1 funnel cloud, 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 5, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
1030 AM CDT SUN AUG 5 2001
.NEW...A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT E OF PQL.
...TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM GRAND ISLE TO KPQL INCLUDING
LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS.
LA...TROPICAL STORM LAZ038-040-058-060>064-068>070.
MS....TROPICAL STORM WARNING MSZ080>082.
23LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-061200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CDT SUN AUG 5 2001 ...A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT EAST OF PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI... ...A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA TO PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI... .SYNOPSIS... TROPICAL STORM BARRY WAS LOCATED MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 7 MPH. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO DEEPEN ACROSS THE MID SOUTH AND PULL TROPICAL STORM BARRY NORTH. THE APPROACHING TROUGH WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .COASTAL FLOODING... NORTHEASTERLY WINDS AROUND 20 KNOTS WITH GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE COASTAL WATER ZONES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WILL PRODUCE TIDES GENERALLY 2 FEET ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH TONIGHT. .THUNDERSTORMS... NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. ACTIONS...ALL INTERESTS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE LATEST INFORMATION AND BULLETINS FROM THE TROPICAL PREDICTION CENTER AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SLIDELL ON TROPICAL STORM BARRY. 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 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was observed near the Mississippi and Alabama state line.
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
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: 5264105.