1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 12, 1:45 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 145 PM CST WED DEC 12 2001 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS HAS THE WARM FRONT PUSHING INTO SW TN W/ AN ELONGATED SFC LOW EXTENDING FROM SE MO INTO CNTRL TX. TEMPS CURRENTLY IN THE 50S ACROSS THE CWFA AND WOULD EXPECT STEADY/SLOWLY RISING TEMPS OVNT W/ WARM FROPA. MOSAIC RADAR AND IR IMAGERY INDICATES A LARGE AREA OF RAIN FROM LWR OH VLY TO THE SE TX COAST. RAINFALL HAS BEEN HEAVY AT TIMES ACROSS THE CWFA TODAY W/ PRECIP ESTIMATES INDICATING ONE TO THREE INCHES ACROSS PARTS OF WEST TN...SERN AR AND NW MS. HAVE SEEN LITTLE IF ANY CG STRIKES ACROSS THE MID SOUTH TODAY W/ THE BULK OF THE TSRA ACROSS THE ARKLATEX (JUST AHEAD OF THE SFC FRONT). WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING WELL DEFINED MID LEVEL DRY SLOT SURGING INTO ERN OK/TX WHICH IS LIKELY AIDING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT THERE. MODELS FAIRLY CONSISTENT MOVING MAIN PRECIP AREA EWD TNGT. HOWEVER ...BASED ON CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT TO OUR SW...STEEPER LAPSE RATES ADVECTING INTO THE REGION TNGT AND DEEP SRLY FLOW...ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIP IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION TNGT. THUS...WILL CONTINUE FFA TNGT FOR ALL BUT NE AR/MO BOOTHEEL. LONGER TERM...WILL KEEP TREND OF THE CURRENT ZFP. FINAL S/W TROUGH DOES NOT CLEAR THE REGION FRI NGT...SO WILL CONTINUE CHC POPS MOST LOCATIONS THU/THU NGT (LKLY ACROSS NE MS). MID SOUTH SHOULD CLEAR AT LEAST TEMPORARILY ON FRI BEFORE NEXT SYSTEM STARTS TO AFFECT THE REGION LATE SAT INTO SUN. MEM CB 051/061 044/054 043 834- MKL RB 052/060 042/053 039 +551 JBR CB 047/057 040/051 039 623- TUP RB 056/063 047/057 042 +771 .MEG...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT WEST TN...SERN AR...NRN MS. CBD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Some roads had water over them.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, December 2001
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: 5276402.