1 lightning, 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 16, 10:10 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1110 AM CDT THU AUG 16 2001 UPDATE JUST SENT OUT TO ACCOMMODATE FOR TRENDS IN RAIN CHANCES AND TEMPERATURES. WIDE RANGE IN TEMPERATURES FROM LOWER 70S IN MCCURTAIN CO OK...TO 90 DEGREES ALREADY IN MONROE. TWEAKS DOWN TEMPERATURES IN NW ZONES...AND UP IN N LA. ALSO SCALED BACK RAINFALL CHANCES IN FIRST PERIOD. 20 .SHV...NONE.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-161630- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT THU AUG 16 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A FRONTAL SYSTEM ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE PORTIONS OF THE FOUR STATE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THE ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND SKYWARN NETWORKS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home and blew up an air-conditioning unit and a telephone line. No injuries were reported.
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: 5263323.