Name: Damaging Wind in Texas, May 30, 2007
Start: 2007-05-30T15:25
End: 2007-05-30T15:25
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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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.

A thunderstorm reached severe limits in southeast Texas.

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 May 30, 2:31 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:31 PM CST, 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
331 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007

.DISCUSSION...
MCS OVER N TX TOOK MORE OF AND E TURN...NOW DIVING SE ACROSS E TX/N
LA AT 35 MPH...JUST ABOUT TO ENTER NORTHERN TYLER/JASPER/NEWTON
COUNTIES IN TX...AND VERNON PARISH IN LA. THIS MCS WILL CONTINUE
TO DIVE SE INTO THE NEAR 70 DEW POINT AIR...AND LIKELY MAKE IT TO
THE COAST AND THE REMAINDER OF THE COASTAL WATERS. TEMPS MAY BE A
BIT TRICKY TONIGHT...IN THE UPPER 60S AFTER THE MCS PASSES...BUT
WILL LIKELY RECOVER A BIT OVERNIGHT INTO THE LOWER 70S ACROSS SE
TX/SW LA.

POPS FOR TOMORROW WILL BE A BIT HIGHER OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL LA THU WITH THE GREATEST INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE THERE.

BY FRI...THE MID/UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS WILL BE EAST OF THE
AREA...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED. THIS WILL HOLD
TRUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND AS WELL...WITH TEMPS RISING
TO THE UPPER 80S/NEAR 90.

ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROF WILL SWING ACROSS THE AREA MON...THUS
INCREASING THE CHANCES OF SHRA/TSRA ONCE AGAIN. HOWEVER...THIS ONE
APPEARS TO BE ON THE MOVE...AND NOT STALL OVER THE REGION FOR
SEVERAL DAYS.

DML

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
KLCH  70  88  70  86 /  80  40  40  20
KBPT  72  89  71  86 /  80  40  40  20
KAEX  67  87  68  87 /  80  50  50  20
KLFT  69  86  69  86 /  50  50  50  20

&&

.LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LA...NONE.
TX...NONE.
GM...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 4:48 AM CST, 10 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
548 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007

GMZ450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-
201-215-216-311100-
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON, LA OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY,
LA OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM CAMERON, LA TO HIGH ISLAND, TX EXTENDING FROM 20 NM
TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA TO CAMERON, LA EXTENDING FROM
20 NM TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY, LA
EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-
ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-
LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-
LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-
548 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST
GULF OF MEXICO...CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS.
SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. HOWEVER, IN GENERAL,
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY. HOWEVER, NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 2:58 PM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
358 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0357 PM     TSTM WND GST     FORT POLK               31.05N 93.21W
05/30/2007  E0 MPH           VERNON             LA   PUBLIC

            ESTIMATED AT 65 MPH.

&&

FNAVEJAR

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:22 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Tyler

When: May 30, 3:25 PM CST
Where: Tyler County, 1.91 mi WNW of Hillister
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: Law Enforcement
Coordinates: 30.680, -94.410

A large tree was blown down.

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

More

Every storm in Texas in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, May 2007

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: 35496.