Name: Flooding in Louisiana, March 1 to 25, 2001
Start: 2001-03-01T00:00
End: 2001-03-25T21:00
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 Feb 28, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
910 PM CST WED FEB 28 2001

ELEVATED CONVECTION IN LARGE RAIN AREA STILL OCCURRING ACROSS NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS INTO SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA WITH WARM AIR ADVECTION
PATTERN ABOVE SHALLOW COLD AIR AT THE SURFACE. THIS PRECIPITATION IS
STEADILY MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREA. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED DURING THE LAST HOUR ACROSS EAST TEXAS FROM
LUFKIN TO TYLER...AND THIS AREA WAS MOVING ACROSS SHREVEPORT. WILL
HAVE TO INCREASE RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE WEST. WITH GROUND SATURATED
FROM EARLIER RAINS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR THE
REMAINDER OF TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. A THUNDERSTORM OVER SHV JUST
PRODUCED ALMOST A HALF INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR. FLASH
FLOOD GUIDANCE RANGES FROM 0.70 TO 1.3 INCHES ACROSS THE AREA. WITH
STRONGER SHORTWAVE APPROACHING CWA LATE TONIGHT HEAVIER RAINFALL
WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVIEST RAINFALL TOTALS THE PAST 36 HOURS WERE
ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...AS WELL AS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND NORTH
LOUISIANA GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20.

09

.SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES REMAINDER OF TONIGHT THROUGH
THURSDAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 28, 11:05 PM CST, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1105 PM CST WED FEB 28 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 PM    5 NE PROVENCAL             LA  1 INCH HAIL
02/28/01   NATCHITOCHES                   REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

1030 PM    SHREVEPORT                 LA  FLOODING ON INTERSTATE 20
02/28/01                                  EASTBOUND AT MONKHOUSE
                                          DRIVE...INCLUDING ON RAMP.
                                          FLOODING ON NORTH COMMON
                                          STREET NEAR THE RAILROAD
                                          BRIDGE. FLOODING AT
                                          INTERSECTION OF LINE
                                          AVENUE AND PIERREMONT.
                                          FLOODING AT INTERSECTION
                                          OF GILBERT AND EAST
                                          TOPEKA. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

09

The radar

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Event by event

3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Bossier

When: March 1, 12:00 AM CST to March 25, 9:00 PM CST
Where: Bossier forecast zone
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.679, -93.605 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rainfall throughout the early portion of March led to some of the highest water levels on Lake Bistineau and Bayou Dorcheat since 1997 and 1991. Up to two dozen homes were flooded including all camps and campgrounds which had to be evacuated. Bayou Dorcheat at Dixie Inn crested at 22.2 feet on March 4th. Flood state is 14 feet. Lake Bistineau crested at 147.1 feet on March 5th and 6th. Flood stage is 142.5 feet. Dollar figures were not available.

Flood, Webster

When: March 1, 12:00 AM CST to March 25, 9:00 PM CST
Where: Webster forecast zone
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.714, -93.335 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rainfall throughout the early portion of March led to some of the highest water levels on Lake Bistineau and Bayou Dorcheat since 1997 and 1991. Up to two dozen homes were flooded including all camps and campgrounds which had to be evacuated. Bayou Dorcheat at Dixie Inn crested at 22.2 feet on March 4th. Flood state is 14 feet. Lake Bistineau crested at 147.1 feet on March 5th and 6th. Flood stage is 142.5 feet. Dollar figures were not available.

Flood, Bienville

When: March 1, 12:00 AM CST to March 25, 9:00 PM CST
Where: Bienville forecast zone
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.347, -93.056 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rainfall throughout the early portion of March led to some of the highest water levels on Lake Bistineau and Bayou Dorcheat since 1997 and 1991. Up to two dozen homes were flooded including all camps and campgrounds which had to be evacuated. Bayou Dorcheat at Dixie Inn crested at 22.2 feet on March 4th. Flood state is 14 feet. Lake Bistineau crested at 147.1 feet on March 5th and 6th. Flood stage is 142.5 feet. Dollar figures were not available.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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, March 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5235133, 5235134, 5235135.