Flash Flood, Orange
- When
- November 27, 1:00 PM CST to 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Orange County, Vidor
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.121, -93.894 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, November 27, 2001
Significant street flooding in Vidor occurred along the Interstate 10 underpass on Highway 105, as well as six other area roadways, after 6 to 8 inches of rain.
Where it happened
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- 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.
Significant street flooding in Vidor occurred along the Interstate 10 underpass on Highway 105, as well as six other area roadways, after 6 to 8 inches of rain.
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 Nov 27, 3:38 AM CST, 9 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 27, 3:38 AM CST, 9 hours 22 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 338 AM CST TUE NOV 27 2001 AT MID TO UPPER LEVELS...FLOW WILL CONTINUE SOUTHWESTERLY AHEAD OF MAJOR TROUGH AXIS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO EASTERN TEXAS THURSDAY MORNING. TROUGH AXIS WILL TRAVERSE THE AREA DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. BEHIND THE TROUGH A MORE STABLE WESTERLY FLOW WILL BE OVER THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT. AHEAD OF THE TROUGH MINOR DISTURBANCES WILL BE PROVIDING WEAK TO MODERATE INSTABILITY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE WITH THE APPROACH OF THE TROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING AND DIMINISH WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE TROUGH. AT THE SURFACE...FRONT MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS PROGGED TO REACH ABOUT ALEXANDRIA TO LAKE CHARLES BY SUNSET TODAY THEN DRIFT VERY SLOWLY EASTWARD AWAITING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER NEAR THE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA COAST WEDNESDAY MORNING. FRONTAL SYSTEM SHOULD SHIFT EAST TO NEAR LAFAYETTE WEDNESDAY. BY THURSDAY MORNING...FRONT SHOULD BE OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA. DRY AIR WILL MOVE IN BEHIND THE FRONT THURSDAY. THURSDAY NIGHT WILL CONTINUE DRY AND COLDER. CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE HIGH UNTIL FRONTAL TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THERE WILL BE A POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS UNTIL UPPER TROUGH SHIFTS EAST OF THE AREA. WILL ISSUE FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. MOVEMENT OF FRONTAL TROUGH ACROSS THE AREA WILL BE VERY SLOW AND STORM STEERING WINDS WILL PARALLEL FRONT ALLOWING STORMS TO REPEAT OVER THE SAME AREAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AEX 65/57/67/50/55/33 +9+820 BPT 68/63/67/53/57/35 +9+800 LCH 73/64/69/57/58/36 +9+800 LFT 75/66/74/60/60/37 99+830 .LCH...FLOOD WATCH NORTHWESTERN TWO THIRDS FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. .FFA..LAZ027>033-041-042-051-TXZ180>182-201-215-216.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Dense Fog in South Carolina, November 27, 2001
- Winter Storm in Missouri, November 27 to 28, 2001
- High Wind in California, November 27, 2001
- Ice Storm in Texas, November 27 to 29, 2001
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, November 27 to 28, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, November 27, 2001
- Winter Storm in Oregon, November 27 to 28, 2001
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Texas, November 27 to 28, 2001
- Winter Storm in Texas, November 27 to 28, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in California, November 27, 2001
- Dense Fog in California, November 27, 2001
- Dense Fog in California, November 27 to 28, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 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: 5272150.