Flood, St. Martin
- When
- May 31, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- St. Martin County, St Martinville
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.129, -91.608 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
Localized street flooding occurred in southern sections of town.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $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.
Localized street flooding occurred in southern sections of town.
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 31, 1:30 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 1:30 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 230 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA THIS MORNING HAS SLOWED AND IS CURRENTLY LOCATED ACROSS CALCASIEU...JEFF DAVIS... ACADIA...AND LAFAYETTE PARISH. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THIS BOUNDARY WERE IN THE 70S. ANOTHER OUTFLOW BOUNDARY STRETCHES FROM LAKE CHARLES TO SABINE PASS TEXAS. WHERE THE TWO BOUNDARIES INTERSECT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED. ON THE SYNOPTIC SCALE...AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WAS SITUATED ACROSS EASTERN MISSOURI. A COLD FRONT STRETCHED SOUTHWESTWARD FROM THE LOW THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS FRONT WILL SLOWLY GLIDE SOUTHWARD AND MOVE INTO THE FORECAST AREA FRIDAY MORNING. A 500 MB SHORTWAVE WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THE TROUGH WILL SLIDE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA FRIDAY. NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL RETURN AND THE FRONT SHOULD STALL ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH LOUISIANA. THIS BOUNDARY WILL ALLOW FOR AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER SYSTEM SHOULD MOVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IN THE MARINE...SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 63/85/64/88/71 52120 BPT 68/89/70/90/75E 53130 LCH 71/88/70/89/74 63130 LFT 70/88/68/90/73 63130 .LCH...NONE. 26-MAYEAUX
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
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 31, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 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: 5244658.