A strong cold front sweeps through Southeast Texas with strong to severe storms ahead of the boundary.
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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.
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
A strong cold front sweeps through Southeast Texas with strong to severe storms ahead of the boundary.
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 Feb 11, 7:04 AM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 704 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013 .DISCUSSION... BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS...TWEAKED POPS FOR TODAY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 530 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013/ AVIATION UPDATE...REGARDING 12Z TAF ISSUANCE. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING...THEN TRENDING TO STRATOFORM RAINS NORTH OF A COLD FRONT ADNVANCING DEEPER INTO THE GULF WATERS. MVFR CEILINGS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH TODAY...LOWERING INTO IFR OVERNIGHT. MARCOTTE PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 340 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013/ DISCUSSION... SINCE MIDNIGHT...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN/SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDER HAS BEEN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE REGION...IN RESPONSE TO STRONG LIFT ALONG A STALLED OUT COLD FRONT ACROSS LOUISIANA. AS A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES MOVES ACROSS THE AREA...WE WILL BE CARRYING HIGH POPS FOR THE NEXT 24-36 HOURS BEFORE THE FRONT FINALLY PUSHES ITS WAY EAST TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. AT THIS POINT...DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY TO BECOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE THE DOMINATING WEATHER FEATURE THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK...SO DRY WEATHER SHOULD BE ON TAP WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURE-WISE...SEASONABLE READINGS ARE IN STORE FOR THE HIGHS...WHILE LOWS WILL BE A LITTLE COOLER THAN NORMAL WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KLCH 62 52 65 49 61 / 100 50 80 20 10 KBPT 62 52 64 49 60 / 90 50 60 20 10 KAEX 59 49 60 45 60 / 100 70 80 20 10 KLFT 62 53 67 51 61 / 100 70 80 30 20 && .LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. TX...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 354 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013 GMZ430-432-435-450-452-455-470-472-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-052>055- 073-074-TXZ180-201-215-216-259>262-121200- SABINE LAKE-CALCASIEU LAKE-VERMILION BAY- 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 FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY TO CAMERON LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM-VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE- ST. LANDRY-CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE- UPPER ST. MARTIN-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN- WEST CAMERON-EAST CAMERON-TYLER-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE- NORTHERN JASPER-NORTHERN NEWTON-SOUTHERN JASPER-SOUTHERN NEWTON- 354 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013 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 A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION...IN RESPONSE TO A STALLED OUT COLD FRONT. HOWEVER...THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS VERY LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY BEFORE ENDING TUESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT FINALLY MOVES EAST OF OUR REGION. DRY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
942 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013
TXZ180-201-111630-
HARDIN TX-TYLER TX-
942 AM CST MON FEB 11 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HARDIN AND TYLER COUNTIES UNTIL
1030 AM CST...
AT 938 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THICKET...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 55 MPH.
* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HONEY ISLAND BY 955 AM...
WILDWOOD...VILLAGE MILLS AND KOUNTZE BY 1000 AM...
WARREN BY 1005 AM...
CANEY HEAD BY 1010 AM...
THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE PEA TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND
WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH...WHICH COULD DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW
AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR
BUILDING UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN A
SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER AROUND LOW LYING
ROADWAYS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED
ROADWAYS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW A SAFE CROSSING.
LAT...LON 3050 9463 3050 9455 3055 9456 3070 9426
3041 9411 3025 9465 3043 9472
24The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:01 UTC.
5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A user on social media sent a picture showing hail on the ground ranging from pea to quarter sized.
Car and property damage with quarter to nickel sized hail per ham radio operator.
KBMT relayed a report of 1 inch hail just east of Warren.
The Tyler County Sheriff’s Office reported quarter sized hail 10 miles WSW of Spurger on Farm to Market 1013.
Jasper Police sent a picture of hail ranging in size from penny sized to quarter sized.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 2013
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: 433219, 433220, 433221, 433222, 433223.