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 Sep 12, 1:08 PM CST, 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 208 PM CDT WED SEP 12 2001 INVERTED TROF EXTENDS FROM GULF COAST...UP INTERSTATE 55 TO MEMPHIS...THEN ALONG INTERSTATE 40 TO NASHVILLE. NEAR AND JUST EAST OF TROF...DEWPOINTS RUNNING MUCH HIGHER THAN GUIDANCE...IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S. 18Z RUC RELAXES TROF DURING THE EVENING..AND THIS MAY ALLOW DRIER AIR TO RETURN TO THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA. OVERALL...MOISTURE RATHER LIMITED...SO LITTLE MORE THAN CLOUDS EXPECTED WITH NEXT REINFORCING SHOT OF COOL AIR...WHICH APPEARS TO ARRIVE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT OR FRIDAY. QUESTION LATER IN PERIOD WILL BE WHAT...IF ANY...EFFECT TD8 WILL HAVE ON WEATHER PATTERN. AVN TAKES IT EAST ACROSS FLORIDA OVER THE WEEKEND...WHICH WOULD LIMIT ANY EFFECTS TO BASICALLY JUST SLOWING DOWN THE CHANGING OF ANY WEATHER PATTERNS. NCEP EXTENDED SHOWS CHANCE OF PRECIP WEDNESDAY...BUT WITH QUESTIONS STILL REMAINING... WILL LEAVE DAY 7 DRY FOR NOW. TEMPS...WILL PROBABLY TEND A LITTLE ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR TONIGHT. PERSISTANCE LOOKS FINE FOR THURSDAY...THEN ABOUT 8 DEGREES COOLER MOST AREAS ON FRIDAY. EXPECTING IT TO BE SEASONABLY CHILLY ON SATURDAY MORNING. TEMPS NEAR OR BELOW NORMAL UNTIL MONDAY...THEN NEAR NORMAL. 10 PRELIM NUMBERS MEM BB 070/088 068/080 059 0-- MKL BB 062/085 060/078 052 0-- JBR BB 060/086 061/080 052 0-- TUP BB 067/088 065/082 055 0-- .MEG...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several streets were covered by water as thunderstorms dumped locally heavy rain over the area.
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, September 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: 5267926.