Thunderstorm Wind, Avoyelles
- When
- May 26, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Avoyelles County, Goudeau
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.883, -92.000
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 26, 2001
Trees were blown down along Highway 361.
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
- $10,000
- 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.
Trees were blown down along Highway 361.
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 May 26, 12:52 PM CST, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:52 PM CST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 152 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 .TONITE... FOR THIS EVENING THE PRE-TSTM ENVIRONMENT LOOKS SOMEWHAT UNFRIENDLY. BELIEVE THAT MID LVL WESTERLIES WILL ADVECT SOME SHWRS/TSTMS INTO FCST AREA...WHERE THEY WILL SUBSEQUENTLY FALL APART. FOR THE OVERNITE HOURS...THE TYPICAL RADIATION INVRN RETURNS. THE MESOETA MODEL DEPICTS A DRY-OUT AT GRAD LVL (900 MB)...WHICH MAY INITIATE VAPOR DRIVEN PLUMES OFF THE SFC. XPC MORNING LOW CLOUDS...PATCHY FOG PSBL. FTHR...A RATHER STEEP BACLIN ZONE SETS UP ACRS THE CSTL MARSHES (MID 60S INLAND TO NR 70 AT THE COAST). .SUN AND SUN NITE... XPC SCT AFTN TSTMS OVR E-CNTRL LOUISIANA...ISOLD ELSW. LANDWARD OF THE SEA BREEZE...THE AFTN BLYR WILL DEEPEN TO 4000 FT...CAPPED BY A WEAK INVRN. AFTN MAXIMUMS WILL BE NEAR NORMAL. SUN NITE LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT OF SAT NITE. .MON...CORRECTION INCRG GULF BREEZES SHUD PUSH THE SEA BREEZE FTHR INLAND...OTRW XPC LITTLE CHANGE FROM SUNDAY. .LCH...NONE. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 63/85/69/88/74 33000 BPT 68/87/73/87/76 21000 LCH 68/87/72/86/76 21000 LFT 66/87/72/87/76 22000 $$y TRARES
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
430 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
d
345 PM VIDOR TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 ORANGE PUBLIC REPORTED
GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL.Local storm report, May 26, 3:50 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
450 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
340 PM LUMBERTON TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 HARDIN REPORTED BY SHERIFF
OFFICE.
425 PM 5 S OF OBERLIN LA 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 G ALLEN BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF
OFFICE.
24Local storm report, May 26, 4:03 PM CST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
500 CDT SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
420 PM 5 N OF KINDER LA WIND DAMAGE
05/26/01 ALLEN NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN.
445 PM ORANGE TX WIND DAMAGE
05/26/01 ORANGE NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN.
24Local storm report, May 26, 4:39 PM CST, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
540 CDT SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM BAYOU CHICOT LA 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01 EVANGELINE 911 DIRECTOR REPORTED
GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL
SIZE HAIL.
24Local storm report, May 26, 5:00 PM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
600 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
400 PM BEAUMONT TX WIND DAMAGE
05/26/01 JEFFERSON NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN REPORTED BY
FIRE DEPARTMENoT.
24The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, May 26, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 26, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, May 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 26, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Maryland, May 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 26, 2001
- Hail in Virginia, May 26, 2001
- Heavy Rain in New Jersey, May 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, May 26, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, May 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: 5244655.