5 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 15, 2:45 PM CST, 1 minute earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 245 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 VISIBLE SATELLITE REVEALS RICH MOISTURE AXIS EXTENDING FROM DEEP SOUTH TEXAS INTO CENTRAL TX...WHERE PRECIP WAS ONGOING. ANOTHER BAND OF STRONG STORMS WAS MOVING INLAND ALG THE WARM FRONT FROM CALHOUN TO GONZALES COUNTY. STRONG VEERING WINDS AND DAY TIME HEATING RESULTING IN ISOLATED SUPERCELLS ATTM. CURRENT TOR WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 00Z. SPC MONITORING S TX FOR ANOTHER WW LATER THIS AFTN. BELIVE DRYING OUT WEST WILL MAINTAIN STORM DVLPMT ACROSS CNTRL COUNTIES INTO THE EVENING HOURS...WITH STRONG DIFLUENCE ALOFT ENHANCING ACTIVITY INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. LOW LVL JET DIMINISHES TONIGHT AS CLOSED UPR LOW BEGINS TO RETREAT. THIS WOULD LEAD TO SLOWER STORM MOTIONS AND HEAVY RAIN. WILL MAINTAIN HIGH POPS THROUGH FRI...THEN WILL DIMINISH SAT AS DRY RIDGE SETTLES INTO THE REGION FROM NE. WILL EXAMINE FFA AND MAY DROP WEBB COUNTY WHICH HAS NOT SEEN ANY RAINFALL YET. WEATHER QUIETS DOWN SUNDAY AS THE UPPER LOW WEAKENS AND MOVES OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES...FORCING DOWNSTREAM TROUGHING. THIS WILL BRING A DRY COOL FRONT INTO S TX MON. UPR TROF FINALLY OPENS UP AND TRACKS ACROSS TX WED WITH MAINLY MID/HIGH CLOUDS AND SLGT CHC PRECIP. SFC TROF AXIS WILL POSITION INTO OUR CNTRL ZONES THANKSGIVING DAY WITH NICE CONDITIONS OUT WEST AND SLGT CHC PRECIP EAST. NEAR NORMAL TEMPS ARE EXPECTED THRU SAT BEFORE DRIER AIR FILTERS IN MAKING FOR COOLER NIGHTTIME LOWS SAT NGT-TUE. MARINE...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER EXTREME WESTERN TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY INTO SOUTH TEXAS. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE OVER THE BAYS AND COASTAL WATERS INTO TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. WILL CONTINUE WITH SCEC CONDITIONS TONIGHT AND FRI. EXPECT WINDS TO SLOWLY DECREASE OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE UPPER DISTURBANCE WEAKENS. SHOULD SEE DRIER AIR OVER THE AREA BY SUNDAY. CRP TB 068/078 064/076 060 77230 VCT TB 067/076 060/075 055 55220 LRD TE 067/080 063/076 061 55341 75/71 .CRP...FFA ZONES TXZ229>234-240>247.
TXZ229>234-239>247-160300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1030 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...SLIGHT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE COASTAL BEND THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. BECAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE AND THE WIND SHEAR IS STRONG...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST CONCERN FOR TODAY HOWEVER IS FLOODING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SAME AREAS BRINGING A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE LIKELY...MAINLY OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
TXZ230>234-243>247-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1224 PM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ARANSAS...BEE...LIVE OAK... NUECES...CALHOUN...REFUGIO...VICTORIA...MCMULLEN...SAN PATRICIO... AND GOLIAD COUNTIES. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE AREA IS CAUSING A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TODAY. IN ADDITION TO POSSIBLE TORNADOS...PERSONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LARGE HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WITH THE SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/CRP
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:47 UTC.
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
5 Miles NE of George West - House damaged and large tree libs through roof - Shed blown away.
10 West of Beeville - On ground along FM799 and Live Oak County line.
Mobile home destroyed, roof damage to house next door. Near farm road 673 and Pioneer rd.
5 NW Goliad - On highway 239 halfway to Charco.
Sheriff reported Tornado along west side of Highway 183
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2001Warnings in Texas, November 2001
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: 5273252, 5273185, 5273253, 5273254, 5273255.