Name: Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 15, 2001
Start: 2001-04-15T13:20
End: 2001-04-15T13:20
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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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 Apr 15, 10:10 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 10:10 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1110 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2001

UPDATED TO REMOVE POPS NORTH...INCREASE THEM FOR MONROE. MAX TEMPS
WERE ADJUSTED ACCORDING TO CURRENT TEMPS AND CLOUD COVER. RAISED FAR
NW...LOWERED SOME OTHERS. ON THE WHOLE...FORECAST SHAPING UP WELL AS
BAND OF SHWRS AND TSTMS MOVE SEWD. 17

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 50 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>167-151630-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1030 AM CDT SUN APR 15 2001

A SOUTHWARD MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE THREAT OF
THUNDERSTORMS HAS ALREADY ENDED FOR IDABEL...NEW BOSTON...AND HOPE.
MOST OF THE REMAINING ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR OVER LOUISIANA...WITH
SCATTERED STORMS ALSO POSSIBLE OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS. ALTHOUGH UPPER
LEVEL INSTABILITY IS GREAT...WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWEST TWO
MILES OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL TEND TO INHIBIT THE POSSIBILITY OF A
SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK. THERE REMAINS...HOWEVER...A SLIGHT CHANCE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY AND THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF
LOUISIANA...AS WELL AS FOR THOSE PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ALONG
AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR. IF SEVERE THUMNDERSTORMS DO
DEVELOP...THE PRIMARY THREAT POSED WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS.

THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS...AND SKYWARN
NETWORKS...IS NOT YET ANTICIPATED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Winn

When: April 15, 1:20 PM CST
Where: Winn County, 5 mi SE of Winnfield
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.867, -92.567

Trees were blown down across Hwy 84.

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 Louisiana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, April 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: 5236613.