1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 2:00 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 300 PM CDT MON AUG 13 2001 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CANCELED FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FINALLY...SOME RELIEF IN STORE FROM THE WET PATTERN EXPERIENCED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. UPPER LEVEL ENERGY WHICH HAD DOMINATED OUR WX PATTERN PREVIOUSLY LOOKS TO HAVE SHIFTED EASTWARD BACK TOWARDS SW LOUISIANA. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE SOUTHERN PARISHES...MOST OF THE CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACROSS THE CWA/PWA MORE ON THE LINE OF A SUMMERTIME REGIME PATTERN. THIS WOULD LIKELY INHIBIT ANY WIDESPREAD PRECIP COVERAGE AND SUBSEQUENT FLOODING PROBLEMS. THEREFORE...WILL DROP FFA FROM THIS AFTERNOON/S PACKAGE CONSISTENT WITH JAN AND MOB. LOOKING PAST TONIGHT...A WEAK SFC TROF IS FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION TUESDAY WHICH WOULD JUSTIFY SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES BEFORE THE TROF WASHES OUT ON WEDNESDAY. IN ADDITION...FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE PW/S DROPPING BELOW TWO INCHES STARTING TONIGHT WITH CONSIDERABLY DRIER MID AND UPPER LEVEL AIR WORKING ITS WAY INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI AS INDICATED BY FORECAST TIME HEIGHTS. THIS CONSISTENT WITH THE AVN SOLUTION BRINGING THE SW RIDGE EASTWARD INTO THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION AND PERSISTING THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WOULD THEN IMPLY MORE OF A SEASONAL FORECAST FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS WITH MAINLY AFTERNOON SCT CONVECTION THE ONLY REAL CONCERN. NEXT GOOD SHOT AT RAIN PROGGED FOR FRIDAY AS ANOTHER TROF OUT OF THE CENTRAL SECTIONS DROPS INTO THE SOUTHEAST STATES ON FRIDAY. WILL STAY CONSISTENT PAST FRIDAY WITH A CHANCE FOR RAIN EACH DAY THROUGH MONDAY. THX FOR QUICK COORD JAN...PRELIM NUMBERS... MCB 070/091/070/093 3302 BTR 072/090/072/093 3402 MSY 075/090/075/092 4513 GPT 074/088/073/089 4513 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 09
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1015 AM MON SUN AUG 13 2001 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. .SYNOPSIS... A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL PERSIST ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THROUGH TONIGHT AS ANOTHER UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE DROPS INTO THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION LATER TODAY. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THOUGH ARE NOT EXPECTED. .FLOODING... LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IN URBAN AND LOW LYING AREAS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. RAINFALL RATES AROUND TWO INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS APPROACHING FOUR INCHES PER HOUR AROUND THE HEAVIER RAINS. RIVER AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY ALSO BE A PROBLEM IF HEAVY RAINFALL BECOMES WIDESPREAD. .ACTIONS... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR AREAS WHERE DRAINAGE IS SLOW AND LOCALIZED FLOODING OFTEN OCCURS. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER ACTIONS SHOULD BE NECESSARY AT THIS TIME. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS...HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LETTERS SHOULD BE LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado touched down briefly knocking down a few trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 2001Warnings in Mississippi, August 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: 5264098.