1 flash flood, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 1, 9:10 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 910 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001 FLOOD POTENTIAL CONTINUES TO BE THE MAIN THREAT ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. LOOKING AT RADAR TRENDS THE HEAVIER PRECIPITATION IS SHIFTING TO THE EAST WITH NEW CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO THE EXTREME SOUTHERN COUNTIES IN TEXAS AND SOUTHERN PARISHES IN LOUISIANA OF THE FORECAST AREA. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SEVERAL PARISHES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA WITH SEVERAL ROADS WITH WATER OVER THEM. SOME MODERATE RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED UP TO NORTH LOUISIANA TO NEAR INTERSTATE 20. TEMPERATURES RUNNING A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN ORIGINALLY FORECAST ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA SO WILL LOWER MINIMUMS THERE. WILL CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND MID SHIFT WILL PROBABLY EXTEND IT THROUGH FRIDAY. 09 .SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR LAZ001>006-d010>014-017>022- TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167 FOR TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1011 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM BELMONT LA FLOODING
03/01/01 SABINE HIGHWAY 175 TWO MILES
SOUTH OF BELMONT CLOSED
DUE TO FLOODING.
0620 PM CONVERSE LA FLOODING
03/01/01 SABINE HIGHWAY 171 THREE MILES
NORTH OF CONVERSE CLOSED
DUE TO FLOODING.
0625 PM ZWOLLE LA FLOODING
03/01/01 SABINE HIGHWAY 171 NEAR THE POST
OFFICE IN ZWOLLE CLOSED
DUE TO FLOODING.
0630 PM NATCHITOCHES LA FLOODING
03/01/01 NATCHITOCHES COUNTY ROAD 1724 TEN MILES
SOUTH OF NATCHITOCHES WAS
CLOSED FOR A SHORT TIME
DUE TO WATER ON THE ROAD.
0830 PM JENA LA FLOODING
03/01/01 LA SALLE HIGHWAY 84 IN JENA CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER. IN
ADDITION...VARIOUS OTHER
ROADS AND HIGHWAYS IN
COUNTY EITHER CLOSED OR
UNDER STANDING WATER.
0845 PM GRAYSON LA FLOODING
03/01/01 CALDWELL HIGHWAY 126 TWO MILES
SOUTH OF GRAYSON CLOSED
DUE TO HIGH WATER.
0850 PM COLUMBIA LA FLOODING
03/01/01 CALDWELL COUNTY ROAD 846 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
0940 PM 2 W SPEARSVILLE LA FLOODING
03/01/01 UNION STATE HIGHWAY 15 BETWEEN
167 AND SPEARSVILLE AT
CORNY BAYOU.
0950 PM 5 W DUBACH LA FLOODING
03/01/01 LINCOLN THREE FEET OF WATER OVER
MAYS CROSSING ROAD. OTHER
ROADS FLOODED INCLUDE
( FLOWERS AND DELLA ROADS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1049 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM 10 SW MONROE LA FLOODING
03/01/01 OUACHITA SEVERAL ROADS IN THE AREA
UNDER WATER.The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads in and near town were underwater and closed from rapid and heavy rains.
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, March 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: 5235021.