1 heat, 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 Aug 1, 1:30 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 230 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2001 WHAT HOPEFULLY WILL BE THE FINAL DISTURBANCE FOR A WHILE IS TAKING SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WESTWARD INTO NE TX AND SE OK. DRIER AND NOT AS HOT AIRMASS MOVING IN BEHIND IT FROM THE EAST. TEMPS IN THE FCST WILL NOT GO ABOVE MID 90S...AND LOWER AFTERNOON DEWPOINTS DOOMS THE HEAT ADVISORY. I THINK WE/LL GET A CLEARER START TO THE DAY THURSDAY THAN EAST MS GOT TODAY...THUS WE MAY GET WARMER TOMORROW THAN THEY ARE GETTING TODAY IN THE SAME AIRMASS. MID 90S ALL LOCATIONS TOMORROW...BUT LOW 90S MAY BE ALL SOME PLACES GET. MAY INCLUDE LOW EVENING POPS FOR TX ACTIVITY THIS EVENING...BUT A DRY FORECAST WILL BE THE RULE UNTIL THE EXTENDED WHEN HARD-TO-PIN-DOWN UPPER LOW BEGINS TO AFFECT THE AREA. PRELIMS... SHV 73/95/72/94/73 1001 MLU 71/94/70/93/71 0001 TXK 74/95/72/94/72 1001 TYR 75/95/73/94/73 1001 LFK 72/95/7:1/94/71 1001 .SHV...NONE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A woman died in her home in Shreveport from excessive heat and was found by her son during a daily visit after work. The house was excessively hot and two box fans were running, but an air conditioner was turned off and not used, because she could not afford the cost of electricity.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Caddo | 2001-08-01 | 68 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, August 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: 5263187.