Power Outage in Lufkin, TX

Power lines were downed just west of the Angelina County Airport in Burke.

A power line was downed across a vehicle on Tulane Street, trapping the two occupants inside. No injuries were reported.

A few trees and power lines were blown down in Downtown Lufkin.

Numerous trees and power lines were downed all along the Highway 69 corridor from Pollok to Lufkin. Multiple power outages were associated with this wind damage.

Power lines were downed across FM 1818.

Power lines were blown down across County Roads 116 and 117.

Several trees and power lines were downed along Highway 59 between FM 2021 and Winston 8 Ranch Road in the Redland community.

An EF0 tornado first touched down at the intersection of Church Street and Grant Avenue and began to move east southeast through southeast Lufkin. During this stretch, several large trees were uprooted , knocking over power poles and taking down power lines. A few of these trees fell directly on to homes. The tornado crossed the 287 loop between Highway 69 and CR 841. Several large trees were uprooted and numerous large branches were broken off as it paralleled Fannie Carrell Road as it continued southeast, eventually crossing CR 841 near Fish Road. The tornado lifted near the intersection of Flen Gary Road and CR 326 but not before knocking over several more large trees there, with one on a home.

An EF0 tornado first touched down at the intersection of Church Street and Grant Avenue and began to move east southeast through southeast Lufkin. During this stretch, several large trees were uprooted , knocking over power poles and taking down power lines. A few of these trees fell directly on to homes. The tornado crossed the 287 loop between Highway 69 and CR 841. Several large trees were uprooted and numerous large branches were broken off as it paralleled Fannie Carrell Road as it continued southeast, eventually crossing CR 841 near Fish Road. The tornado lifted near the intersection of Flen Gary Road and CR 326 but not before knocking over several more large trees there, with one on a home.

Powerlines were downed at the intersection of Kurth Drive and Lakeview Street in Lufkin, Texas.

Trees were downed on a powerline on FM. 819 east of Burke, Texas.

Widespread wind damage was reported across all of Angelina County. Numerous trees were downed, along with many powerlines resulting in widespread power outages. Some structural damage was also reported with roof damage either from the wind or from fallen trees, along with trees on automobiles.

Wind damage was quite extensive in and around the Lufkin, Texas area. Numerous trees and power lines were downed including a tree down on a house on the 1700 block of Courtney Lane. A local retailer on FM 58 lost at least two of its portable buildings in the wake of the strong winds. An entire wall on a South Chestnut Street business was completely torn down by the winds. Another local retailer experienced damage to its AC units along with falling ceiling tiles. At the DPS office in Lufkin, the storm shattered the back window of a DPS truck and broke the windows of an employee's personal vehicle.

Trees and powerlines were downed in parts of the county east of Lufkin, Texas.

Trees and powerlines were downed across the entire county.

A wind gust of 69 mph was measured at the Lufkin, Texas ASOS before the sensor went out due to a power failure. Stronger winds sustained near 74 mph with higher gusts likely effected portions of Angelina County however the wind equipment at the Lufkin airport was inoperable at the time.

Several trees were downed along with some power lines across the city.

Half a dozen trees and several powerlines were downed in the Brookhollow and Mantooth neighboorhoods in Lufkin, Texas. One tree fell on top of an automobile. a local church had two large plate glass windows blown inward by the winds. Parts of air conditioning units were also blown off the roof of the Angelina Village and the Lufkin Mall. The winds also peeled off a metal roof of a rectory at the St. Andrew Church. With the roof gone, rain quickly soaked and collapsed the ceilings into the interior of the home.

Multiple reports of downed trees and power lines throughout the county.

Several trees uprooted and a roof was partially removed from a house. Several powerlines downed.

Power lines downed on FM 2108.

Trees and power lines downed throughout the county.

Numerous trees down, roofs off of 2 buildings, transformer and structure fires from downed power lines.

A large and amplifying upper trough dug south through the eastern two-thirds of the United States along and east of the Rockies on December 22nd, which ushered in the coldest temperatures for December in decades to much of the country leading up to the Christmas Day holiday weekend. This very cold arctic air mass moved into extreme Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the morning hours of the 22nd, with temperatures falling sharply some 20-30+ degrees with the attendant cold frontal passage into the single digits and lower teens by the morning hours of the 23rd. Very strong and gusty northwest winds of 35-45 mph were observed behind the front even through the morning of the 24th, producing a long duration of wind chill values ranging from 0 to as low as -7 degrees across Deep East Texas from the evening of the 22nd to the morning of the 24th. While the temperatures associated with this arctic air mass were not quite record-breaking for this time of year, the long duration of subfreezing temperatures, which persisted nearly 2 days, resulted in multiple reports of freezing and bursting of water pipes, as well as sporadic power outages across these areas.||Here are the lowest wind chill values recorded across Deep East Texas from December 22nd through the morning of the 24th:||Cherokee County: 2 SSE New Summerfield, -7 degrees; Jacksonville, -6 degrees. |Rusk County: Henderson, -7 degrees; 1 NW Tatum, -7 degrees; Lake Striker, -5 degrees; Henderson Rusk County Airport, -3 degrees. |Panola County: Panola County Airport, -7 degrees; Carthage, -6 degrees; Nansco Farms (Gary), -6 degrees; Lake Murvaul, -4 degrees. |Shelby County: Center, -4 degrees. |Nacogdoches County: Nacogdoches A.L. Mangham Jr. Airport, -7 degrees; Nacogdoches Lumberjack RAWS, -6 degrees; Nacogdoches, -3 degrees; Etoile, 0 degrees. |Angelina County: Lufkin, -3 degrees; Lufkin Angelina County Airport (Burke), -2 degrees; Zavalla, 3 degrees; Huntington, 5 degrees.|San Augustine County: San Augustine, -2 degrees. |Sabine County: Sabine South RAWS, 5 degrees.

An upper low pressure system spinning over Deep South Texas during the afternoon of July 6th, produced a weak trough axis that extended along the Southeast Texas coast into Southwest and Central Louisiana and Central Mississippi. These upper level features enhanced the seabreeze, with a cluster of showers and thunderstorms quickly spreading inland across Southern and Central Louisiana and Deep East and Southeast Texas. Diurnal heating resulted in temperatures climbing into the lower 90s across Deep East Texas and Central Louisiana on the 6th, resulting in moderate instability within a very moist air mass in place. These showers and thunderstorms intensified as they spread west into the unstable environment in Deep East Texas, with an isolated severe thunderstorm developing over Angelina County, producing damaging winds that downed trees and power lines near Zavalla, Huntington, and Burke. A 62 mph wind gust was also measured at the Angelina County Airport from these storms, before they quickly entered Northern Trinity and Southeast Houston Counties and weakened.

An upper level low pressure system shifted southeast across Southern Kansas during the morning and afternoon hours of April 7th, which drove a cold front southeast into Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas, and Northeast Texas during the morning. A strong low level jet ahead of this upper low and associated cold front ushered ample Gulf moisture northward into East Texas and North Louisiana, with large scale forcing, shear, and instability increasing during the afternoon along and just ahead of the front contributing to the development of a line of severe thunderstorms across portions of Deep East Texas and North Louisiana. These storms downed trees and power lines across Angelina and Southern San Augustine Counties before shifting southeast into Southeast Texas and West-Central Louisiana in the late afternoon.

A strong upper trough moved across Eastern Oklahoma and East-Central Texas during the morning hours of October 23rd, before progressing east across Southwest Arkansas and North Louisiana during the afternoon. This trough reinforced a strong cold front southeast through the region, with warm, humid air and deepening moisture spreading north into the areas ahead of the front. With the increase in large scale forcing along and ahead of the front and accompanying upper trough, scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed over much of the region, with one of these storms briefly becoming severe during the early afternoon hours over Central Angelina County, where damaging winds downed a few trees and power lines in Downtown Lufkin. These storms diminished during the late afternoon and early evening with the departure of the front, as much cooler air drier air spilled southeast in its wake.

Major Hurricane Laura tracked north northwest across the Central and Northern Gulf of Mexico from the Central Carribean Sea near Cuba, making landfall in Southwest Louisiana near Cameron around 1 am on August 27th as a strong Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 938 mb. Laura remained a hurricane as it tracked north across Southwest and Central Louisiana and into Natchitoches Parish, before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved northeast across Northcentral Louisiana and Southcentral Arkansas. Despite being on the west side of Laura's center, portions of extreme Eastern Texas observed wind gusts between 45-60+ mph, mainly across Sabine, San Augustine, Angelina, Shelby, Rusk, Panola, and Harrison Counties. These winds downed trees and power lines over these areas during the morning, before winds weakened in the afternoon with the departure of Laura into Southern Arkansas. Rainfall amounts ranged from 1.50-3.00 inches across the eastern border counties with Louisiana. Higher amounts of 3-6+ inches were observed across Southern Panola, Shelby, San Augustine, and Sabine Counties. However, no flooding was reported across East Texas from Hurricane Laura.||Here are the peak wind gusts at various automated stations across the affected areas of East Texas: ||Marshall (Harrison County), 48 mph|Carthage (Panola County), 47 mph|Sabine South RAWS (Sabine County), 44 mph |San Augustine (San Augustine County), 36 mph. ||Here are the known damage across various counties affected in East Texas: ||Angelina County: Scattered trees and power lines down countywide. ||San Augustine County: Scattered trees and power lines down countywide. ||Sabine County: Numerous trees down across the eastern half of the county with more sporadic damage across the western half of the county. The roof of a Ashley Furniture store collapsed in Hemphill. The damage otherwise was mostly uprooted trees and large broken branches, with trees falling through homes in the McGee's Landing area. A pine tree fell into a single wide mobile home and killed a 54 year old man in the Pendleton Harbor subdivision near Toledo Bend Reservoir. The tree fall was generally to the south-southwest to south-southeast. ||Shelby County: Scattered trees and power lines down countywide. ||Panola County: Sporadic trees down in Carthage and southwest of De Berry. ||Rusk County: Numerous trees and power lines down countywide. ||Harrison County: A tree was blown down onto a house in Waskom. Sporadic trees were also downed across various locations in the county.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed over Southeast Texas during the mid and late afternoon hours, along the tail end of an upper trough axis that extended from Western Arkansas across Western Louisiana and extreme Eastern Texas. Afternoon temperatures in the lower 90s within the moist air mass contributed to moderate instability developing as these storms shifted north-northeast, with an isolated severe thunderstorm developing as it moved along the Cherokee/Angelina County Texas line. This storm produced damaging winds which downed power lines just southeast of Wells before quickly weakening as it moved into Southwest Nacogdoches County.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed over portions of Deep East Texas during the overnight and through the morning hours of July 31st, near an old outflow boundary from a complex of thunderstorms that dissipated during the early afternoon hours of July 30th over North Texas. An approaching positive tilt upper level trough diving south through the Southern Plains enhanced large scale forcing near this surface boundary during the overnight hours, which persisted for several hours across Angelina County. Given the available instability, isolated strong to severe thunderstorms developed just north of Lufkin just prior to daybreak, resulting in damaging winds which downed several trees and power lines in the Redland community. These storms also produced prolonged period of heavy rainfall, which resulted in flash flooding across Lufkin and Eastern Angelina County, where widespread rainfall amounts of three to in excess of six inches fell across these areas. The heavy rainfall ended by mid-morning on the 31st as the storms pushed southeast into Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developing during the afternoon on May 26th, near a weak surface boundary from earlier showers and thunderstorms that formed earlier in the day. Strong daytime heating and ample low level moisture interacted with this surface boundary, which resulted in an isolated severe thunderstorm developing over Eastern Angelina County, Texas, and downed trees and power lines east of Zavalla.

Tropical Storm Harvey emerged back over the Northwest Gulf of Mexico during the morning hours of August 28th, and intensified slightly as drifted northwest just off the Southeast Texas coast, eventually making a 3rd landfall near Cameron, Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th. The persistent outer bands of Tropical Storm Harvey began consistently affecting Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, and Sabine Counties throughout the day on August 30th, resulting in reports of downed trees and power lines as some of the stronger squalls produced wind gusts to 35-40 mph with locally higher gusts atop already saturated grounds. ||In Angelina County, trees were blown down on FM 1818 near Biloxi Creek about 5 miles east southeast of Diboll. In Nacogdoches County, power lines were blown down across FM 2259, 3 miles southeast of Highway 224 just southeast of Nacogdoches. A tree also fell across both lanes of FM 95 about 4 miles south of Martinsville. In San Augustine County, several trees and power lines were blown down in Broaddus. In Sabine County, a tree fell on FM 2024 just east of Bronson, causing a vehicle to crash. There were unknown injuries. In addition, trees were blown down across Highway 87 at Redhill Lake, Odis Lowe Road, and FM 1592 about 1 mile north of Highway 184 in Northern Sabine County.

Tropical Storm Harvey emerged back over the Northwest Gulf of Mexico during the morning hours of August 28th, and intensified slightly as drifted northwest just off the Southeast Texas coast, eventually making a 3rd landfall near Cameron, Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th. The persistent outer bands of Tropical Storm Harvey began consistently affecting Angelina County, Texas during the afternoon and evening of August 27th, with persistent training resulting in flash flooding. Breaks in the heavy rain were observed through much of the 28th before affecting Angelina County again during the late afternoon/evening hours, which continued through the early morning hours on August 29th. After Harvey made landfall in far Southwest Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 30th, the more concentrated bands of heavy rain were concentrated on the northwest side of the center, which slowly drifted northeast into Central Louisiana during the afternoon and evening hours. Thus, more significant reports of flash flooding were received across Deep East Texas and Westcentral Louisiana, before drier air had begun to wrap around the center, thus reducing rainfall rates as the center moved into Northeast Louisiana during the early morning hours of August 31st. In addition to the widespread flooding, reports of downed trees and power lines were received over portions of Deep East Texas and Northcentral Louisiana, as some of the stronger squalls produced wind gusts to 35-40 mph with locally higher gusts atop already saturated grounds.||Here are some of the 4 day cumulative rainfall reports across Deep East Texas from Tropical Storm Harvey: In Angelina County, 2 ESE Zavalla 20.27 inches, 2 ENE Zavalla 17.32 inches, Huntington 13.94 inches, Lufkin Angelina Airport 12.11 inches, 1 SSE Lufkin 11.96 inches, 3 SW Lufkin 11.74 inches, 8 W Lufkin 10.17 inches, 5 WNW Lufkin 10.00 inches, 7 W Lufkin 9.60 inches, 2 WSW Hudson 9.09 inches. In Nacogdoches County, 4 NW Appleby 9.91 inches, Nacogdoches Arbor Oaks 8.35 inches, 10 NE Nacogdoches 6.38 inches. In Sabine County, Pineland 15.67 inches, Sabine South RAWS 14.36 inches, 4 SSE Hemphill 8.77 inches. In San Augustine County, 15 SE Broaddus 19.01 inches, Ayish Bayou 15.45 inches. In Shelby County, 4 SSW Huxley 13.24 inches, Center 0.6 NW 6.62 inches, Center 4.26 inches. In addition, the Neches River gauge near Rockland recorded 21.93 inches, with Sam Rayburn Dam recording 18.21 inches.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours of August 22nd, 2015 across East Texas, North Louisiana, Southwest Arkansas and Southeast Oklahoma, where strong heating within a zone of deep moisture occurred ahead of an upper level disturbance that progressed east across the region. An isolated severe thunderstorm developed over Central Angelina County Texas, resulting in downed power lines in the city of Lufkin.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed in a very unstable atmosphere across portions of northeast Texas and extreme northwest Louisiana during the afternoon and evening hours of August 3rd. Excessive heat with temperatures in the triple digits resulted in strong instability across the region. A weak disturbance aloft moved westward out of Mississippi and was the trigger for storm initiation. As a result, severe thunderstorms once again produced strong wind gusts which downed powerlines and large hail was also reported in a few locations.

Hurricane Rita moved onshore the Southeast Texas/Southwest Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 24, 2005 and moved northward into portions of East Central Texas during the predawn hours. The hurricane remained a category two storm as it moved northward into extreme eastern Angelina County, extreme southeast Nacogdoches County, San Augustine County and Sabine County Texas. A NWS Storm Survey was conducted of the hardest hit areas of East Central Texas and this region experienced widespread damage consistent of winds with a category two hurricane. A few hundred homes experienced damage that varied from shingles off roofs to collapsed carports or awnings to damage caused by downed trees on top of homes, businesses and automobiles. Particularly hard hit areas were those surveyed near and east of the Sam Rayburn Reservoir of East Central Texas. This region experienced winds adjacent to the northern and eastern eyewall of Hurricane Rita and extensive damage was observed to many rural homes and communities along the storms path. Much of this region was without power during the height of the storm. There was one direct fatality resulting from the storm when a downed tree fell across a man outside his residence. There was one indirect fatality from the storm when a young woman touched a downed powerline. A monetary amount was not available at the time of this report.