Thunderstorm Wind, Iberia
- When
- January 29, 10:35 AM CST
- Where
- Iberia County, Jefferson Is
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.983, -91.967
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
Trees were blown down from Avery Island to Jefferson Island in Iberia Parish.
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
- $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.
Trees were blown down from Avery Island to Jefferson Island in Iberia Parish.
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 Jan 29, 10:00 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 10:00 AM CST, 35 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1000 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001
CURRENTLY...A WEAKENING SQUALL LINE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE
EASTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA FROM SIMMESPORT TO INTRACOASTAL
CITY AND INTO THE GULF WATERS BEYOND 60 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE
WAS MOVING OFF TO THE EAST AT NEARLY 40 MPH. LINE AND COLD FRONT
SHOULD BE OUT OF THE FORECAST AREA SHORTLY AFTER NOON.
BEHIND THE FRONT TEMPS DROP QUICKLY TO NEAR 50...ABOUT A 15 TO 20
DEGREE DIFFERENCE.
CLEARING LINE IN CENTRAL TEXAS FROM WACO TO SAN ANTONIO MAKING STEADY
PROGRESS TO THE EAST AND SHOULD MAKE IT INTO THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS
PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA BY MID AFTERNOON.
WOULD EXPECT TO UPDATE ZONES AGAIN AROUND NOON TIME OR SOONER TO
CLEAR AREA OF THE WATCH. AT THAT TIME WILL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS
NECESSARY TO CLOUDS AND TEMPS.
7-RUA
.LCH...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY HIGH ISLAND TO ATCHAFALAYA RIVER...
...GMZ450-455-470-475.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 10 UNTIL 20Z...
...LAZ028-029-031>033-042>045-051>055.
.PREVIOUS NUMBERS...
AEX 62/43/67/44 9000
BPT 66/44/69/46 9000
LCH 67/46/69/46 9000
LFT 70/47/69/46 9000In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 29, 7:19 AM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
719 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0518 AM JASPER TX WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 JASPER LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES BLOWN DOWN AT HOPKINS
DRIVE
0533 AM BROOKELAND TX WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 JASPER LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES BLOWN DOWN ALONG
HIGHWAY 96 AT BROOKELAND
0545 AM EVADALE TX WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 JASPER LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES BLOWN DOWN AT JONES
ROAD IN EVADALE
0603 AM BURKEVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 NEWTON TREES BLOWN DOWN ACROSS
HIGHWAYS 87 AND 692 AT
BURKEVILLESpecial weather statement, Jan 29, 7:30 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 291500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 730 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 9 CONTINUES UNTIL 900 AM THIS MORNING FOR CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 9 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS... HARDIN...JASPER... JEFFERSON...NEWTON...ORANGE...TYLER A LINE OF SHOWERS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM FLATWOODS IN NORTHWEST RAPIDES PARISH TO DEQUINCY IN NORTHERN CALCASIEU PARISH TO HACKBERRY IN CAMERON PARISH. THE LINE EXTENDED OFFSHORE FOR 60 NAUTICAL MILES. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST 40 MPH...WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE RACING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH OR MORE. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS IN THE LINE WILL PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WHICH WILL BLOW OVER TREES AND DAMAGE POWER LINES. THEREG IS A DANGER TO MOTORISTS FROM TREES FALLING ACROSS ROADWAYS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND THOSE COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH. SPARKS
Local storm report, Jan 29, 8:13 AM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
813 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 AM GRANT LA WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 ALLEN TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
LOCAL TELEVISION STATION.
0730 AM BOYCE LA WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 RAPIDES SEVERAL TREES DOWN
INCLUDING ONE ACROSS A
TRAILER REPORTED BY FIRE
CHIEF.Special weather statement, Jan 29, 9:30 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
GMZ455-475-LAZ028-029-031>033-042>045-051>055-292000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 930 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 10 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR RAPIDES...ALLEN...JEFF DAVIS AND CAMERON PARISHES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 10 CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES UNTIL 2 PM...AVOYELLES...EVANGELINE...SAINT LANDRY... ACADIA...LAFAYETTE...UPPER SAINT MARTIN...VERMILION...IBERIA... SAINT MARY AND LOWER SAINT MARTIN... AT 920 AM...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF AVOYELLES PARISH TO THE COAST NEAR PECAN ISLAND IN VERMILION PARISH AND INTO THE GULF BEYOND 60 MILES SOUTH OF WHITE LAKE. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THIS LINE. THESE WINDS CAN KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. THERE IS A DANGER TO MOTORISTS FROM TREES FALLING ACROSS ROADWAYS. BEHIND THIS LINE...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR RAPIDES...ALLEN...JEFF DAVIS AND CAMERON PARISHES. RUA
Local storm report, Jan 29, 10:15 AM CST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
1015 AM CST MON JAN 29 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0944 AM LAFAYETTE LA WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 LAFAYETTE LAFAYETTE 911 REPORTS
TRAILER DAMAGED AT 5411 W.
CONGRESS STREET.
0945 AM SCOTT LA WIND DAMAGE
01/29/01 LAFAYETTE SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
WINDOW BLOWN OUT AT SCOTT
MIDDLE SCHOOL.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
- Avalanche in Washington, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 29, 2001
- Ice Storm in Iowa, January 29, 2001
- Blizzard in South Dakota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 29, 2001
- Winter Storm and High Wind in Nebraska, January 29 to 30, 2001
More
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5228442.