1 flash 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 11, 9:10 AM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1010 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER PRECLUDES MUCH DISCUSSION TODAY. WILL UPDATE TEXAS ZONES TO INCLUDE NEW TORNADO WATCH OVER SOUTHWEST AR AND NORTH LA. OTHER THAN THAT...CURRENT ZONES WILL BE MODIFIED ONLY SLIGHTLY. 03 .SHV...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
550 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 AM PLAIN DEALING LA FLOODING
10/11/01 BOSSIER WATER INTO HOUSE NORTH OF
PLAIN DEALING. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
0400 AM JEFFERSON AR FLOODING
10/11/01 COLUMBIA RAILROAD UNDERPASS UNDER
WATER 1/2 MILE EAST OF
COUNTY LINE ON HWY 82.
18 WHEELER DAMAGED
ATTEMPTING TO CROSS.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0500 AM STAMPS AR FLOODING
10/11/01 LAFAYETTE FULLER MILL ROAD CLOSED
DUE TO WATER. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.ARZ061-070>072-LAZ002-TXZ112-111400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 636 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 OVERNIGHT FLOODING HAS RECEDED IN SOME AREAS...AND WILL SLOWLY RECEDE IN OTHERS THIS MORNING. FLOODING HAS PRODUCED TRAVELING HAZARDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT WATER ON ROADWAYS HAS CONTRIBUTED TO EARLY MORNING ACCIDENTS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO REDUCE SPEED AND EXERCISE GREAT CAUTION THIS MORNING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...AND AVOID ENTERING WATER THAT IS SWIFTLY FLOWING. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY FALL AT TIMES...THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...WHICH MAY AGGRAVATE FLOODING CONDITIONS. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING OCCURS...BY MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-111630- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1015 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF NORTH LOUISIANA...AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. A WEAK COLD FRONT TRIGGERED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS LATE THIS MORNING. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA...AND SOUTH ARKANSAS DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS...WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND SPOTTER GROUPS...MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:42 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous roads closed from high water. The county was declared a disaster area due to the washed out roads and bridges. Nearly 8 inches of rain fell in less than 12 hours.
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, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5269473.