A thunderstorm moved through Orange County Tuesday afternoon and brought a relieving drop in the temperature plus bit of rain to parched grass.
The National Weather Service station at the Orange County Airport recorded a temperature of 100 degrees at 1:15 p.m. By mid-afternoon it had dropped to 99 and when the storm came it dropped to 79 degrees within a few minutes. The temperature eventually dropped to 73.
The airport and the Sabine River Authority gauge on Pier Road each had a little more than half an inch of rain.
Entergy scattered power outages affecting about 600 Orange County customers during the rain. Two power outages were reported at 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. One was along 16th Street north of Interstate 10. The traffic lights at the interstate overpass were out, along with the Greenway Park I neighborhood. Also, part of Roselawn was without power during the morning.
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