1 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 26, 10:55 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1055 AM CST MON NOV 26 2001 WILL SEND OUT A ZONE UPDATE TO RAISE THE POPS A LITTLE BIT. SHOWER COVERAGE IS A MORE EXTENSIVE THAN WAS EXPECTED. .HGX...SCEC GULF WATERS OUT 20-60 NM. 42/37/TF PRELIMS (RAISED 1ST PERIOD POPS)... CLL ET 076/051 060/040 045 345 IAH ET 077/056 064/048 050 356 GLS ET 076/065 068/054 056 356
The Houston radar (KHGX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:17 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down in Dayton, at Highway 321 and FM 1008, damaging a county equipment barn roof on Sawmill Road, and ripping down power lines.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5274723.