1 thunderstorm wind, 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 7, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 325 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2001 INCREASING HEIGHTS/ANTICYCLONIC FLOW IN THE MID/UPPER LEVELS DUE TO A BUILDING RIDGE DID NOT HAMPER CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT TODAY. WITH A TROPICAL AIRMASS IN PLACE/ PRECIPITABLE WATER IN THE 2.1 TO 2.3 RANGE/ AND A FAVORABLE SW WIND PROFILE IN THE LOW TO MID LEVELS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SCATTERED TO LOCALLY NUMEROUS MOST OF THE DAY. MODERATE MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY HAS PRODUCED A FAIRLY WIDESPREAD AREA WITH MEASURABLE RAIN ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THE SURFACE PATTERN ALONG THE GULF COAST IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BASICALLY THE SAME THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH A RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING FROM THE ATLANTIC ACROSS FL INTO THE N GULF. AT 500 MB...A FLAT RIDGE SHOULD BUILD ALONG THE N GULF COAST...BETWEEN WESTERLIES TO THE NORTH AND EASTERLIES TO THE SOUTH. THE BIG CHANGES OCCUR IN MORE NORTHERN LATITUDES WITH AN UPPER HIGH/RIDGE BUILDING ACROSS THE ROCKIES WITH A DEEP LOW/TROUGH FROM SE CANADA INTO THE MID ATLANTIC STATES. FOR THE DETAILS OF THE FORECAST...WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK TRENDS IN PRECIPITABLE WATER AND LOW/MID LEVEL WIND DIRECTION FOR TEMPS/ POPS. SOME MINOR DRYING MAY OCCUR ON WED IN THE MID LEVELS WITH MORE WESTERLY WINDS...HOWEVER...THE ETA/AVN LOOK BETTER MAINTAINING PW IN THE 2.0 TO 2.1 INCH RANGE...SO WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS. NOTE...THE NGM HAD A BIG BUST YESTERDAY WITH ITS 40 PERCENT POPS FOR TODAY. WILL GO WITH THE TRENDS OF THE AVN/NGM MOS ON THU WITH NEAR NORMAL 40 PERCENT DAYTIME POPS AS THE LAYER FROM 800 TO 700 MB DRIES SLIGHTLY WITH WEST WINDS IN MODEL SOUNDINGS. IN THE EXTENDED...THE AMPLIFIED UPPER PATTERN MAY SEND A COLD FRONT INTO PORTIONS OF THE DEEP SOUTH...MOST LIKELY NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA ON SUN INTO MON. MOISTURE POOLING SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY COMBINED WITH A CONTINUED SEA BREEZE SHOULD MAINTAIN SCATTERED COVERAGE MAINLY DAYTIME OR AFTERNOON CONVECTION. TEMPS SHOULD BE FAIRLY CLOSE TO NORMAL. MCB 73/90/73/91 2624 BTR 75/89/75/91 2624 MSY 77/90/76/91 2624 GPT 75/89/74/90 2624 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 22
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-081200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1030 AM CDT TUE AUG 7 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A MOIST AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ENTRENCHED ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THROUGH TONIGHT. DAYTIME SURFACE HEATING WILL INCREASE THE INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...THEN DIMINISH OVER MOST LAND AREAS DURING THE EVENING. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR WHICH WILL LIMIT THE RAINFALL POTENTIAL. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN AN HOUR OR LESS WILL BE POSSIBLE WHERE BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN BECOME ORIENTED FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST. IN ADDITION...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 MILES PER HOUR WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .ACTIONS... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. 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).
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS, LA
405 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 2001
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1240 PM 2 SW PASCAGOULA MS WATERSPOUT
08/07/01 JACKSON ROOFING MATERIAL BLOWN OFF
FIRE STATION AT NAVAL
STATION. POWER LINE DOWNED
AND SEVERAL CARS DAMAGED.
REPORT FROM NAVAL STATION
AND CIVIL DEFENSE.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds ripped off the tin roof of a shed and caused minor damage to a mobile home near the Harrison and Hancock county 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: 5264110.