Name: Flood in Louisiana, May 7, 2001
Start: 2001-05-07T18:35
End: 2001-05-07T18:35
Location: Louisiana

Where it happened

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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 May 7, 1:25 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 1:25 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
225 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001

LAST OF THE SHORT WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER TROUGH CURRENTLY
LOCATED OVER THE FOUR STATE REGION WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA
TONIGHT. DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING MORE THAN SCATTERED CONVECTION...AND
MUCH OF THE CURRENT INSTABILITY FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH
AFTER SUNSET. SURFACE DEWPOINTS STILL RATHER JUICY SOUTHERN PORTION
OF AREA...BUT MID LEVEL SHEAR IS WEAK AND LOW LEVEL FLOW IS WEAK AND
DISORGANIZED FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT TSTM ACTIVITY. THIS AREA HOWEVER
IS STILL UNDER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WHICH SHOULD HELP MOVE ACTIVITY
DEVELOPING IN THE JUICY AIRMASS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ZONES.

WEAK CONVERGENCE AREA WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN MOST ZONES ON
TUESDAY...THEN AFTER THIS...MODELS AGREE ON DRYING OUT. TEMPS WILL
BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMAL WITH FAIRLY WEAK NORTHERLY FLOW SETTING UP
ALOFT. SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL RETURN AND DOMINATE IN THE LOW LEVELS...
BUT SHOULD REMAIN RATHER WEAK. MRF MOS THROWS IN 20 AND 30 POPS
TOWARD THE WEEKEND...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF FORECAST...AS THIS BARELY
SEASON NORMAL NUMBERS WITH NO FEATURES SURFACE OR ALOFT TO FOCUS
PRECIP ON.

SHV 62/81/58/82 2111
MLU 62/81/57/81 2111
TXK 61/80/58/80 3111
TYR 61/81/59/82 3111
LFK 62/83/60/83 3211

.SHV...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 6:35 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
735 PM CDT MON MAY 07 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0431 PM    LONESTAR                  TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/01   MORRIS                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0630 PM    1 W BULLARD               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/01   SMITH                          DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER NEAR
                                          TEASELVILLE.

0635 PM    2 NE BENTON               LA   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/07/01   BOSSIER                        HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES TO
                                          QUARTERS ALONG THE NORTHERN
                                          END OF THE CYPRESS BAYOU
                                          RESERVOIR. REPORTED BY LOCAL
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0735 PM    SHREVEPORT                LA   FLOODING
05/07/01   CADDO                          NUMEROUS REPORTS OFA URBAN
                                          FLOODING INSIDE THE CITY.
                                          REPORT FROM LOCAL LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Caddo

When: May 7, 6:35 PM CST
Where: Caddo County, Shreveport
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 32.580, -93.882 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Numerous reports of urban flooding inside the city.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Louisiana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, May 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: 5241152.