1 waterspout, 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 Aug 27, 1:00 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 200 PM CDT MON AUG 27 2001 MODELS INDICATE A WET FORECAST. THE 500 MILLIBAR RIDGE WILL EXTEND EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GULF THROUGH SATURDAY. THE 500 LOW OVER WEST TEXAS WILL BEGIN TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEAKEN AS IT MOVES INTO THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ON FRIDAY. A SERIES OF WEAK TROUGHS AT 500 MILLIBARS WILL MOVE EAST TO NORTHEAST ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. MODELS INDICATE GOOD POSITIVE OMEGA ON TUESDAY WITH A WEAKER MAXIMUM ON WEDNESDAY. PRECIPITABLE WATER THIS MORNING OF 1.8 WILL INCREASE TO OVER 2 INCHES AS MOISTURE FROM THE DISTURBANCE OVER THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE GULF SPREADS NORTHEAST OVER THE AREA. EXPECT CONVECTION TO INCREASE FROM LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON THEN DECREASE DURING THE EVENING HOURS. MODELS SHOW DRYER AIR MOVING ACROSS THE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY INTO FRIDAY THEN BECOMING VERY MOIST AGAIN ON SATURDAY. GUIDANCE POPS LOOK REASONABLE AND WILL MAKE ONLY SMALL CHANGES. MCB 71/90/70/89 4645 BTR 73/89/73/89 4645 MSY 75/89/74/89 3635 GPT 75/89/75/88 3634 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 23
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
A waterspout was observed by law enforcement officials just off the coast of southwest Harrison County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2001
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