Funnel Cloud, Harris
- When
- September 5, 12:05 PM CST to 12:10 PM CST
- Where
- Harris County, Seabrook
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.857, -95.392 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Texas, September 5, 2001
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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.
- 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
- 1
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 Sep 5, 8:40 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 8:40 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 940 AM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 KHGX SHOWS SCT TSRA/SHRA WITH MDT TO HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NWRN ZONES. EXPECT SOME STANDING WATER IN THESE AREAS BUT NOT MUCH MORE AS NWRD MOVEMENT AROUND 15 KTS SHOULD HAVE THE STORMS CLEAR THE AREA BY 11 AM. THE MAIN UPDATE ISSUES ARE POPS AND FLOOD RISK. 12Z RAOBS AND VIS/WV IMAGERY SHOW THE MOIST AIR AXIS MAINLY OVER CNTRL TX...HENCE THE HIGHEST POPS AND LARGEST FLOOD THREAT OVER THE WRN CWA. THE CURRENT FORECAST COVERS THIS WELL...SO NO CHANGES. .HGX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALONG AND WEST OF I-45 TODAY. PRELIMS... CLL TB 089/073 094/074 094 622 IAH TB 088/072 092/073 093 522 GLS TB 088/078 088/078 089 512
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:03 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 5, 2001
- Tornadoes and Heavy Rain in Texas, September 5, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Texas, September 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 5, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, September 5, 2001
- Dust Storm in Nevada, September 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, September 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, September 5 to 6, 2001
- Waterspout in Florida, September 5, 2001
- Rip Current in American Samoa, September 5 to 8, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, September 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: 5267730.