Hail, St. Martin
- When
- March 24, 11:05 PM CST
- Where
- St. Martin County, Catahoula
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.200, -91.733
Hail in Louisiana, March 24, 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 24, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 8:30 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 830 PM CST SAT MAR 24 2001 STORMS MOVG ACRS THE AREA TOWARDS THE EAST WHILE A FEW ISOLATED CELLS ARE MOVG MORE SE...WILL CONT TO MONITOR. ATT DO NOT SEE ANY WIDESPREAD SVR STORMS DVLPG...ALTHOUGH IT MAYBE PSBLY TO SEE ONE OR TWO REACH SVR LIMITS. COLD FRNT THRU POE AND AEX AND IS EXPECTED TO TRUCK THRU LCH/BPT BEFORE 06Z. THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY CUT OUT LOW LVL INSTABILITY. SUNNY SKIES AND COOLER TEMPS ON TAP FOR TMRW AFTN. WILL MAKE SOME AMD TO ZONES. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 47/61/36/62/40 50002 BPT 50/63/42/65/45 40001 LCH 51/63/40/65/42 50001 LFT 52/63/40/6@5/42 50001 K. KUYPER
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 24, 2001
- Blizzard and Extreme Cold in Alaska, March 24 to 27, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, March 24 to 26, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, March 24 to 25, 2001
- Flood in Puerto Rico, March 24, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 24 to 25, 2001
- Flood in Hawaii, March 24 to 25, 2001
- Flood in Hawaii, March 24 to 25, 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5256594.