Flash Flood in Texas, June 8, 2001

Name: Flash Flood in Texas, June 8, 2001
Start: 2001-06-08T06:10
End: 2001-06-08T07:00
Location: Texas

June 8, 2001 · NWS LCH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

With grounds still saturated from the past several days of rains, an additional three inches of rain resulted in street flooding, as well as several homes having water approach them in Vidor.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
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.

With grounds still saturated from the past several days of rains, an additional three inches of rain resulted in street flooding, as well as several homes having water approach them in Vidor.

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 Jun 8, 1:45 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:45 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
245 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001

ALLISON CONTINUES TO DRIFT SW THIS MORNING...NOW NEARING CLL. IT
WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT SW THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE POSITION OF
ALLISON HAS KEPT THE SOMEWHAT DRYER AIR SLOT OVER SW LA REGION WITH
A FEW EXCEPTIONS...LIKE THE NEAR 3 INCHES IN AND NEAR LCH THIS
MORNING.

FOR TODAY...BANDS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP (ONE OVER E TX NOW AND
MORE TO DEVELOP FROM THE LFT REGION EASTWARD). AS ALLISON MOVES
FURTHER SW AND ELONGATES ALONG THE TX/LA COASTS BY SAT...I FEAR
WHATS HAPPENING FROM LFT ON EAST MAY EVENTUALLY MAKE ITS WAY OVER
THE LCH...AND THE REST OF SW LA...AND POSSIBLY THRU THE AEX REGION.
WILL KEEP THE FLOOD WATCH UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE IN MIND BUT FOR THE
STANDARD TWO PERIODS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THANKS COORDINATION HGX...
SIL...SHV. THE ETA IS MOST ROBUST IN SATURATION FROM THE SFC TO
300MB THRU SUN. THE AVN HAS SIMILAR RESULTS (A BIT LESS ROBUST)
THRU SUN...AND FINALLY BEGINS TO ADVECT DRIER AIR FROM 700MB UP
BEGINNING SUN AFTERNOON...HOPEFULLY A TREND IT DOES KEEP SUFFICIENT
MOISTURE FROM THE SFC TO 700MB THRU TUE AFTERNOON.

ONCE ALLISON FINALLY DISSIPATES...WE WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO A PATTERN
OF THE 80S AND EARLY 90S...SEEING AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOP EVERYDAY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS...UNLESS A MID/UPPER
HIGH PUTS A CAP SO STRONG A NUCLEAR BOMB WOULDNT PENETRATE IT. THE
MRF DOESNT SHOW THIS AS IT KEEPS A GENERAL WEAKNESS ALOFT THRU THE
MIDDLE OF JUNE.

8

.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AEX 82/70/84/70 8876
BPT 82/72/80/71 9998
LCH 82/72/80/72 9998
LFT 81/71/80/71 9998

.LCH...FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT...LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-
       TXZ180>182-201-215-216

The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Orange

When: June 8, 6:10 AM CST to 7:00 AM CST
Where: Orange County, Vidor
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 30.121, -93.894 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, June 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: 5254382.