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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 2:55 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
255 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001
BOUNDARY FROM MORNING CONVECTION OVER PORTIONS OF SE LA/CSTL MS HAS REMAINED
NEARLY STATIONARY INTO THE AFTN HOURS AND THUS KEPT THE MEX TEMPS
DOWN A FEW DEGS. HOWEVER WITH THE APPROACH OF THE NEXT STRONGER S/W TROF
AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT A SQUALL LINE WILL ACCOMPANY ITS PRGRESS
ACROSS THE LOWER MS VALLEY. HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS LIKELY TO PRECEDE
THE FRONT DUE TO RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARY OVER SE LA/CSTL MS. INCREASING
LOW LEVEL JET AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND JET MAX TO THE NE OF THE REGION
MAY STILL HELP TO PROVIDE THE DYNAMICS FOR A FEW SEVERE STORMS
TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.
PRECIP SHOULD END TOWARDS DAYBREAK AS S/W TROF ACCELERATES OUT TO
THE NE. DRY WEATHER EXPECTED FRI AND SAT TO BE FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER
ROUND OF PRECIP ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEXT STRONG S/W TROF DIGGING
TOWARDS THE SRN ROCKIES BY SAT AND THEN TURNING EWD ACROSS TEXAS
SUN. BERST CHANCES FOR PRECIP WITH THE WEEKEND SYSTEM WILL BE SAT
NIGHT INTO SUN NIGHT.
THUS CHANGEABLE WEATHER STILL SEEMS TO BE THE RULE FOR THE NEXT WEEK
BUT NO REAL THREAT OF COLD WEATHER MOVING SOUTH IN THE LOWER MS
VALLEY. SYNOPTIC PATTERN IS STILL VERY PROGRESSIVE FROM THE PACIFIC
ACROSS THE U.S. PRELIM NUMBERS FOLLOW.
MCB 52/62/42/66 9001 BTR 53/62/45/70 9001
MSY 57/64/50/69 8101 GPT 57/64/48/67 8202
.NEW...SMALL CRAFT ADZY...COASTAL WATERS KPQL-ATCHAFALAYA RVR AND
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN/MAUREPAS.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.
05LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 531 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001 .SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST LOUISIANA TO SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI LATE TONIGHT. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. .ACTIONS... ACTIVATION OF WEATHER EMERGENCY OPERATIONS MAY BE NECESSARY TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused over 5,000 homes and businesses to lose power.
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, December 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: 5276260.