Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson
- When
- March 14, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Port Arthur
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 29.900, -93.933
Damaging Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
Trees and power lines were downed across the city during a severe thunderstorm.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- 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.
Trees and power lines were downed across the city during a severe thunderstorm.
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 14, 5:50 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 5:50 PM CST, 25 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 550 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 WILL SHORTLY BE UPDATING ZONES FOR TORNADO WATCH 64...REPLACING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 63. RATHER BUSY THIS AFTERNOON. LCH 88D SHOWING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NOW OVER THE COASTAL WATERS TRACKING NORTHEAST. A FEW CELLS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS. SPC SUGGESTING WATCH MAY BE UPCOMING AS UPPER TROUGH ADVANCES INTO REGION. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE IN THIS EVENINGS FORECAST AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES INTO EAST TEXAS WITH STRONG DIVERGENCE INDICATED BY MODELS. 0-3 KM HELICITY VALUES EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH WITH MESO ETA SHOWING 1371 M2/S2 AT LCH AT 00Z. THIS A RESULT OF EASTERLY SURFACE WINDS...VEERING TO THE SOUTH AT 8H WHILE INCREASING TO 50 TO 60 KT...BECOMING NEAR WEST AT 7H. LIMITING FACTOR TO SEVERE CONTINUES TO BE THE ABSENCE OF SURFACE BASED MOISTURE...WITH DEW POINTS GENERALLY IN THE LOW TO MID 50S ACROSS THE REGION. BELIEVE HOWEVER...EVEN WITHOUT THIS IN PLACE... DYNAMICS WILL STILL BE SUFFICIENT TO SEE A FEW STORMS REACH SEVERE LIMITS. MODELS GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT IN TRACKING STRENGTHENING SURFACE LOW NOW OVER SOUTH TEXAS NORTHEAST TO SOUTH CENTRAL GULF COAST THIS EVENING. ANY NORTHWARD DEVIATION AND RESULTING INCREASED SURFACE MOISTURE FROM FORECAST TRACK HOWEVER...COULD BE SUFFICIENT TO BRING A SUBSTANTIAL OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. NOW AWAY FROM THE DOOM AND GLOOM. HIGH PRESSURE WILL FOLLOW THIS SYSTEM INTO THE REGION...BRINGING SEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES THURSDAY...COOLING THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AS THE HIGH PLOWS FURTHER INTO THE REGION. RAIN CHANCES RETURN FOR THE WEEKEND AS A CLOSED LOW DEVELOPS OVER THE NW CONUS AND DROPS SOUTHEAST. .LCH...TORNADO WATCH...TXZ182-215-216...LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055 .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 48/68/43/61/41 +0000 BPT 53/74/44/61/45 +0000 LCH 52/75/43/63/43 +0000 LFT 55/74/44/62/45 +0000 MARCOTTE
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:15 UTC.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
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- Drought in Washington, March 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 14, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in Colorado, March 14, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, March 14 to 15, 2001
- Flooding in Nebraska, March 14 to 16, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, March 14, 2001
- High Wind in New Jersey, March 14, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, March 14, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5237478.