1 thunderstorm wind, 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 12, 2:45 AM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 245 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001 MODELS ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE NEXT COUPLE OF SYSTEMS TO AFFECT OUR AREA...THIS MORNING AND WED NIGHT INTO THU. LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED THIS MORNING OVER CENTRAL TEXAS...ALONG THE NOSE OF THE MID/UPR LEVEL DRY PUNCH. THE 06Z ETA PICKED UP ON THIS DEVELOPMENT PRETTY WELL...AND CARRIES 1/2 INCH OR BETTER QPF ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWFA. HIGH POPS LOOK LIKE A GOOD BET FOR TODAY...WITH CLEARING BY LATE IN THE DAY. DRY CONDITIONS WILL SETTLE OVER THE AREA FOR TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH THE NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHING WED NIGHT. ETA AND AVN ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON THE POSITIONING OF THIS SYSTEM AT 60 HRS...SO THERE IS PRETTY HIGH CONFIDENCE FOR UNSETTLED WEATHER MID TO LATE WEEK. ALL AVAILABLE TEMP GUIDANCE INDICATES SOME VERY MILD TEMPERATURES THROUGH THIS PERIOD. WILL STICK VERY NEAR FWC/MAV GUIDAaNCE THRU THE PERIOD. 05 PRELIMS... SHV 76/47/73/45 8000 MLU 76/48/72/45 8200 TXK 73/45/70/43 8000 TYR 75/45/73/46 4000 LFK 78/47/76/47 6000 .SHV...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A man was killed when a tree was blown over on a vehicle on LA 482 5 west of Zwolle.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind, Sabine | 2001-03-12 | 28 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5235010.