Thunderstorm Wind, Orange
- When
- September 21, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Orange County, Rose City
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.100, -94.050
Damaging Wind in Texas, September 21, 2001
Trees downed on power lines.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- 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 downed on power lines.
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 21, 2:51 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 2:51 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 240 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2001 STALLED FNT IS DRAPED FM NRN OK AND EXTENDS ACRS CNTRL MO AND INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION THIS AFTN. SOUTH OF THE FRONT ELONGATED SFC HIGH EXTENDS FM THE APPALACHIANS DOWN INTO NE LA. WHILE CLOSER TO HOME A TROF EXTENDS FM CNTRL TX...NE TO LFK... THEN KICKS ON TO THE EAST. DEW POINTS SOUTH OF THIS LN IN THE LWR 70S WHILE NORTH OF THIS LN THE THEY REMAIN IN THE UPR 60S. 88-D RADAR AT LCH BECMG MORE ACTIVE THIS AFTN W/ SHWRS/TSTMS STARTING TO MOV SOUTH AND INTO VERNON PARISH. ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND W/ MID LVL SHRTWV FM THE WEST APPROACHING THE AREA THIS WILL ENHANCE LIFT THRU THE EVE HRS. ATTM BELIEVE THAT A FEW STORMS WILL BECOM SEVERE THRU THE EVE HRS. MOST OF THE PRECIP WILL END BEFORE MIDNIGHT A FEW SHWRS EXPECTED TO LINGER THRU THE OVRNGHT HRS. THE NW GULF WILL RMN IN THE TROPICAL AIR OVR THE WEEKEND WHEN COMBINED W/ INSOLATION DAYTIME HEATING AND MID LVL SUPPORT THIS WILL ENHANCE PRECIP THRU SUNDAY. PRECIP CHCS TO INCR ON SUNDAY AS THE FIRST TO THE SEASONS COLD FRNTS DIVES SOUTH OUT OF CANADA ON SATURDAY MRNG AND LOOKS TO APPROACH THE NW GULF SUNDAY EVE. FRNT LOOKS TO KICK THRU THE AREA DRG THE OVRNGHT HOURS FM SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING... W/ EXPECTED LOWS NEAR 60 ALONG THE COAST TO THE MID 50S TWRDS AEX. AS COLDER AIR FILTERS IN WINDS IN THE 15 T0 20 MPH AND GUSTY ON MONDAY. THE REST OF THE WEEK LOOKS TO SHAPE-UP NICELY THEREAFTER. .PRELIM NUMBERS... AEX 68/90/69/88/66/57/81 5536400 BPT 73/90/73/89/70/59/80 6536400 LCH 72/90/72/89/70/59/80 6536400 LFT 71/90/72/89/72/59/80 5636400 .LCH...NONE. K. KUYPER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 12:19 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-212100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 119 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2001 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON... LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES...ALONG WITH LOCALIZED RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST RISK FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WEST AND SOUTH OF A FORT POLK TO LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA LINE. A MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. INTERESTS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA TODAY. 22
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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, September 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, September 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Michigan, September 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 21, 2001
- Hail in Texas, September 21, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, September 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, September 21, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, September 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Connecticut, September 21, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, September 21, 2001
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, September 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5270323.