2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 1:00 PM CST, 9 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 200 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2001 WEAK HIGH PRESSURE/MID LEVEL SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF DEPARTING ALLISON REMNANTS SHOULD CONTROL LOCAL WEATHER FOR ANOTHER DAY OR SO. A GRADUAL RETURN OF BETTER TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL BEGIN WEDNESDAY WITH SOME POTENTIAL FOR DIURNAL TSRA...MAINLY W AND S. MODELS NOT TOO IMPRESSED WITH INSTABILITY AS YET WITH CAPES OF 2000-2500J/KG DRIVEN NWD WITH A SEA BREEZE LATE IN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. BY THURSDAY...THE VALUES APPROACH 3000-3500J/KG IN WRN PORTIONS WITH K INDEXES EXCEEDING 30 ONCE AGAIN. A MORE ACTIVE SEA BREEZE SHOULD BE THE DETERMINING FACTOR FOR THURSDAY. ADDED SUNSHINE WILL BRING SLIGHTLY WARMER DAYTIME TEMPS BUT GENERALLY NEAR CLIMATOLOGY FOR MID JUNE. MOS NUMBERS VERY CLOSE AND WILL NOT STRAY EXCEPT TO LEAN TOWARD NGM POPS. IN THE EXTENDED...FRONTAL BOUNDARY STILL FORECAST TO APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LATE FRIDAY AND CROSS MUCH OF THE CWFA FRIDAY NIGHT. A SQUALL LINE COULD BE THE MAIN FEATURE OF THIS FRONT AS IT CONTINUES SWD ON SATURDAY UNDER NWLY FLOW ALOFT. EXACT TIMING OF THE DETAILS WILL HAVE TO FINE-TUNED LATER. THEN...MEDIUM RANGE ENSEMBLE DATA ALL SUPPORTING A MAJOR SUMMER MID-UPPER ANTICYCLONE PARKING OUT IN THE SRN PLAINS SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THIS FEATURE WILL DOMINATE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK AND SETTLE ANY DYING FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO THE COASTAL WATERS. PRELIM NUMBERS JAN 71/91/71/90/72 01-21 MEI 69/91/69/91/70 01-21 .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE.
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:57 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A narrow band of persistent and intense rainfall caused flooding in the city of Petal. Water entered several homes, and numerous streets were flooded.
A narrow band of persistent, intense rainfall caused streets to be flooded in Sumrall, including Main Street and Highway 44. Water entered City Hall. Water also entered about five businesses downtown and at least three homes were flooded.
A brief period of golfball size hail caused minor damage to roofs of buildings and cars.
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, June 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: 5250580, 5250581, 5250582.