1 funnel cloud, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 21, 2:30 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 330 PM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPING OVER LOUISIANA AND EXTREME EAST TEXAS WITH ISOLATED SUPERCELLS. ONE STORM DEVELOPED NEAR NATCHITOCHES AND ANOTHER WEST OF SHREVEPORT. MORE CONCENTRATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND EXTEND SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. STRONG COLD FRONT EXTENDS ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS WEST OF TEXARKANA TO JUST WEST OF SHREVEPORT INTO EAST TEXAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. A FEW SHOWERS ARE OCCURRING NORTH OF THE FRONT WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS WITH PVA AHEAD OF MAIN SHORTWAVE WITH STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS. THE MAIN THREAT THIS EVENING WILL BE ALONG THE COLD FRONT WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IF A LINE CAN DEVELOP AS THE FRONT CROSSES EXTREME EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA. AFTER TONIGHTS RAIN TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOL WITH UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IN THE EAST AND RIDGE IN THE WEST. ANOTHER FRONT DEVELOPS TO THE THE NORTHWEST AS MODELS BRING UPPER LOW INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THURSDAY. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THURSDAY AND THEN MOVE TO THE GULF COAST AND MAY WASH OUT BY SATURDAY. PUT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THURSDAY BUT WILL LEAVE OUT NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN UNTIL SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS MRF SHOWS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING TO THE WEST AND A FRONT SETS UP JUST NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA. 09 PRELIMS... SHV 053/078 052/082 056 3000 MLU 055/076 053/078 054 5000 TXK 049/077 050/080 055 2000 TYR 051/079 051/083 057 0000 LFK 052/080 050/083 056 3000 .SHV...NONE.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-211635- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2001 A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTREME WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS MORNING AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA BY EARLY EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO FORM AND SHOULD INTENSIFY BY EARLY AFTERNOON OVER EAST TEXAS AND NORTH LOUISIANA AS HEATING OCCURS AHEAD OF THE LINE IN THE VERY UNSTABLE ...MOIST AIRMASS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE QUITE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA...AND ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ACTIVITY MAY LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. HAIL AND HIGH WINDS ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS...HOWEVER...A TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT ESPECIALLY WITH ANY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WELL AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR. THE ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN NETWORKS...STORM SPOTTERS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Brief funnel nearly 1/2 way to the ground just east of Monkhouse Drive north of I-20.
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, May 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: 5241163.