1 flash 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001 UPPER LOW PERSISTS OVER SE TX. NEXT IN SERIES OF VORT LOBES TO PIVOT AROUND SYSTEM ACROSS SRN MS TONIGHT...PUSHING INTO CENTRAL MS BY 12Z SATURDAY. THIS ACCOMPANIED BY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN VERTICAL MOTION FIELD AS DEEP MOISTURE FIELD CONTINUES. PRECIPITABLE WATER 2+ INCHES SRN HALF OF FORECAST AREA. ETA DEVELOPS 850 MB WARMFRONT NEAR LINE FROM VICKSBURG TO COLUMBUS. VORT LOBE PERSISTS ACROSS CENTRAL ZONES SATURDAY...DROPPING SLOWLY SWD...SITTING OVER SRN ZONES BY SUNDAY. WIND FLOW SUGGESTS MID LEVEL DYNAMICS NEGLIGIBLE. HOWEVER GOOD LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE/VERTICAL MOTION FIELD FORECAST OVER SRN HALF OF FORECAST AREA TOMORROW. UPPER LEVEL CONVERGENCE MAX OVER CENTRAL AREAS EARLY...SHIFTING ACROSS SRN AREAS DURING THE AFTERNOON. 850 MB TROF ALSO TO STRENGTHEN ACROSS CENTRAL ZONES AS SWLY 850 MB WINDS INCREASE SLIGHTLY. WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS FORECAST IN THE LOW TO MID 70S AND PRECIPITABLE WATER REMAINING OVER 2+ INCHES SRN HALF OF AREA...WILL KEEP GOOD CHANCE TO LIKELY POPS CENTRAL AND S FOR SATURDAY. DEEP MOISTURE PERSISTING SRN AREAS SUNDAY NIGHT BUT LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE WEAKENING...ALTHOUGH UPPER DIVERGENCE MAINTAINED AS WEAK JET COUPLET DEVELOPS AROUND 250 MB OVERNIGHT. SHOULD SEE CONVECTION DECREASE WITH LOSS OF INSOLATION BUT WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS DUE TO UPPER DYNAMICS AND DEEP MOISTURE IN PLACE. 850 MB TROF BEGINS TO WASH OUT SUNDAY WITH GRADUAL DECREASE IN MOISTURE FROM THE N. WEAK 250 MB JET COUPLET PERSISTS SUNDAY...WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE FIELD REMAIN STRONG SRN HALF OF FORECAST AREA WHILE DIMINISHING NRN ZONES. 850 MB FLOW FROM 20-25 KTS BUT LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE DIMINISHING DURING THE DAY. WILL KEEP BEST POPS SUNDAY SRN AREAS. AGREE WITH NCEP PRECIP FORECAST SHOWING HIGHEST AMOUNTS SRN AREAS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. NCEP AMOUNTS FOR SATURDAY ALONG LINES OF ETA FORECAST. GENERAL COVERAGE OF 2-3 INCHES LOOKS TOO HIGH AT THIS TIME. SEE NO PROBLEM WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS THAT HIGH BUT EXPECT LIGHTER GENERAL AREAL AVERAGES MORE NEAR 1/2 TO 1 1/2 INCHES. ALTHOUGH BOTH MRF AND NOGAPS AGREE ON KEEPING REMNANTS OF ALLISON WRN GULF...THEY ALSO AGREE IN INCREASING MOISTURE FROM THE SOUTH BEGINNING LATE MONDAY OR TUESDAY. WILL INTRODUCE CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR TUESDAY IN EXTENDED FORECAST AND KEEP CHANCE THROUGH THURSDAY. PRELIM NUMBERS: JAN 70/83/68/85 5542 MEI 70/83/68/85 4542 .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE.
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 303 PM CDT FRI JUN 08 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...AND WILL ALSO BE MORE NUMEROUS DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...A FEW BRIEF...WEAK TORNADOES MAY OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS...AND WHERE MULTIPLE STORMS MERGE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT LIKELY. ...FLOODING... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. THESE AREAS HAVE ALREADY SEEN HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS...AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE PONDING ON STREETS AND IN POORLY DRAINED AREAS. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads became covered with water and were temporarily impassable in northern portions of the county.
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: 5250496.