Flood, St. Landry
- When
- March 12, 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- St. Landry County, Eunice
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.599, -92.006 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Louisiana, March 12, 2001
Two inches of rain in less than two hours caused minor street flooding in Eunice. Several streets had to be temporarily closed.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $2,000
- 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.
Two inches of rain in less than two hours caused minor street flooding in Eunice. Several streets had to be temporarily closed.
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 12, 2:36 AM CST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 2:36 AM CST, 6 hours 24 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 236 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001 AREA ON THE FRINGE OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT UNTIL 12Z FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 12Z FOR EXTREME SOUTH-CENTRAL LOUISIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL LOUISIANA... MAINLY DUE TO SOME LOW LEVEL SPEED AND DIRECTIONAL CONVERGENCE AND A DIFFLUENT PATTERN ALOFT. HOWEVER...THE AREA I AM MOST CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE WATCH TO THE WEST. CURRENTLY THERE IS A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDS FROM DALLAS TO SAN ANTONIO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS BY 12Z. COULD ALSO SEE SOME THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OUT AHEAD OF THIS LINE SINCE THE AIRMASS IS ALREADY FAIRLY UNSTABLE WITH LI VALUES OF -4 TO -7 AND SBCAPE OF 1000 TO 1500 J/KG. THE AIRMASS WILL BECOME EVEN MORE UNSTABLE AS THE DAY WEARS ON AS STEEPER MID LEVEL LAPSE RATE AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA. WOULD EXPECT SEVERE WEATHER TO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE MID AFTERNOON HOURS. THE COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE 500 MB LOW THAT IS MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL PUSH THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING AND ESSENTIALLY PUTTING AND END TO THE PRECIPITATION. THE NEXT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS THE NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES THE AREA. WILL ONCE AGAIN GO WITH A BLEND OF AVN AND NGM MOS TEMPS. 10 .LCH...NONE. PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 75/51/72/47 8200 BPT 77/54/74/53 8200 LCH 76/54/74/52 8200 LFT 78/57/73/52 >8200
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 12, 2001
- High Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 12, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, March 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 12, 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: 5237477.