Flash Flood in Texas, September 2, 2001

Name: Flash Flood in Texas, September 2, 2001
Start: 2001-09-02T08:00
End: 2001-09-02T16:00
Location: Texas

September 2, 2001 · NWS LCH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

An additional two to three inches of rain resulted in extended flooding in the Orange and Mauriceville areas, where several homes had water enter them.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $75,000
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.

An additional two to three inches of rain resulted in extended flooding in the Orange and Mauriceville areas, where several homes had water enter them.

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 Sep 2, 2:18 AM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:18 AM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
318 AM CDT SUN SEP 2 2001

EARLY THIS MORNING...YET ANOTHER IMPULSE MOVING THROUGH BRINGING
A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF CONVECTION TO REGION. MUCH LIKE YESTERDAY
MORNING...MODELS PICKED UP WELL ON FEATURE. HAVE NOTED THIS MORNING
A LACK OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION ALONG THE LOW TO MID TEXAS
COAST THAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING THE LAST FEW MORNINGS. APPEARS LOW
LEVEL CONVERGENCE HAS SOMEWHAT WEAKENED IN THIS AREA...BUT
COASTAL TROF AND CONVERGENCE REMAINS PRONOUNCED THROUGH COASTAL
LOUISIANA...TO NEAR GALVESTON.

A WELCOME REPRIEVE FROM RAINS SATURDAY ALLOWING AT LEAST A
SMALL WINDOW FOR DRYING. MAIN CONSIDERATION TODAY WILL BE WHETHER TO
CONTINUE WATCH FLOOD WATCH.

00Z SOUNDING AT LCH CONTINUED TO INDICATE A VERY TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE
IN PLACE WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER AT A JUICY 2.21 INCHES. FORECAST
SOUNDINGS SUGGESTING PWS REMAINING ABOVE 2 INCHES TODAY AS SOUTH TO
SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS. MODEST LLJ REMAINS
IN PLACE BETWEEN NOSE OF SUBTROPICAL GULF HIGH AND LOW NOW OVER EAST
TEXAS...WITH THIS FEATURE PROGGED TO EJECT RAPIDLY INTO MID
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATE IN THE DAY. WITH THE ABOVE IN PLACE...
COMBINED WITH MID LEVEL VORTICITY LOBE ALONG AND EAST OF LINGERING
TROF AS WELL AS SOME DIVERGENT FLOW ALOFT...WILL MAINTAIN
RAINS IN THE LIKELY CATEGORY ALONG WITH OUR ONGOING FLOOD WATCH.

BEGIN TO SEE A GRADUAL DECREASE IN MOISTURE TONIGHT...WHILE WIND
FIELDS AND DYNAMICS DECREASE AS MID LEVEL LOW MOVES FURTHER EAST.
WILL DROP POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY AND HOLD THROUGH LABOR DAY.

FOR EXTENDED...MAINTAINING CHANCE OF RAINS THROUGH THURSDAY.

.LCH...FFA TODAY FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL
LOUISIANA.

.PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AEX 86/72/89/73 7353
BPT 85/74/87/75 7353
LCH 85/73/87/74 7353
LFT 85/73/88/74 7353

MARCOTTE

The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Orange

When: September 2, 8:00 AM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Orange County, Countywide
Property damage: $75,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
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, September 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: 5270331.