1 thunderstorm wind, 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 245 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO LIFT SLOWLY NWD OVER GULF COAST REGION THIS AFTN AS INDICATED BY DEWPT ANALYSIS. LATEST RADAR IMAGERY INDICATED A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE HAS DEVELOPED THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THIS MRNG. THUS TSTM DEVELOPMENT IS UNLIKELY REMAINDER OF TODAY. HOWEVER WIDELY SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA MAY DEVELOP IN NRN/CNTL LA AND CNTRL MS TONIGHT AND DRIFT SWD INTO SWRN MS OVERNIGHT. SO WILL LEAVE POPS IN FOR THAT SEC. WILL LEAN MORE ON ETA MODEL WHICH APPEARS TO BE DRIER IN MEAN RH NEXT 60 HOURS. A LITTLE STRONGER S/W TROF FCST TO MOVE SEWD INTO THE LOWER MS VALLEY LATE IN THE WEEK AND POSSIBLY BRING AN INCREASED THREAT OF SCTD TSRA. IN THE MEAN-TIME NOT MUCH AREAL COVERAGE OF SHOWERS LIKELY. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT MAY ACCOMPANY THE DISTURBANCE ALOFT AND PASS SEWD THROUGH THE REGION BY NEXT WEEKEND. MCB 63/87/65/87 2312 BTR 67/87/69/88 1212 MSY 68/88/71/88 1212 GPT 67/85/69/85 1212 .NEW...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 05
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and large tree limbs were blown down in several location in the parish. A fallen tree caused minor structural damage to a house in Franklinton.
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