Thunderstorm Wind, Plaquemines
- When
- June 13, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Plaquemines County, Alliance
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 29.683, -89.983
Several power poles were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 13, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 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 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:00 AM CST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 400 AM CDT WED JUN 13 2003 CONTAMINATED SOUNDING FROM SLIDELL YESTERDAY EVENING. THIS MAY LEND A HIGHER POP FROM MODELS FOR TODAY AND HAVE BACKED OFF SLIGHTLY IN THIS AREA...THKS JAN. TRAIN OF MCS FEATURES MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST OVER THE ARKLATEX AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. INITIAL UPPER TROUGH WILL OPEN INTO WESTERLIES TODAY AND TOMORROW. NEXT TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO FORM AND KEEP AN UPPER LOW PARKED OVER NORTHERN TX BY SATURDAY. IN ITS BEGINNING STAGE...THE LOW IS PROMISING TO SEND A LARGE MCS SCREEMING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN TX INTO WESTERN LA. EXPECT THE SYSTEM TO BEGIN WEAKENING AS IT MOVES CLOSER TO THE BTR/NEW AREAS BUT NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP ALL CHANCES OF STRONG TO SEVERE OUT. WILL KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON THIS AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PRECIP CHANCES CONTINUE AS UPPER TROUGHING WILL PROVIDE A DIVERGENT UPP FLOW EAST OF THE THROUGH AXIS AND PERTUBATIONS IN THE MEAN FLOW. THIS OCCURS THROUGHOUT MID WEEK. MOST RAIN FOR NEW ORLEANS AND POINTS SOUTH SHOULD OCCUR MAINLY THIS MORNING. UPDATES LATER MAY SHOW A SLIGHTLY LOWER POP REGIME FOR THIS AREA. ONE LAST NOTE...NOT TOO CRAZY ABOUT THESE MCSS SPILLING INTO THE GULF WATERS THIS TIME OF YEAR...ESPECIALLY WHEN WATER TEMPS ARE AROUND 80. ACTUAL NUMBERS: MCB 086/071/087/071/090/074/086/073/089/073/089/073/089 7364545444543 BTR 086/070/088/071/090/072/087/074/088/074/088/074/090 6364544444544 MSY 087/075/089/075/089/073/087/076/088/074/088/075/090 6353444443444 GPT 086/074/088/073/087/075/087/074/088/074/087/075/088 6363444343444 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 17
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 9:30 PM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-131130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1030 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...REMAINDER OF TONIGHT A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS EXISTS ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA LATER TONIGHT AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA LATER TONIGHT. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH AND MODERATE TO BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR IN A FEW STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA AS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS UNLIKELY DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER. 25
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
- Flash Flood in New York, June 13 to 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 13, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 13, 2003
- Flooding in Ohio, June 13 to 14, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2003
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, June 2003
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: 5367155.