1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 8, 2:15 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 215 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001 TIS ANOTHER INTERESTING FORECAST. IN THE SHORT TERM...PRECIP AND PUSH OF BOUNDARY LOOKS TO BE MAIN PROBLEMS. IN THE EXTENDED...TIMING AND EXTENT OF RAIN LOOKS TO BE MAIN PROBLEMS OVER THE CONUS AND SURROUNDING AREAS...MORNING UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWS CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION...WITH OTHERS OVER NM...AND OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST LINE(AT BASE OF TROUGH RUNNING INTO THE ARCTIC). OTHER SHORTWAVES DANCING AROUND IN UPPER FLOW OVER NORTH PACIFIC AND CANADA...HELPING TO MAKE FOR AN ACTIVE PATTERN NORTH OF 40 DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE. IN THE LOWER LEVELS...LOW LEVEL FLOW SWITCHING OVER TO SOUTHEASTLERY AS I WRITE AHEAD OF LOW LEVEL LOW OVER NM/TX BORDER WITH SURFACE COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE BIG BEND REGION...AND MIXED BOUNDARY RUNNING TO NEAR KMEM TO NEAR KCLE...THEN INTO LOW OVER NORTHERN REGIONS OF THE GREAT LAKES. PRECIP H20 AMOUNTS OVER LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY IN THE 0.50 - 0.65 RANGE (60% - 90% OF NORM). ETA/NGM/AVN IN CLOSE AGREEMENT IN THE SHORT TERM IN MOVING UPPER LOW ALONG GULF COAST...WITH UPPER LOW AXIS ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR KHEZ BY F24/FRI MORN. MODEL START TO DIVERGE A BIT IN TAKING UPPER PACIFIC NORTHWEST LOW INTO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST BY THE END OF THE EXTENDED...BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS SMALL AND CAN BE EXPLAINED BY MODEL SLOP. A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY ON BOUNDARY POSITION THROUGH F30/FRI NOON...BUT THIS IS RECTIFIED AS SYSTEM PASSES THROUGH...AND PUSHES FRONT INTO GULF. AM HOLDING TSRA MENTION TO AREAS ALONG THE HIGHWAY 84 CORRIDOR AND POINTS SOUTH TONIGHT ( SOUTH OF SPC AREA SOUTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF FA). REASONING IS AS SHORTWAVE DIVES SOUTH OF GREAT LAKES LOW...WARM SECTOR AND SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL BE A BIT FARTHER SOUTH THAN SPC THINKING( AFTER LOOKING AT MODEL SOUNDINGS OVER FA ). ANY CHANCES FOR PRECIP LOOK TO EAST OF FA BY END OF DAY FRI. CLOUDS SLOWER TO MOVE IN THAN MOS NUMBER SUGGEST...SO END OF TODAY LOOKING TO START WARMER THAN MOS NUMBER SUGGEST. WILL TAKE MOS NUMBERS UP FOR TONIGHT. POPS...WILL OF COURSE GO BEST CHANCES SOUTHWEST TONIGHT(CATEGORICAL) TAPERING TO CHANCE NORTHEAST. CHANCES FOR PRECIP STILL LOOK INTO FRIDAY DAYTIME...ESPECIALLY SOUTH WILL WILL KEEP LIKELY WORDING IN FOR SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF FA(MAINLY MORNING WEST)...TAPERING TO CHANCES CENTRAL...SLIGHT CHANCE NORTH. FRIDAY NIGHT WILL SEE DRIER...AND A BIT COOLER AIR MOVING INTO THE FA... WITH A COMBO OF NGM/AVN NUMBERS GOOD...UP A BIT SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL. SATURDAY LOOKS TO BE MOSTLY SUNNY...BUT FEEL DRIER AIR WILL OVER RULE SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR(MEAN UPPER RIDGE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CONUS ALSO HELPS)...WITH TEMPS ABOVE FRIDAY/S. SATURDAY NIGHT...WILL LEAN TOWARDS COOLER MAV NUMBERS...AS DRIER AIR STILL LOOKS TO BE MOSTLY IN PLACE ( RETURN FLOW STARTING BACK LATE SATURDAY. QPF DISCUSSION...SEE LITTLE REASON TO DISAGREE WITH HPC TIMING/AMOUNTS OF PRECIP FOR 00Z/FRI - 00Z/SAT. BEST QPF AMOUNTS LOOK TO BE SOUTH OF FA...WITH NORTHERN-MOST REACHES OF MEASURABLE PRECIP NEAR HIGHWAY 82 CORRIDOR. IN THE EXTENDED...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS MOVE SOUTHWESTERN SYSTEM EAST AS STRONG SHORTWAVE DIVES INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS LATE SATURDAY...WITH ANOTHER..LESS POTENT ONE ON ITS HEELS FOR SUNDAY DAYTIME. THIS AS SHORTWAVE FROM SOUTHWESTERN SYSTEM MOVES/GETS DRAWN EAST. WITH CHANCES FOR PRECIP BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY SOUTHWEST. PROBLEMS START ARISING WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE MRF/AVN/NOGAPS /CANADIAN ENSEMBLES. OPERATIONAL RUNS OF SAID MODELS TEND TO BE IN THE FRONT OF THE PACK...TIMING WISE...WITH AN ECMWF SOLUTION LOOKING MORE PROBABLE. SOUTHERN END MEANDERS AROUND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST...THEN GETS PULLED EAST BEHIND YET ANOTHER SHORTWAVE SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TUESDAY. GULF COAST DEFORMATION ZONE LOOKS TO BE ENHANCED AS SURFACE SYSTEM FORMS OVER WEST TX...THEN HEADS NORTHEAST LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. WHERE THIS ZONE IS WILL DICTATE WHERE CHANCES OF POPS ARE...ESPECIALLY WITH STRETCHED UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ALONG GULF COAST LATE TUESDAY INTO FRIDAY. AM LEANING TOWARD SLOWER ECMWF SOLUTION FOR NOW...WITH CHANCES FOR PRECIP MOST OF NEXT WEEK...ESPECIALLY SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF FA. LEAST CHANCE LOOKS TO BE WEDNESDAY...BETWEEN BETTER SHORTWAVES. PRELIM NUMBERS... JAN 049/060 032/066 042 84000 MEI 048/060 030/067 040 65-00 .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. 16
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072> 074-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 200 PM CST THU MAR 08 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 84. WHERE THE THUNDERSTORMS MANAGE TO DEVELOP...THEY WILL NOT BE SEVERE. A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS EXTREME NORTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON WILL SLOWLY SINK SOUTH...AT THE SAME TIME AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST. THIS WILL CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIER TO BECOME SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT. FOR MORE I2NFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rising waters around Lake Louis after previous week-end rains caused significant flooding of property around the lake with water in several homes.
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: 5238658.