Flash Flood, Jasper
- When
- March 13, 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, 8 mi N of Jasper
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.744, -94.025 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, March 13, 1999
County Roads 29 and 23 flooded and impassable.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $10,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
County Roads 29 and 23 flooded and impassable.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Louisiana, March 13, 1999
- Winter Storm in Missouri, March 13 to 14, 1999
- Dense Fog in Nebraska, March 13, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 13, 1999
- Tornado in Alabama, March 13, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, March 13 to 14, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 13, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 13, 1999
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, March 13 to 14, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 13, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 13, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, March 13 to 14, 1999
More
Every storm in Texas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 1999
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: 5692564.