Hail, Evangeline
- When
- March 1, 2:27 PM CST
- Where
- Evangeline County, Pine Prairie
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.783, -92.417
Hail in Louisiana, March 1, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 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 Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 1, 10:20 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 10:20 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1020 AM CST THU MAR 1 2001 RADAR SCOPE CLEAN OTHER THAN THE PATCHY DRIZZLE WITH THE FOG AND LOW CLOUDS. DON'T HAVE TO GO FAR N AND W TO FIND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE PRECIP DEVELOPING ACROSS C TX THRU NE TX AND EXTREME NW LA. IR SAT IMAGERY SHOWS THE LOW OVER THE SW US BEGINNING TO EDGE EAST THIS MORNING...EJECTING AND DEVELOPING THE FIRST MAJOR IMPULSE TO MOVE THROUGH TX AND EVENTUALLY SE TX AND SW LA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AT THE SURFACE...A WEAK LOW IS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OFF THE TEXAS COAST...WHICH WILL KEEP NE WINDS AND TEMPS A BIT UNDER WHAT WAS FORECASTED. FOR THE ZONES...WILL LOWER HIGH TEMPS BY A CATEGORY OR TWO IN SOME CASES. THIS ALSO LEAD TO LOWERING TONIGHTS TEMPS OR WORKING TEMPS REMAINING SUCH AND SUCH. WILL LOWER POPS KEEPING HIGHEST NW AND LOWEST SE. WILL COORDINATING WITH ADJACENT OFFICES THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT THE ISSUANCE OF FLOOD WATCH FOR RAINFALL. THE RIVER FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NECHES AND SABINE RIVERS HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED. 8 .UPDATED NUMBERS AEX 56/54/66/56 6+++ BPT 59/56/70/59 67++ LCH 63/60/72/59 56++ LFT 6v6/62/75/64 466+ .LCH...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 1:30 PM CST, 57 minutes before
GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 020200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 130 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001 ...A LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED FOR NEWTON COUNTY... ...RIVER FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SABINE RIVER SOUTH OF TOLEDO BEND DAM... ...RIVER FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NECHES RIVER SOUTH OF STEINHAGEN LAKE... HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND LOUISIANA THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY. RAINFALL TOTALS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 2 INCHES WITH SOME LOCATIONS RECEIVING NEARLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN. SUCH RAINFALL TOTALS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING ALONG THE LOWER SABINE...THE LOWER NECHES...AND THE UPPER CALCASIEU RIVERS. IN FACT...A LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED FOR NEWTON COUNTY. EVACUATION OF PROPERTY HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR LOW LYING AREAS NEAR THE SABINE RIVER INCLUDING RIVER ROADS AND SABINE SANDS. PERSONS LIVING IN THE DEWEYVILLE AREA SHOULD MONITOR CONDITIONS CLOSELY AND PREPARE FOR EVACUATION. NEWTON COUNTYS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED. RESIDENTS NEAR THE SABINE...NECHES AND CALCASIEU RIVERS SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE ACTION IF FLOOD WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS FLOOD EVENT VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LCH/
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:25 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Ice Storm in Kansas, March 1, 2001
- Rip Current in California, March 1, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, March 1 to 3, 2001
- Heavy Rain in Georgia, March 1 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Louisiana, March 1 to 3, 2001
- Dense Fog in Arizona, March 1, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 1, 2001
- Cold in West Virginia, March 1 to 31, 2001
- Drought in North Carolina, March 1 to 31, 2001
- Drought in South Carolina, March 1 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 1, 2001
- Drought in Texas, March 1 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, March 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: 5237347.