2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Nov 23, 11:15 PM CST, 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1115 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001 UPDATED PACKAGE JUST SENT OUT TO TAKE OUT TORNADO WATCH WHICH EXPIRED AT 1100 PM. NEW WATCH ISSUED UNTIL 3 AM FOR COUNTIES IN SW AR IN CWFA. SEVERE MENTION ALREADY IN ZONES WILL COVER THIS NEW WATCH. RAISED POPS TO COVER SPREAD OF TSTMS AHEAD OF SQUALL LINE AND SQUALL LINE ITSELF. ALSO ADJUSTED CLOUD COVER AND WINDS AS PER TIMING OF LINE. TEMPERATURES FALLING NICELY AS SQUALL LINE PASSES...ZONES COVER THIS ALREADY. 20 .SHV...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
945 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001
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925 PM VALLIANT OK WIND DAMAGE
11/23/01 MCCURTAIN RAILROAD CROSSARM BLOWN OVER
INTO DITCH
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
15PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1117 PM CST FRI NOV 23 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
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1015 PM GILLHAM AR .88 INCH HAIL
11/23/01 SEVIER HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS.
FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT.
NNNNThe Shreveport radar (KSHV), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:36 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
One chicken house, one mobile home, and a carport were damaged. The tornado tube moved across the western end of the chicken house. This tornado moved into Ouachita Parish, LA.
Several small trees and numerous branches were broken. This tornado continued from Jackson Parish, LA.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 2001Warnings in Louisiana, November 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: 5272983, 5272984.