Thunderstorm Wind, Orange
- When
- August 6, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Orange County, Vidor
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.117, -94.017
Damaging Wind in Texas, August 6, 2001
Several trees were blown down.
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
- $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 Aug 6, 12:07 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 12:07 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 107 PM CDT MON AUG 6 2001 .TONITE... THE REMAINS OF BARRY WILL MOVE THRU E-CNTRL MISSISSIPPI...WITH AN ATTACHED TROF TRAILING SWWD TO ACRS SERN TEXAS. BARRY IS FCST TO ENTER NWRN MISSISSIPPI DURG THE OVERNITE HOURS. SOUTHWARD OF THE ATTACHED TROF...THE GULF BREEZE ATTEMPTS A RETURN. EXPECT NEAR NORMAL OVERNITE MINIMUMS. SOME CIRRUS CLOUDS WILL MOVE IN FROM THE GULF. ANY CNVTV ACTIVITY SHUD END IN THE EVENING HOURS. .TUE... THE REMAINS OF BARRY SETTLE ACRS NWRN MISSISSIPPI...THE ASSOCD TRAILING TROF EXTENDS SWWD INTO ERN TEXAS...JUST NWWD OF THE LAKES REGION. GULF BREEZES RETURN SWD OF THIS TROF. EXPECT NEAR NORMAL AFTN MAXIMUMS WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .TUE NITE THRU WED NITE... REMAINS OF BARRY DRIFT INTO NERN ARKANSAS. EXPECT AFTN MAXIMUMS AND OVERNITE MINIMUM TO BE NEAR NORMAL. GULF BREEZES IN PLACE WITH SCATTERED AFTN SHWRS AND TSTMS. .LCH...NONE .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 73/90/74/91/74 24030 BPT 75/90/75/92/76 24020 LCH 74/89/75/90/76 24030 LFT 73/88/74/90/75 24030 TRARES
The 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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, August 6 to 10, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, August 6 to 9, 2001
- Heat in Michigan, August 6 to 9, 2001
- Heat in Wisconsin, August 6 to 9, 2001
- Heat in Maryland, August 6 to 10, 2001
- Heat in New Jersey, August 6 to 10, 2001
- Heat in Maryland, August 6 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Texas, August 6, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 6 to 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 6, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 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: 5264092.