Thunderstorm Wind, Vermilion
- When
- March 14, 8:04 PM CST
- Where
- Vermilion County, Forked Is
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.833, -92.300
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 14, 2001
Several trees were blown down.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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- 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.
Several trees were blown down.
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 14, 5:50 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 5:50 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 550 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 WILL SHORTLY BE UPDATING ZONES FOR TORNADO WATCH 64...REPLACING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 63. RATHER BUSY THIS AFTERNOON. LCH 88D SHOWING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TRACKING NORTHEAST. A FEW CELLS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS. SPC SUGGESTING WATCH MAY BE UPCOMING AS UPPER TROUGH ADVANCES INTO REGION. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE IN THIS EVENINGS FORECAST AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES INTO EAST TEXAS WITH STRONG DIVERGENCE INDICATED BY MODELS. 0-3 KM HELICITY VALUES EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH WITH MESO ETA SHOWING 1371 M2/S2 AT LCH AT 00Z. THIS A RESULT OF EASTERLY SURFACE WINDS...VEERING TO THE SOUTH AT 8H WHILE INCREASING TO 50 TO 60 KT...BECOMING NEAR WEST AT 7H. LIMITING FACTOR TO SEVERE CONTINUES TO BE THE ABSENCE OF SURFACE BASED MOISTURE...WITH DEW POINTS GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 50S ACROSS THE REGION. BELIEVE HOWEVER...EVEN WITHOUT THIS IN PLACE... DYNAMICS WILL STILL BE SUFFICIENT TO SEE A FEW STORMS REACH SEVERE LIMITS. MODELS GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT IN TRACKING STRENGTHENING SURFACE LOW NOW OVER SOUTH TEXAS NORTHEAST TO SOUTH CENTRAL GULF COAST THIS EVENING. ANY NORTHWARD DEVIATION AND RESULTING INCREASED SURFACE MOISTURE FROM FORECAST TRACK HOWEVER...COULD BE SUFFICIENT TO BRING A SUBSTANTIAL OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. NOW AWAY FROM THE DOOM AND GLOOM. HIGH PRESSURE WILL FOLLOW THIS SYSTEM INTO THE REGION...BRINGING SEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES THURSDAY...COOLING THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AS THE HIGH PLOWS FURTHER INTO THE REGION. RAIN CHANCES RETURN FOR THE WEEKEND AS A CLOSED LOW DEVELOPS OVER THE NW CONUS AND DROPS SOUTHEAST. .LCH...TORNADO WATCH...TXZ182-215-216...LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055 .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 48/68/43/61/41 +0000 BPT 53/74/44/61/45 +0000 LCH 52/75/43/63/43 +0000 LFT 55/74/44/62/45 +0000 MARCOTTE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 14, 6:40 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-150200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 640 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 ...A TORNADO WATCH FOR NEWTON...ORANGE...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST INTO SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AS THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AND THE INSTABILITY HAS ALL MOVED EAST OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS SYSTEM.
Local storm report, Mar 14, 6:43 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
643 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM SABINE PASS TX 72 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
03/14/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY SAWRS WEATHER
OBSERVER.The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:01 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 14, 2001
- Drought in Washington, March 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 14, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in Colorado, March 14, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, March 14 to 15, 2001
- Flooding in Nebraska, March 14 to 16, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in New Jersey, March 14, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, March 14, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5256587.