Funnel Cloud, Columbia
- When
- June 30, 11:05 AM CST to 11:08 AM CST
- Where
- Columbia County, Magnolia
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.214, -93.227 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Arkansas, June 30, 2001
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 Jun 30, 10:45 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 10:45 AM CST, 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1145 AM CDT SAT JUN 30 2001 UPDATE JUST SENT OUT. STORMS ALONG I30 CORRIDOR ARE FIZZLING. DECIDED TO LET FLASH FLOOD WATCH EXPIRE AT 11 AM. IR SATELLITE SHOWS THE AREA OF STORMS EARLIER OVER THE AREA SPLITTING...WITH STORMS OVER AR SHOOTING TO THE E...AND STORMS OVER N TX PUSHING S. SINCE MY CWFA IS IN THE MIDST OF THE SPLIT...STORMS ARE THUS FALLING APART. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY DID DEVELOP LIKE YESTERDAY WITH THE STORMS OVER OUR AREA...BUT UNLIKE YESTERDAY IT LOOKS AS IT THIS BOUNDARY WILL GET SWEPT UP WITH THE SPLITTING STORMS THUS PULLING IT OFF TO THE E OVER SW AR. THE SEA BREEZE OF TODAY IS MUCH WEAKER OVER LCH AREA WITH MOST OF THE ACTIVITY OVER NEW AND ON EWD TOWARD THE AL/FL GULF COAST. WITH ALL OF THIS SAID...DON/T BELIEVE WE WILL HAVE THE BATTLE ZONE OVER OUR AREA LIKE WE DID YESTERDAY OVER CENT LA/ DEEP E TX. I HAVE LOWER RAIN CHANCES OVER MOST ZONE GROUPS WITH HIGHEST POPS OVER ELD/S AREA. HOWEVER...I/M NOT IGNORING ALL OF THE AVAILABLE MOISTURE AND THE EXTRA HEATING THAT IS GOING ON. THUS...HAVE JUST SHAVED BACK AND NOT STRIPPED ANY AREA COMPLETELY OF RAIN CHANCES FOR T=HIS AFTERNOON. DID HAVE TO RAISE MAX TEMPS A TAD TO ACCOUNT FOR AFORE MENTIONED. 20 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 9:30 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-301655- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT SAT JUN 30 2001 THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA. A BOUNDARY ALONG INTERSTATE 30 WILL VERY SLOWLY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST. THIS BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...DURING THE HEAT OF THE DAY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY IN THE EVENING. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND SKYWARN NETWORKS...IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNO ON OR TONIGHT.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:05 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, June 30, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 30, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 30, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, June 30, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, June 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 30, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 30, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 30, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 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: 5250652.