Name: Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 21, 2001
Start: 2001-07-21T16:38
End: 2001-07-21T16:38
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 21, 2:40 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:40 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
340 PM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001

DUE TO CONSTRAINTS OF TIME...WILL BE VERY BRIEF.

RDA OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKE. EL TECH ENROUTE TO
INITIATE REPAIRS. WE ARE CLOSELY MONITORING MOSAIC OF SURROUNDING
OFFICES.

WEATHER IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN WITH MCS OVER THE CWA THIS
AFTERNOON AS DISCUSSED YESTERDAY. PRETTY STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH 38
KTS MEASURED AT KNEW AS SQUALL LINE ROLLS THROUGH.

BACK DOOR FRONT MEANDERING IN AS INDUCED BY CONVECTION. STILL GOING
VERY CLOSE TO AVN FOR TEMPS AND POPS. EXTENDED WILL BE CONTINUITY
FROM PREVIOUS PACKAGES.

MCB 73/93/72/93 2412    BTR 75/93/7l4/93 2412
MSY 77/93/76/93 3411    GPT 75/91/74/91 2411

.NEW...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 2:44 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Tangipahoa

When: July 21, 4:38 PM CST
Where: Tangipahoa County, Kentwood
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.933, -90.517

Several trees were blown down blocking roads.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Louisiana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, July 2001

Sources

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5257905.