Flash Flood, La Salle
- When
- March 2, 3:30 AM CST
- Where
- La Salle County, Jena
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.677, -92.160 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Highway 84 was closed again for rapid flooding.
Flash Flood in Louisiana, March 2, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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 Mar 2, 3:30 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 3:30 AM CST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 315 AM CST THU MAR 1 2001 THE SHORT TERM FORECAST WILL REMAIN WET THROUGH THE PERIOD CONTINUING TO AGGRAVATE FLOOD PROBLEMS...HOWEVER THE EXTENDING IS GIVING HOPE TO DRY WEATHER NEXT WEEK. THE MODELS INDICATE THAT THE LINGERING UPPER TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN US WILL BEGIN TO PROGRESS EAST TODAY. THIS TROUGH SHOULD BE EAST OF THE AREA BY SUNDAY. HOWEVER RAIN WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH SATURDAY...AS DEEP MOISTURE WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA UNTIL THIS TROUGH PASSES. POPS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY HIGH ACROSS THE AREA AS DEEPNESS OF MOISTURE DOES NOT REQUIRE MUCH LIFT TO GENERATE PRECIPITATION. A WEAK BOUNDARY FROM NEAR A JAN...ESF...TO JUST EAST OF A LCH LINE WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE LOCATED NEAR THIS BOUNDARY THE NEXT FEW DAYS...WITH CONVERGENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY...THIS WILL BE THE LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE EXTENDED TODAY FOR THE I20 CORRIDOR AND SOUTHWARD. ON SUNDAY THE THE MID TO UPPER LEVELS WILL DRY OUT QUICKLY AS THE TROUGH MOVES EAST AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL RETURN BY MONDAY. WILL NOT DEVIATE MUCH FROM FWC. PRELIMS... SHV 55/46/56/41 ++75 MLU 55/48/55/43 ++75 TXK 51/44/51/39 5774 TYR 52/45/52/41 9+74 LFK 54/48/54/42 ++84 ELEVEN .SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022- TXZ124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167 FOR TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 1, 10:11 PM CST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
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.Local storm report, Mar 1, 10:49 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
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.Local storm report, Mar 2, 12:27 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1227 AM CST FRI MAR 02 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 PM POLLOCK LA FLOODING
03/01/01 GRANT FLOODING OF SEVERAL ROADS
NEAR POLLOCK. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
1100 PM DRY PRONG LA FLOODING
03/01/01 GRANT FLOODING OF SEVERAL ROADS
NEAR DRY PRONG. REPORTED
6 BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
09The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Alabama, March 2, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, March 2, 2001
- Waterspout in Florida, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 2, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 2, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5235022.