1 flood, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 15, 2:00 PM CST, 6 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 200 PM CST SAT DEC 15 2001 KNQA/KLZK RADARS SHOWING LARGE AREA OF RAIN ACROSS WRN AR WITH ADDITIONAL DEVLEOPMENT ACROSS NRN LA AND NE TX. TEMPS RUNNING IN THE 50S ACROSS THE MID SOUTH W/ DWPTS IN THE L/M 40S. MODELS HAVE HAD THEIR SHARE OF RUN TO RUN INCONSISTENCY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. THE 12Z ETA/NGM HAVE TRENDED TOWARD YDYS AVN SOLUTION W/ ALL THREE MODELS NOW HITTING NE AR/MO BOOTHEEL THE HARDEST W/ THE RAIN OVER THE NEXT 48 HRS. THE UPPER TROUGH ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION THIS AFTN WILL MOVE EWD INTO THE SRN PLAINS ON SUN. AHEAD OF THE TROUGH...GULF MOISTURE WILL RETURN RAPIDLY TO THE REGION TONIGHT ON THE NOSE OF A 40-50 KT LLJ. RAIN SHIELD ACROSS AR ALREADY AHEAD OF MODEL PROGS AND EXPECT RAIN AND SCT TSRA TO OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE REGION BY MRNG. THE LAST TO SEE RAIN WILL BE NE MS WHICH WILL LIKELY HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TMRW AFTN. GIVEN U/L DIVERGENCE...STRONG THTE ADVECTION...AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE SYSTEM...RAIN AMOUNTS COULD BE EXCESSIVE ONCE AGAIN. 1-3 INCHES (WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS NE AR) LOOKS REASONABLE. WILL CONTINUE CURRENT FFA W/ SOME ADJUSTMENT TO TIMING/WORDING IN THE WATCH. AN FFA MAY BE NEEDED FOR TUP FOR SUN NGT...BUT WILL LIKELY DEFER TO THE MID SHIFT FOR THAT. W/ STRONG KINEMATICS AND INCREASING (ALTHOUGH SLIGHT) INSTABILITY... WILL MENTION THUNDER EVERYWHERE FOR SUN/SUN NGT. GIVEN AMOUNT OF FORCING...WE MAY WELL SEE A SQUALL LINE AHEAD THE FRONT SUN NGT. LONGER TERM...EXPECT SLOW CLEARING ON MON W/ WRAPAROUND STRATOCU LIKELY THROUGH AFTN. WILL KEEP CHC RAIN ALL AREAS FOR MON MRNG AND ACROSS NE MS FOR MON AFTN. AFTER THAT...WX LOOKS FAIRLY BENIGN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK. MEM TC 050/061 051/054 036 157++ MKL TC 048/061 052/054 034 157++ JBR TE 047/056 046/050 034 15+++ TUP TR 051/065 057/060 037 1547+ .MEG...FLOOD WATCH NW 2/3RDS OF CWA TNT-SUN. CBD
MSZ003>006-009-013>017-021>024-TNZ091-092-161000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 302 PM CST SAT DEC 15 2001 ..ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN ON THE WAY... ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE MID SOUTH TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME LIKELY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF WEST TENNESSEE ON SUNDAY WHILE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR TO THE NORTHWEST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF WEST TENNESSEE SUNDAY NIGHT WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE BY EARLY MONDAY. THIS ROUND OF RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CREATE RISES IN AREA RIVER LEVELS ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A couple of roads were flooded after the emergency spillway from the Arkabutla Dam overflowed.
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: 5275187.