILL UPDATE ZONES TO SLIGHTLY DROP TEMPS PER NEW COOLER FWC/LAMP
GUIDANCE AND CLOUDCOVER...MAKE MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO WINDS PER
CURRENT TRENDS...AND TO RECATEGORIZE POPS AS CHANCE OF OCCURRING
RATHER THAN AREAL CHANCE SINCE THERE IS NO ONGOING ACTIVITY.

.HGX...NONE.

31/47/WT

UPDATE PRELIMS...
CLL EB 083/066 086/068 087 222   LOWER MAX TODAY
IAH EB 084/068 088/069 088 222   DITTO
GLS EB 082/074 084/074 084 222   DITTO

The radar

The Houston radar (KHGX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:02 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Matagorda

When
May 25, 10:00 AM CST to 10:14 AM CST
Where
Matagorda County, Matagorda
Rating
F0
Path length
1 mi
Path width
50 yd
Property damage
$10,000
Reported by
OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates
28.700, -95.950

Army Corps of Engineers reported a large waterspout moved onshore near the Matagorda Locks and lifted trees.

Hail, Matagorda

When
May 25, 3:45 PM CST
Where
Matagorda County, 5 mi N of Bay City
Measured
0.75 in hail
Property damage
$1,000
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
29.050, -95.950

What these are

Tornado
A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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

More

Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2001Warnings 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: 5245088, 5245089.