Thunderstorm Wind, Ouachita
- When
- June 21, 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Ouachita County, Calhoun
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.517, -92.367
Trees and power lines toppled.
Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 21, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 1:50 PM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 250 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES TODAY AS EVIDENT IN VISIBLE SATELLITE... WHICH HAVE FIRED UP A LINE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS NW SECTIONS OF CWFA. SEA BREEZE TRIGGERING SCATTERED ACTIVITY ACROSS SOUTH. SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING MIX WHEN TWO AREAS MEET. AS PER ETA...WILL GO WITH THIS SYSTEM MOVING ON OUT OF THE SE SECTIONS BY MIDDAY FRI WITH SUNNY SKIES NW TO DECREASING CLOUDS SE. THIS FRONT SHOULD BRING A WELCOME COOL DOWN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT ALAS TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY REBOUND BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND. NEXT SHOT OF RAIN WILL COME BACK INTO PLAY BY TUE AND ON INTO WED AND THU...AS WE WILL GET THE RETURN OF A SOUTHERLY FETCH...SUMMERTIME AFTERNOON ACTIVITY TYPE OF ROUTINE TO COME BACK INTO PLAY. WILL STILL NUDGE DOWN TXK HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM MOS DUE TO CONTAMINATION OF DATA...OTHERWISE WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR. PRELIMS... SHV 065/086 062/087 066 5000 MLU 069/085 063/087 065 6200 TXK 063/084 061/086 063 3000 TYR 064/084 062/089 066 4000 LFK 068/087 061/090 065 5100 20 .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 2:05 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
305 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0205 PM 2 S BETHEL OK .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 MCCURTAIN REPORTED ALONG HWY 259
BY GENERAL PUBLIC.
NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 21, 7:22 PM CST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
822 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM FARMERVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01 UNION TREES DOWN IN SEVERAL
LOCATIONS. WINDS BLEW
GRAVEL OFF THE GROUND IN A
PARKING LOT. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:37 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 2001
More
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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5250738.