Mississippi, 2001

Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 22, 2001

June 22, 2001 · NWS LIX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$5,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 22, 9:22 AM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 9:22 AM CST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
1022 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2001

CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS REASONABLE FOR THE TIME BEING. STILL A LOT OF
UNCERTAINTY. THE SQUALL LINE MOVED THROUGH THE CWA THIS MORNING.
HOWEVER...MEAN RH AND PWS WATER STILL ABOVE 1.70 INCH. MODELS
MAINTAIN UVV ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFLUENCE ASSOCIATED WITH JET LEVEL
WINDS. TEMPS AT MID LEVELS STILL COOL...MINUS 10C AT 5H. MAX
AFTERNOON TEMPS STILL EXPECTED TO REACH THE UPPER 80S AND POSSIBLY
LOWER 90S IN A FEW SPOTS. 5H TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED VORT MAX AND VORT
LOBE ALONG THE WESTERN BORDER OF THE CWA AT THIS TIME AND SHOULD BE
THROUGH MOST OF THE CWA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. vANY UPDATES WILL
COME DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS IF NEEDED.

.NEW...NONE
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 9:30 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-231200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1030 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2001

...SYNOPSIS...
A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

...THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AS WELL AS THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS THIS
AFTERNOON AND PERSIST IN THE COASTAL AREAS TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH NO
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT...A FEW OF THE
STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY DOQWNPOURS OF RAIN.

...ACTIONS...
NONE.

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 radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Amite

When
June 22, 2:00 PM CST
Where
Amite County, Crosby
Property damage
$5,000
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
31.283, -91.067

Thunderstorm wind gusts blew over several trees and blew the front porch off of a house.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind
Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

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: 5256246.