1 flood, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 2:37 PM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
237 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001
VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE MOVING OUT OF TX THIS EVENING WITH ASSOCD SFC
LOW DEVELOPING OVR THE NW GULF AND MOVING ALONG THE STATIONARY
FRONT OVR NE MS. RAIN CURRENTLY SPREADING ACRS N MS AND WL CONT
TO PUSH NWD WILL CONT TO AGGRAVATE FLOODING SITUATION ACRS THE MID
SOUTH. MODELS SIMILAR ON LOW TRACK AND EXPECT IT TO TRACK ACRS NE
MS TO THE TN RIVER AND INTO SRN KY BY 12Z. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF
RAIN ACRS THE AREA WITH HIER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE ACRS NE MS WHERE
TRAINING MAY OCCUR WITH TSTMS IN THE WARM SECTOR. DRY SLOT MAY
OCCUR AFT MIDNIGHT SHUTTING OFF PRECIP FROM NW MS INTO W TN. LOWS WL
VARY WIDELY FROM NEAR 60 ACRS EXTREME SE PARTS OF THE CWFA TO THE LOW
40S EXTREME NW. ADDED A CAT OR SO TO THE WARMER MAVS.
EXPECT CLOUDS TO DECREASE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS THE SFC LOW RACES
NEWD AND WEAK HI PRES BUILDS IN. DO NOT EXPECT MUCH RECOVERY IN
TEMPS TOMORROW WITH ERN SXNS HAVING THEIR MAX TEMPS AT 12Z. WEAK
HI PRES AND LIGHT WINDS WL ALLOW TEMPS TO DROP INTO THE UPPER 30S
MOST PLACES FRI NIGHT. ALSO...LOOKS LIKE THERE IS SOME FOG POTENTIAL
EARLY SAT MORNING THANKS TO ALL THE WATER AROUND.
NEXT SYSTEM MOVING OUT THE ROCKIES ON SAT. MODERATE ISENTROPIC LIFT
ALREADY UNDERWAY SAT AFTN AND WL INTRODUCE A CHC OF RAIN FOR WRN
SXNS OF THE CWFA. STRONG SYSTEM WL MOVE ACRS THE CWFA LATE SAT
NIGHT/EARLY SUN WITH SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. CLEARING LATER ON
SUNDAY AND TURNING MUCH COOLER.
EXTENDED...DRY AND COOL MON AND TUE. ANOTHER FRONT WITH A CHANCE OF
RAIN WED AND COOLER THU.
.MEG...FLOOD WATCH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
WEST TENNESSEE AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS.
SJMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A couple of roads in the county were flooded.
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, December 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: 5276403.