Funnel Cloud, Brazoria
- When
- May 7, 1:17 PM CST
- Where
- Brazoria County, Quintana
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.168, -95.434 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Clouds in Texas, May 7, 2001
3 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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
- 3
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 7, 8:15 AM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 8:15 AM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 915 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 AIRMASS HAS STABILIZED SOME FOLLOWING OVERNIGHT CONVECTION WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S ACROSS SE TX. HOWEVER...12Z CRP SOUNDING SHOWS CAPE OF 1600...LI OF -6 AND VERY LITTLE CAP. COOL FRONT LOCATED ACROSS NORTH TX WITH SOME DECENT PRESSURE RISES BEHIND IT. EXPECT FRONT TO REACH NRN ZONES THIS AFTN AND SERVE AS A NEW FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. 06Z MESOETA RUN SHOWS CAPES CLIMBING TO 2500-3000 RANGE ACROSS NRN ZONES BY LATE TODAY ALTHOUGH DYNAMICS ARE LACKING. TEMPS ARE COOLER THIS MORNING BUT AMPLE SUNSHINE SHOULD ALLOW TEMPS TO REACH THE MID 80S INLAND. WILL LOWER POPS FOR CENTRAL ZONES/COAST FOR THIS AFTN BUT WILL LEAVE POPS ALONE IN THE NORTH NEARER FRONT. 35/47/48 .HGX...NONE. PRELIMS... CLL BB 084/065 082/062 083 443 IAH BB 084/067 083/063 084 343 GLS BB 080/071 080/069 080 243
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:15 UTC.
Event by event
3 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Brazoria
- When
- May 7, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Brazoria County, Freeport
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.168, -95.434 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud, Fort Bend
- When
- May 7, 4:40 PM CST to 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Fort Bend County, Richmond
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.528, -95.771 (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
- Heat in California, May 7 to 11, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 7, 2001
- Flash Flooding in U.S. Virgin Islands, May 7 to 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 7, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 7, 2001
- High Wind in North Dakota, May 7, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 7, 2001
- Heat in California, May 7 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Texas, May 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 7, 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: 5245155, 5245156, 5245157.