Thunderstorm Wind, Lafayette
- When
- June 28, 2:40 PM CST
- Where
- Lafayette County, Lafayette
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 30.217, -92.017
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 28, 2001
Winds of almost 60 mph caused trees to be blown down in Lafayette.
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.
Winds of almost 60 mph caused trees to be blown down in Lafayette.
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 Jun 28, 1:23 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:23 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 223 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2001 EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP...PRIMARILY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10. CONVECTION INITIATING IN VERY MOIST/UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. SURFACE BASED CAPES RUNNING 2500 TO 3500 J/KG IN RAIN-FREE AREAS. UPPER LOW LINGERING OVER MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL KEEP REGION IN VERY UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN. SYSTEM CURRENTLY SPINNING OVER SOUTH MISSOURI PROGGED TO DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTH...EVENTUALLY FILLING LATE IN THE WEEKEND LEAVING OPEN WAVE ACROSS CENTRAL CONUS. IN THE SHORT-TERM...EXPECTING STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING AS AREA REMAINS IN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WITH STEEP LAPSE RATES. DAMAGING HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT... BUT COULD NOT RULE OUT DOWNBURST WINDS. FOR TONIGHT...MODELS HINTING AT MCS DEVELOPMENT OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS/SOUTH OKLAHOMA...AS 30 TO 35 KT LLJ DEVELOPS. DIFLUENT THICKNESS PATTERN EXTENDING SOUTHEAST FROM THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD SLIDE CONVECTION INTO THE REGION LATE TONIGHT. WILL THEREFORE ADD POPS TO COVER THIS POSSIBILITY. OTHERWISE WILL CONTINUE...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...IN THE ZONE PACKAGE. FOR FRIDAY...WARMING TEMPERATURES ALOFT SHOULD MINIMIZE HAIL THREAT BUT EXPECTING SIMILAR COVERAGE AS TODAY. IN THE EXTENDED...TROF CONTINUES TO HOLD OVER REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ONGOING. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BPT 72/90/72/88/73 35363 LCH 72/88/72/88/73 35363 LFT 71/87/70/88/72 35363 AEX 69/85/69/85/70 35363 MARCOTTE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 9:22 AM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 290100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1022 AM CDT THU JUN 28 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... A LINGERING UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE...AS THE REGION REMAINS UNDER A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION SZERVICE PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:38 UTC.
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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 28 to 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 28, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 28, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, June 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: 5256609.