1 funnel cloud, 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 14, 1:40 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 240 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001 WEAK TROUGH ACROSS THE MS COASTAL WATERS INTO THE LOWER PARISHES BECOMING DIFFUSE WHILE FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF KMOB TO KMCB TO SOUTH OF KHEZ ALSO BECOMING FRONTOLYTIC. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY QUITE INDICATIVE OF NOODLED HODOGRAPH WITH SLOW MOVEMENT ...SHORT LIFE-SPANS AND LIMITED INTENSITY. MODELS SHOWING A SHORT-TERM RELATIVE DRYING TREND FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS FOLLOWED BY A RETURN TO A WET WEEKEND PATTERN. THE AVN STILL APPEARS TO BE THE SUPERIOR PERFORMER AND WILL GO CLOSE TO ITS GUIDANCE. DEVELOPING FRONT OVER THE HIGH PLAINS IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LATE WED INTO THURSDAY WHICH WILL SERVE TO MODIFY THE FLOW PATTERN TO A DEEPER ONSHORE FETCH. THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE FORECAST AREA TO SERVE AS A SIGNIFICANT FOCUS FOR CONVECTION ON FRIDAY...AND LINGERING THROUGH SUNDAY. INTEND TO MAINTAIN GOOD CHANCE WORDING FOR THE WEEKEND WITH THIS IN MIND. THE COASTAL FORECAST REMAINS QUITE TRANQUIL THROUGHOUT. TROPICS IN THE GULF REMAIN QUIET WHILE THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC IS BECOMING A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING. PRELIM NUMBERS... MCB 070/091/072/088 1314 BTR 072/091/075/090 1424 MSY 075/091/075/090 1424 GPT 073/088/074/088 1214 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 24
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1110 AM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TROUGH SITUATED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES TO EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WITH RATES AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS COULD RANGE BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES THROUGH THIS EVENING...PRIMARILY ACROSS THE SOUTH SHORE PARISHES OF LOUISIANA AND ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL AREAS OF MISSISSIPPI. .ACTIONS... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS...HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LETTERS SHOULD BE LOWER CASE).
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 225 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TROUGH SITUATED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL COUNTIES TO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WITH RATES AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR. RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS COULD RANGE BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES THROUGH THIS EVENING...PRIMARILY ACROSS THE SOUTH SHORE PARISHES OF LOUISIANA AND ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL AREAS OF MISSISSIPPI. .ACTIONS ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS...HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel clouds were observed near Lockport and over Lake Salvador.
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: 5264104.