3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Oct 11, 1:35 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 235 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 INTERESTING FCST NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. STG UPR LVL TROF WILL SWING THROUGH THE ERN PART OF TX LATE TDA AND THIS EVENING. AM NOT OVERLY IMPRESSED THE THE ENVIRONMENT IT HAS TO WORK WITH...IF THE ETA MODEL SOUNDINGS TURN OUT TO BE CORRECT. HELICITIES HOLD BLO 100...AND CAPES MAX OUT THIS MORNING AROUND 1500. JET PSN HAS MOST OF THE AREA IN A RR QUAD REGION THIS MORNING...THEN POSITIONS ITSELF OVERHEAD DRG THE AFTN...LEAVING ONLY THE SWRN ZONES IN THE FAVORED AREA. GIVEN DAY ONE OTLK AND THE FACT THAT SVR IS ALREADY MENTIONED IN ZFP...WILL LEAVE IT IN. THINK THE EVENT UPCOMING ON FRI NGT WILL BE MORE IMPRESSIVE HOWEVER. CAPES ARE HIGHER...WET BULB ZEROES ARE LOWER...AND THE UPR LVL DYNAMICS ARE STRONGER. LATEST SPC DAY TWO OTLK AGREES...AND HAS MUCH OF OUR AREA IN A MDT RISK. AT THE SFC...LOOKS LIKE BOUNDARY WILL ENTER NRN AND CTRL ZONES TDA THEN WASH OUT. MOISTURE LVLS ARE FAIRLY HIGH...WITH FCST PW VALUES CLOSE TO 2 INCHES IN SPOTS TDA. MOS AND FAN SPLASHING 80+ POPS OVER A LARGE PTN OF THE REGION. WILL GO CAT POPS ALL BUT SW. MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS TAPER OFF TNGT INTO FRI...THEN SECOND ROUND WILL AFFECT AREA FRI NGT. MOS POPS 4TH PERIOD DONT PICK UP ON THIS. WILL GO LKLY NUMBERS 4TH PERIOD...EXCEPT 50 SW. DRYING BEHIND SECOND FNT MOVES IN QUICKLY BY SAT. MIGHT GO AHD AND YANK POPS FOR SAT N PTNS. AVN HAS BEEN CONSISTENT WITH SHOWING NRN HALF OF OUR AREA DRY BY 12Z SAT...AND NEW 60 HR ETA AGREES. FCST FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND THROUGH MIDWEEK LOOKS QUITE NICE AFT FROPA. BOTH CLL AND IAH GOT TO 88 DEGS YESTERDAY. THINK ENOUGH SUN MIGHT PEEK THROUGH NW TO ALLOW TEMPS TO EXCEED MOS FCST TDA. OTRW NUMBERS LOOK OK. MARINE SIDE RELATIVELY BENIGN UNTIL 2ND FROPA. NO FLAGS. .HGX...NONE. 46/41/48 PRELIMS... CLL TE 083/066 088/060 078 833 IAH TE 084/068 087/065 080 833 GLS TE 083/075 083/072 081 843 (SW POPS 533)
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-112200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 440 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 ...ISOLATED AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE TODAY... ...MORE SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT... A MOIST AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND A WEAKENING COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH INTO THE REGION WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE AREAS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF AN INCH OR TWO PER HOUR...WITH TOTALS OF 4 OR 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. BE ALERT FOR HIGH STANDING WATER IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN TODAY. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT ONE OR TWO OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL OR WIND GUSTS ABOVE 50 MPH. A MORE SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK MAY BE ON TAP FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. A VERY STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION BY SATURDAY. SOUTH WINDS NEAR THE SURFACE WILL BECOME STRONGER AND TURN MORE WESTERLY WITH INCREASING ALTITUDE. THIS...COMBINED WITH STRONG INSTABILITY...WILL CAUSE SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO ROTATE...POSSIBLY PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND EVEN ISOLATED TORNADOES. A LOWERING FREEZING LEVEL IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALSO LEAD TO A GREATER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAILSTONES. CONSIDER MAKING PREPARATIONS TODAY AND FRIDAY FOR SEVERE WEATHER FRIDAY NIGHT. MAKE SURE TO HAVE BATTERY OPERATED APPLIANCES AND FLASHLIGHTS READY IN CASE POWER IS INTERRUPTED. AND REMEMBER...THE BEST PLACE TO BE IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO IS INSIDE A REINFORCED STRUCTURE AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED LATER TODAY AND ON FRIDAY CONCERNING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER. END/46
The Houston radar (KHGX), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:02 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
120 homes, 3 apartment complexes, 2 schools, and some businesses damaged by a tornado. The tornado touched down near Fairmont and Shaver, moving northeast to near the intersection of Southmore and Red-Bluff Road.
The League City Police Department reported a funnel cloud near Baybrook Mall in southeast Houston.
A meteorologist reported a tornado near Highway 225.
Sheriff's office reported trees and power lines down.
Sheriff's office reported trees and power lines down in Tomball.
Police Department reported trees and power lines down in Freeport.
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, October 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: 5271610, 5271611, 5271612, 5271613, 5271614, 5271708.