Name: Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 11, 2001
Start: 2001-08-11T18:45
End: 2001-08-11T18:45
Location: Arkansas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $35,000
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 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:27 PM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:27 PM CST, 5 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
227 PM CDT SAT AUG 11 2001

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM SCENTRAL MS TO RUSTON TO MCCURTAIN COUNTY.
TSTMS FIRING ALONG IT GENERALLY EAST OF RUSTON BUT BY LATER
AFTERNOON SHOULD SEE SOME DEVELOPMENT WESTWARD TOO. ADDITIONAL
CONVECTION TRYING TO COME TOGETHER NEAR FTW AGAIN LIKE YESTERDAY. IN
ALL TONIGHT...HIGHEST POPS NORTH AND NE.

THUS...IT MIGHT DO WELL REPEAT YESTERDAY/S AFD...BUT WE ARE LOOKING
AT BOUNDARIES AND A FRONT WHICH WILL FOCUS CONVECTION... ESPECIALLY
NORTH AND EAST...TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. AVN IS SLIGHTLY SLOWER THAN
YESTERDAYS SOLUTION ABOUT THE DRYING OF THE LOW LEVELS COME
MONDAY...BUT IT AND THE ETA ARE VERY CLOSE WITH EACH OTHER. NGM
ISN/T TOO FAR BEHIND BUT LETS THE MOISTURE LOITER ABOUT A TAD
LONGER. MY POPS FOR MONDAY WILL UNDERCUT MOS GUIDANCE...FROM NO POPS
FAR NORTH TO 40 PERCENT SE.

ALL OF THIS JUNK IS SLATED TO BE EJECTED DURING MONDAY BY NW FLOW AS
EASTERN TROF AMPLIFIES AND SFC FRONT GETS SHOVED TO OUR SOUTH. NEW
MRF HAS RETURN MOISTURE FOR THE NW ON THURSDAY...BUT BEING THIS FAR
IT OUT WILL ONLY PROMPT ME TO CHANGE THE MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY
CLOUDY. BANKING THAT PRECIP WILL BE TOO ISOLATED TO MENTION AT THIS
TIME. IS OCTOBER HERE YET? 17

PRELIMS...

SHV 75/95/75/95/72 3432
MLU 75/92/72/92/70 4432
TXK 73/92/70/93/70 4422
TYR 75/95/75/95/72 2332
LFK 74/96/73/93/72 1233

.SHV...NONE.

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Miller

When: August 11, 6:45 PM CST
Where: Miller County, Fouke
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $35,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 33.267, -93.883

Large oak tree fell and crushed a new car.

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 Arkansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Arkansas, August 2001

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: 5263188.