Hail, St. Landry
- When
- March 1, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- St. Landry County, Lebeau
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.733, -91.967
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, 2:30 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST, 45 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001 RADAR SHOWING SCT CONVECTION DEVELOPING WITHIN THE LAST HOUR. VIS SAT LOOP SHOWS NOTHING BUT OVC OVER ENTIRE AREA...ADDED TEXTURE TO THE OVC INDICATING THE HIGHER TOPS OF TSRA NOTED OVER C TX THRU N LA. OUR OLD COLD FRONT STILL DANGLING OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...OFFSHORE SE TX PARALLELING THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY ACROSS THE COASTAL PARISHES TO BETWEEN NEW IBERIA AND PATTERSON LA. LARGE SCALE STORM SYSTEM OVER THE SW US BEGINNING TO MOVE EAST THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE FIRST MAJOR IMPULSE (VORT/OMEGA/MOISTURE = TSRA) ALREADY OVER C TX THRU N LA. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY TONIGHT THRU SAT MORNING...WITH A STEADY STREAM OF SUCCESSIVE IMPULSES EJECTING NE AS THE ENTIRE TROF AXIS MOVES EAST. MODELS AGREE IN THIS FEATURE RELATIVELY WELL...PLACING THE H5 TROF AXIS OVER C TX BY 12Z SAT....AND CONTINUING IT EAST WITH THE AVN BEING ROBUST ABOUT SIGNIFICANT WRAP AROUND MOISTURE SAT NIGHT TO EARLY SUN. WHAT SEEM TO BE THE PROBLEM IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SURFACE LOW OVER THE GULF. ALL OF THEM SHOW THE WEAK REFLECTION OUT THERE NOW S OF LCH AND E OF CRP. THE ETA SOLUTIONS DEVELOP IT FRI EVENING AND MOVE IT ASHORE SE LA BY EARLY SAT MORNING...CONTINUING IT NE THEREAFTER. THE AVN DEVELOPS IT DURING FRIDAY...HANGS IT BACK OFF THE LA COAST AS ANOTHER LOW DEVELOPS SW...AND DUMBBELLS/MERGES BOTH LOWS AND EXPLOSIVELY DEVELOPS AT IT MOVE NE SOME 12 HOURS LATER SAT EVENING ...WHICH SEEMS A BIT ODD TO ME. THIS REALLY PLAYS HAVOC ON TEMPS SAT LOOKING AT 10-15 DEGREE DIFFERENCES IN LOW TEMPS. I FEEL THE ETA MAY BE A BIT FAST...AND LEAN A BIT CLOSER TO THE NGM...WHICH PLACES IT MOVING ASHORE LATE SAT MORNING. THIS IS SPLITTING HAIRS WITH THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM. BECAUSE THE WARM SECTOR WILL BE MOST LIKELY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LA..SPC HAS PLACED AREA JUST SE OF LFT IN SLIGHT RISK FOR FRI...SO WILL WORD ACCORDINGLY IN ZONES. NOW FOR TOTAL PRECIP OUT OF THIS SYSTEM. AVN/NGM SOLUTION ARE GIVING THE MOST PRECIP WITH A SOLID .25 TO AS MUCH AS AN INCH PER 6 OURS OVER THE E TX/ N AND SE LA REGION. MOST OF THEM AGREE IN 2-3 INCHES FROM TONIGHT THRU FRI EVENING...WHICH IS GETTING MARGINAL TO FLOOD WATCH POTENTIAL...ESPECIALLY INLAND SE TX AND C LA ZONES...AS THEIR FFG VALUES ARE LOWER THAN S ZONES. WILL GO AHEAD AND ISSUE FLOOD WATCH (FOR RAINFALL) N ZONES...WHICH WILL MATCH WELL WITH SHV CWA. COORDINATED WITH HOU (WHICH WILL HOLD OFF BECAUSE OF VERY DRY CONDITIONS THUS FAR) AND NEW (WHICH WILL HOLD OFF BECAUSE THE HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR LATER THAN THE WINDOW OF ISSUANCE). HOWEVER...THIS RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE A WORLD OF HURT FOR AREA RIVERS IN NE TX..N LA THRU TOLEDO BEND AND THE LOWER SABINE RIVER. THE RIVER FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NECHES AND SABINE RIVERS HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED EARLIER. SEE NEWESFLCH (RIVER FLOOD WATCH). THE EXTENDED...NW FLOW BEHIND MAIN TROF WILL ALLOW HIGH PRESSURE TO DIVE S LATE SUN AND PROVIDE RIDGING AND COOLER TEMPS THRU LATE WED... WHEN THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL BEGINNING TO AFFECT THE AREA DURING THE DAY THU. 8 .LCH...FLOOD WATCDH (FOR RAINFALL)LAZ027>033-TXZ180>182-201- .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS AEX 53/62/52/62/45 +++94 BPT 55/65/53/63/48 9++73 LCH 58/68/55/65/49 9++84 LFT 60/70/60/68/50 89+95
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 45 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/
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 3:10 PM CST, 5 minutes before
LAZ027-030-041-051-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-020200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 310 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 COUNTY'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED. IN VERNON PARISH...RESIDENTS IMMEDIATELY BELOW TOLEDO BEND DAM NEED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION. FLASH FLOODING COULD OCCUR ALONG LOW-LYING AREAS ALONG THE RIVER...INCLUDING RURAL DIRT ROADS OFF OF HIGHWAY 111 HEADING TOWARDS THE SABINE RIVER. RESIDENTS NEAR THE SABINE...NECHES AND CALCASIEU RIVERS SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE ACTION IF7 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), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:17 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: 5237348.