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 Feb 9, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 220 PM CST FRI FEB 9 2001 POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. SQLN DEVELOPING WITH INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI MAINLY ACROSS NORTH HALF OF THE CWA....BUT NOT RULING OUT AREA FURTHER SOUTH. MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT. HOWEVER WILL LIKELY GO WITH THE ETA FOR THE FIRST 60 HOURS AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AVN FOR THE NEST 60 HOURS. WILL BASICALLY HAVE THE FRONT MOVE THROUGH THE CWA BY MIDNIGHT WITH PCPN DECREASING AFTER MIDNIGHT. FRONT WILL STALL NEAR THE COAST SAT WITH OVRNG CONDS BGNG ALONG AND JUST N OF THE FNT SAT AND WILL KEEP SLGT CHC RAIN SRN PTN CWA SAT INCREASING SAT NIGHT AND SUN AND MAINTAINING A THREAT OF PCPN THROUGH NEST FRI AS FRONT MOVES N AS A WARMFNT ACRS THE CWA ERLY NEXT WK AND COLD FRONT MOVG THRU CWA NEXT FRI. HAVE MODIFIED THE TEMPS BASICALLY DUE TO EXPECTED CLOUD COVER. DO NOT QPF TO BE A PROBLEM AS CELLS AND SYS WILL BE MOVING RAPIDLY AND DO NOT EXPECT TRAINING. ADNLY...ALSO EXPECT SEVER THREAT TO BE LIMITED MAINLY TO REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND POSSIBLY EARLY TONIGHT. SFC WINDS WILL REMAIN STG AHEAD AND BEHIND THE CDFNT. THEREFORE WILL CONT SCA BEHIND THE FNT AND INCLUDE LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS. MAY HANDLE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER BY ISSUING THE ZONES AN HOUR EARLY...330 PM...AND INCLUDE THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AS THE FIRST PD. ENOUGH SAID...GETTING READY FOR SVR WX THREAT. MCB BR 035/053 040/051 048 17612 BTR BR 040/054 042/051 047 17612 MSY CR 048/054 048/057 052 17723 GPT CR 049/056 046/057 057 17723 .NEW...SCA PQL TO ATCHAFALYA RVR INCLUDING LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS. .LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 17
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-091800- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1030 AM CST FRI FEB 9 2001 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AROUND MID AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE MAINLY OVER THE AREA NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN WITH THE GREATEST THREAT BEING WIND DAMAGE DUE TO STRONG WINMDS. 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 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a building and blew down several trees in the community of Friendship.
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, February 2001
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