A area of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across portions of southeast and east central Louisiana. Downed trees and power lines were reported in several areas.
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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 episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
A area of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across portions of southeast and east central Louisiana. Downed trees and power lines were reported in several areas. During the evening, the power company reported 25,000 customers without power.
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 Jul 11, 1:00 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 200 PM CDT WED JUL 11 2001 THE AVN SHOWS THE 500 MILLIBAR HIGH CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH MONDAY. AN UPPER TROF ALONG THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD AND INTO THE NORTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE AREA BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING THEN BEGIN TO DISSIPATE. IMPULSES ROTATING ACROSS THE TOP OF THE UPPER WILL AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MOST OF THE PERIOD. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BEGIN TO MODERATE AS CLOUDINESS INCREASES AND THE ATMOSPHERE IS INFLUENCED BY RAIN COOLED AIR. WILL LIKELY SEE AN INCREASE IN CONVECTION EARLY THURSDAY MORNING IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA AS AN IMPULSE DROPS SOUTHEAST OUT OF ARKANSAS. GUIDANCE MAX TEMPERATURES LOOK SLIGHTLY HIGH FOR THURSDAY AND WILL ADJUST DOWNWARD. GUIDANCE POPS APPEAR REASONABLE. MCB 76/93/75/88 3445 BTR 77/92/77/90 2445 MSY 78/93/77/90 3445 GPT 76/93/75/90 4545 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 23
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
9 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down. A car and home were damaged by the fallen trees.
Several trees were blown down.
Several trees were blown down.
Several large trees were blown down. A truck and trailer were heavily damaged by falling trees.
Several trees and large tree limbs were blown down in the central section of Baton Rouge.
A NWS cooperative observer and spotter reported wind gusts estimated near 80 mph. Trees and power lines were also blown down.
Multiple trees were blown down.
Several trees and power lines were blown down.
Trees were reported blown down in several locations.
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, July 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: 5257808, 5257809, 5257810, 5257815, 5257816, 5257814, 5257811, 5257812, 5257813.