Thunderstorm Wind, St. Landry
- When
- July 3, 7:00 AM CST
- Where
- St. Landry County, Eunice
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.483, -92.417
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 3, 2005
Trees were blown down.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $2,000
- 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 were blown down.
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 Jul 3, 4:50 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 4:50 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 550 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 .UPDATE... UPPER VORT MAX HAS CAUGHT UP WITH STATIONARY MCS OVER VERNON PARISH AND IS ON THE MOVE AS A BOW ECHO. UPDATED GRIDS AND ZONES TO INTENSIFY THE SEVERE WORDING WITH DAMAGING WINDS...BUMPED UP POPS TO 70 PERCENT EARLIER...AND OTHER PRECIP/POPS REALIGNMENTS. DML && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 355 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005) DISCUSSION... CLUSTERS OF TSRA CONTINUES ACROSS SE TX...JUST WEST OF BPT OT JAS...IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MID/UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE/VORT MAX. ADDITIONAL TSRA HAS DEVELOPED FROM TOLEDO BEND EAST TO S OF AEX. THIS WILL BE THE TREND FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...WITH THE ENTIRE SYSTEM SAGGING SE TO GIVE THE I-10 CORRIDOR ENHANCED TSRA DEVELOPMENT BY THE LATE MORNING/AFTERNOON HOURS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE TSRA...URBAN FLOODING WILL BE A CONCERN WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. ALSO...ISOLATED SVR IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR AS WELL. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH DURING THE LATE EVENING HOURS...WITH ONLY ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. 4TH OF JULY...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE THE DOMINATE FEATURE ACROSS SE TX AND C LA...THUS MINIMAL POPS AND HOT CONDITIONS. ACROSS S CENTRAL LA...HOWEVER...THE MID/UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL BE IN THE PROCESS OF LIFTING DURING THE AFTERNOON...STAYING AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO ENHANCE SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT. TUE AND WED FORECAST DEPENDS ON THE FUTURE TRACK OF THE TROPICAL DISTURBANCE IN THE NW CARIBBEAN THIS MORNING. FOR NOW...TREATED IT AS AN OPEN WAVE TO SPREAD COPIOUS TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM E TO W...GREATLY ENHANCING POPS BOTH DAYS. BY THU AND THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK...EXPECT CLIMO POPS...THAT IS...30% DURING THE AFTERNOON...20% DURING THE EVENING AND EARLY MORNING ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES AND PARISHES. AVIATION... VCTS TO PREDOMINATE TSRA AT AEX FOR MOST OF THE MORNING... IMPROVING BY AFTERNOON. AS THE VORT MAX SLOWLY MOVES SE...TSRA WILL INCREASE ALONG THE I-10 CORRIDOR FROM BPT...LCH...LFT BY LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 5:00 AM CST, 2 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 6 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2005 GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216- 051100- ACADIA-ALLEN-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-CALCASIEU-CAMERON-EVANGELINE- HARDIN-IBERIA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-LAFAYETTE- LOWER ST. MARTIN-NEWTON-ORANGE-RAPIDES-ST. LANDRY-ST. MARY-TYLER- UPPER ST. MARTIN-VERMILION-VERNON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WOODVILLE...PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE... NEWTON...KOUNTZE...JASPER...BEAUMONT...OBERLIN...ABBEVILLE... VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY...MARKSVILLE... LEESVILLE...LAKE CHARLES...LAFAYETTE...JENNINGS...DERIDDER... CROWLEY...CAMERON AND ALEXANDRIA .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE STARTING ON WEDNESDAY. SEE LATEST ADVISORY ON TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS, HAM RADIO OPERATORS, AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUIRED FOR TODAY.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:59 UTC.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, July 3 to 4, 2005
- Tornado and Flood in Kansas, July 3 to 4, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 3, 2005
- Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, July 3 to 5, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, July 3, 2005
- Flash Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 3, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 3, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 3 to 4, 2005
- Hail in Iowa, July 3, 2005
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 3, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 3, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 3, 2005
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, July 2005
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: 5463397.