Flash Flood, Jefferson
- When
- October 25, 2:00 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Port Neches
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 29.854, -94.153 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, October 25, 2003
Homes and streets in Port Neches were flooded when around 5 to 6 inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- 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.
Homes and streets in Port Neches were flooded when around 5 to 6 inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours.
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 25, 1:56 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 1:56 PM CST, 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 250 PM CDT SAT 25 OCT 2003 .OVERVIEW... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. ONE STORM PULSED TO SEVERE LIMITS OVER ORANGE COUNTY WITH A VIL OF 55 AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED. OTHERWISE STORMS HAVE PULSED TO JUST BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA. SHORT WAVE EMBEDDED IN THE SUBTROPICAL WESTERLIES IS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG COLD FRONT REMAINS IN NORTHEAST TEXAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. .SHORT TERM... AIRMASS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA IS MOIST WITH PWAT OVER 1.3 INCHES AND SURFACE DEWPOINTS AROUND 70F. AIRMASS IS ALSO UNSTABLE WITH MSAS SHOWING LIS AROUND (-8) AND LAPS CAPES OVER 2500 J/KG. STILL COULD SEE A FEW PULSE STORMS WITH HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREATS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. HOWEVER...WATCH WILL BE ALLOWED AS STORMS WILL BE PULSE AND NOT WIDESPREAD IN NATURE. NEXT EVENT WILL BE WITH THE COLD FRONT. FRONT IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY SO WENT CLOSER TO THE SLOWER ETA GUIDANCE IN ITS TIMING. FRONT LOOKS TO ENTER THE FORECAST AREA AROUND MIDNIGHT THEN PROGRESS SLOWLY EASTWARD DURING THE OVERNIGHT AS WE FALL BACK TO STANDARD TIME. EXPECT FRONT IN THE KAEX/KLCH AREAS AROUND 09Z AND KLFT AT 12Z (6AM CST.) PLENTY OF MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AHEAD OF THE FRONT WITH PWAT IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES. VERY GOOD FRONTAL CONVERGENCE AND LIFT IS NOTED WITH THE FRONT. COUPLET BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN BRANCHES OF JET STREAM IS ALSO NOTED AT 25H TO ENHANCE UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE. THEREFORE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED ALONG THE FRONT. AIRMASS SHOULD NOT BE QUITE AS UNSTABLE TONIGHT WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND AREA BEING WORKED OVER BY CURRENT ACTIVITY. STILL COULD SEE SOME PULSE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME RAIN WILL LINGER BEHIND THE FRONT DURING THE MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. COLD AIR ADVECTION...BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS AND CLOUD COVER SHOULD KEEP TEMPS AT BAY WITH READINGS ONLY IN THE 60S AND CLOSE TO OVERNIGHT LOWS. STRONG WINDS WILL ALSO MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE COASTAL WATERS WITH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS LIKELY BY AFTERNOON. TEMPS WILL COOL INTO THE LOW TO MID 40S ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY MORNINGS. .EXTENDED... LARGE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE WESTERN US DURING THE WEEK. THIS WILL CAUSE SOUTHWEST FLOW TO DEVELOP OVER THE FORECAST AREA. TEMPS WILL MODERATE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN DUE TO POSITION OF SUBTROPICAL JET BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 63 67 45 68 / 80 60 10 00 KBPT 62 67 46 68 / 80 60 10 00 KAEX 59 64 42 65 / 80 60 10 00 KLFT 64 68 47 68 / 80 70 10 00 .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3PM ALL ZONES TX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3PM ALL ZONES. 07-RUA
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 25, 4:45 AM CST, 9 hours 15 minutes before
LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-252300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 545 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...CENTRAL... SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING THIS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND WILL SPREAD EASTWARD THROUGH THE DAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL SUBTROPICAL JET WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM SOUTH TEXAS AND A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER HAZARD WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS NEAR 1 INCH WILL BE ON TAP WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST SUNDAY BY EARLY AFTERNOON. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. FOR THE WORK WEEK...COLDEST TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON WITH DAYTIME HIGHS IN THE 70S AND OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 40S TO LOWER 50S. .INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS MAY BE REQUIRED OVERNIGHT. WILEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 25, 11:04 AM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1204 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1150 AM 5 NW PINE FOREST TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/25/03 ORANGE
MMThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Wildfire in California, October 25 to 31, 2003
- Wildfire in California, October 25 to 31, 2003
- Rip Current in Florida, October 25, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, October 25 to 26, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Texas, October 25, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, October 25, 2003
- Heavy Rain in Kentucky, October 25, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, October 25, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, October 25, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, October 25, 2003
- Hail in Texas, October 25, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, October 25, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, October 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: 5371183.