Tornado, Jasper
- When
- October 12, 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, 2 mi S of Evadale
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 30.317, -94.067
Tornado in Texas, October 12, 2001
The same storm system that produced a tornado in Jefferson and Hardin counties produced another tornado in southern Jasper County near Evadale. It was witnessed by several firefighters, and remained in open fields for less than a minute and caused no damage.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
The same storm system that produced a tornado in Jefferson and Hardin counties produced another tornado in southern Jasper County near Evadale. It was witnessed by several firefighters, and remained in open fields for less than a minute and caused no damage.
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 Oct 12, 12:46 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 12:46 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
146 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
...CORRECTION FOR AEX POP FROM 70 TO 40...
.TONIGHT...
GULF AIR ADVECTION STRENGTHENS. EXPECT INCREASING CLOUDINESS AS GULF
AIR OVERRIDES FILM OF DRIER AIR AT THE SURFACE. THE ATMOSPHERE IS
BEING PRE-CONDITIONED FOR UPCOMING HEAVY RAIN EVENT. INCOMING GULF
AIR SHOULD KEEP MINIMUMS ON THE WARM SIDE (ABOUT 10 TO 15 F DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL).
.SATURDAY...
A HEAVY RAIN EVENT SEEMS LIKELY. STRONG ADIABATIC LIFT WILL BE IN
PLACE. THE NGM TRAJECTORY MODEL COMPUTES A NET VERTICAL DISPLACEMENT
OF THE 700 MB SURFACE AT +80 MB WITHIN A 12 HOUR PERIOD). OTHER
FACTORS NOTED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA INCLUDE...700-300 MB THICKNESS
DIFLUENCE...700-300 MB QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC LIFT...AND 1000-500 MB MEAN
RH NEAR 90 PERCENT.
MARGINAL INSTABILITY SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR. THE 700-
300 MB LAPSE RATES ARE RUNNING NEAR 6.5 C DEG PER KM...WHICH IS
MARGINALLY UNSTABLE (FOR A CLOUDY AIR PARCEL UNDERGOING AVERAGE
ENTRAINMENT IN A MOIST ENVIRONMENT).
AFTER TALKING WITH THE SURROUNDING OFFICES...I HAVE DECIDED TO ISSUE
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...AND FOR WEST CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. ALSO I WILL ISSUE A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
(HEAVY RAIN OUTLOOK) TO COVER THE REMAINDER (EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL LOUISIANA).
SPECIAL THANKS TO HOUSTON, NEW ORLEANS, SHREVEPORT OFFICES AND TO
THE HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER.
.LCH...FFA (FLOOD WATCH) TXZ180>182-201-215-216
... LAZ027-030-031-041-042-051
.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AEX 70/78/55/76/49/73/50 4830000
BPT 73/80/56/77/55/75/58 4800000
LCH 72/80/56/77/53/75/57 4800000
LFT 70/83/58/76/52/73/54 4830000
TRARESIn the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 12, 2:46 PM CST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
346 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM 5 E SOUR LAKE TX TORNADO
10/12/01 HARDIN A TORNADO WAS SEEN BY
SEVERAL PEOPLE NEAR HWY
105...NO DAMAGED SINCE IT
WAS OVER UNPOPULATED ZONE.
0304 PM 2 W BEVIL OAKS TX TORNADO
10/12/01 JEFFERSON TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR
HWY 105. SEVERAL REPORTS
FROM MOTORISTS.
FNLocal storm report, Oct 12, 2:54 PM CST, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES, LA
354 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM LUMBERTON TX TORNADO
10/12/01 HARDIN TREES KNOCKED DOWN...NO
INJURIES REPORTED.
FNSpecial weather statement, Oct 12, 2:54 PM CST, 11 minutes before
LAZ028-029-032-033-043>045-052>055-130900- HEAVY RAIN OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 354 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2001 ...HEAVY RAINS FOR SATURDAY... AN APPROACHING TEXAS COLD FRONT WILL LIFT A DEEP GULF AIR MASS... THUS GENERATING TROPICAL DOWNPOURS. ALSO SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. AVERAGE RAINFALL TOTALS WILL RANGE BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS NEAR THREE INCHES. THE RAINS SHOULD BE TAPERING OFF BY LATE AFTERNOON. TRARES
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:04 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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More
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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: 5271279.