1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jun 4, 1:50 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 250 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 SEA BREEZE TYPE CONVECTION HAS SPREAD ACROSS THE ENTIRE SE HALF OF AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A DEEP CLOSED LOW ARRIVING ONSHORE THE SE TX COAST WILL RESULT IN A DEEP SOUTHERLY FETCH OF MOISTURE INTO AREA. ALL THREE MODELS POINTING TO HIGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS. AN ELEVATED CONVECTIVE TROPICAL RAIN EVENT BEST DESCRIBES IT. AS UPPER LOW TRAVEL NE ACROSS NORTH LA...TIGHT CIRCULATION AROUND LOW MAY INDUCE ENOUGH SHEAR FOR STORM ROTATION. HOWEVER...DUE TO LACK OF INSTABILITY OR BOUNDARIES WILL LIMIT ANY SEVERE THREAT...AS WARM FRONT REMAINS WELL NORTH OF AREA. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN FORECAST...MAINLY LOUISIANA SECTIONS...FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. TEND TO FAVOR MORE PROGRESSIVE AVN WHICH WILL COMMENCE HEALTHY MID LEVEL NORTHERLY FLOW ON BACKSIDE OF LOW. THIS FLOW WILL LOCK IN THRU THE WEEKEND AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER DESERT SW. COMBINATION OF DEEP MOISTURE IN SHORT TERM AND NORTH FLOW IN LONG RANGE SHOULD PREVENT MERCURY FROM REACHING THE 90 MARK NEXT FEW DAYS. SHV 73/85/69/81 4576 MLU 70/85/71/79 5677 TXK 72/86/68/80 3365 TYR 73/85/72/83 3464 LFK 71/83/72/81 5775 VII .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>167-041634- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWARD TOWARDS THE UPPER TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA COASTS. THIS LOW PRESSURE AREA WILL BE SPREADING MOISTURE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FOUR STATE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE UP TO ONE INCH HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...HOWEVER THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ISOLATED. DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN NETWORKS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-041634- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1034 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 HIGHLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR FROM THE GULF HAVE RESULTED IN SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA. THIS ACTIVITY WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AND SPREAD NORTHWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE FOUR STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG OR POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. HOWEVER...MOST STORMS WILL REMAIN WELL BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN NETWORKS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
316 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
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120 PM WEST MONROE LA WIND DAMAGE
06/04/01 OUACHITA DOWNED TREES AND TREE
LIMBS AS WELL AS TRAFFIC
LIGHTS TETHERED TO HIGH
WIRES. KTVE TV REPORT.
TIME OF EVENT ESTIMATED.The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:31 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The Louisiana Hazmat team extinguished a fire started by a lightning strike, atop a tank containing raw liquid, that gas and diesel fuel are made from.
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, June 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: 5250651.