Flash Flood, Caldwell
- When
- November 29, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Caldwell County, Kelly
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.092, -92.117 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Highway 506 was flooded and impassable in town.
Flash Flood in Louisiana, November 29, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Nov 29, 4:10 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 4:10 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
410 AM CST THU NOV 29 2001
UHHH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH EAST TEXAS LAKES AREA AND CENTRAL LA.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SE OK TO CHEROKEE COUNTY TEXAS /SAME AS
ISSUED EARLIER/. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY FOR
CENTRAL LA ZONES...PRIMANRILY FO RHAIL THREAT WITH VERY COLD TEMPS
ALOFT. ALL THIS DUE TO COLD STORM SYSTEM TO SWEEP THROUGH CWA TODAY.
ITS BEEN THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW...AND ALL I
GOT TO SAY IS AFTER TODAY ITS GONE. COOL AND DRY UNTIL I/LL
INTRODUCE POPS TO DAY 6 AND 7. BACK TO WORK... 17
PRELIMS...
SHV 40/33/62/40/64 7000
MLU 43/33/62/41/64 7000
TXK 39/31/60/39/62 7000
TYR 40/31/63/44/64 6000
LFK 42/33/64/44/66 7000
.SHV...FF WATCH FOR MUCH OF N LA/E TX LAKES AREA TODAY...
...WINTER WX ADVSY FOR SE OK AND PARTS OF NE TX TODAY...The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 132 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:44 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Utah, November 29 to 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in Arizona, November 29, 2001
- High Wind in Tennessee, November 29 to 30, 2001
- Flooding in Kentucky, November 29 to 30, 2001
- High Wind in North Carolina, November 29 to 30, 2001
- Strong Wind in Kentucky, November 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, November 29, 2001
- Dense Fog in North Carolina, November 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, November 29, 2001
- Strong Wind in Illinois, November 29, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, November 29, 2001
- High Wind in North Carolina, November 29 to 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, November 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: 5273163.