Thunderstorm Wind, St. Mary
- When
- August 5, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- St. Mary County, Morgan City
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 29.700, -91.200
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 5, 2001
Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $5,000
- 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.
Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 5, 1:22 PM CST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:22 PM CST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 222 PM CDT SUN AUG 5 2001 .TONITE... THE CRCLN ASSOCD WITH BARRY WILL MAINTAIN EVENING SHWRS ACRS SWRN LOUISIANA. HWVR...THE NOCTURNAL SINKING AIR SHUD EXTINGUISH MOSTOF THE SHWRS BEFORE MIDNIGHT. XPC OVERNITE MINIMUMS TO BE NEAR NORMAL. THE ATYPICAL NLY WINDS WILL KEEP THE NEAR SFC AIR CONTINENTAL...THE CSTL BACLIN ZONE WILL BE RATHER WEEK. .MON... BARRY SIDESTEPS TO THE WEST INTO SWRN ALABAMA. CLOUDS INCREASE AS MSTR FROM THE NORTH STREAMS SWD...OVERRIDING THE FILM OF CONTINENTAL AIR. THE CLOUD COVER SHUD TEMPER THE AFTN MAXIMUMS. .MON NITE THRU TUE NITE... BARRY CONTS ITS NWD TREK. CLOUDS WILL LINGER ARND. XPC SHWRS TO END IN THE EVENING HOURS...BUT RETURN ONCE AGAIN DURG THE AFTN HOURS. .LCH...NONE .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 73/90/74/90/73 25252 BPT 75/93/75/91/75 13131 LCH 74/93/75/90/75 242424 LFT 75/91/75/90/75 24242 TRARES
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Iowa, August 5, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 5, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, August 5, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 5, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 5 to 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 5, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 5, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Colorado, August 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 5, 2001
- Heat in North Dakota, August 5, 2001
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, August 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: 5264091.