Name: Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 14, 2001
Start: 2001-03-14T21:30
End: 2001-03-14T21:30
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
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Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $500
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 Mar 14, 2:40 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 2:40 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
240 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001

...MODERATE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STILL A GO...

ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS...WILL BE GOING WITH A FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL
AREAS EAST OF I-55 FROM MCCOMB TO MORGAN CITY...A WIND ADVISORY WILL
BE HOISTED AT 4 PM FOR SE LA AND COASTAL MS TONIGHT. SATELLITE RSOP
HAS BEEN REQUESTED. 18Z UPPER AIR RELEASE WAS GOOD AND ALL RADAR
PARAMETERS SET FOR THIS EVENING.

SHORT TERM...WARM FRONT JUST OFFSHORE WITH SLIGHTLY ELEVATED
CONVECTION MOVING ONSHORE AT 40 KT. UPPER LOW OVER SAN ANTONIO TX
AREA WITH DIVERGENT SIGNATURE SHOWING IN VISIBLE LOOP. STILL
MAINTAINING SEVERE THREAT TIMING FROM 3 PM THROUGH MIDNIGHT FOR MOST
AREAS. REFER TO LATEST HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...NEWSPSNEW...FOR
THE SEVERE WEATHER DISCUSSION.

LONG TERM...MODELS ARE QUITE SIMILAR IN SOLUTIONS. WILL BE GOING
CLOSE TO AVN GUIDANCE NUMBERS AND MAN-MACHINE PROGS FOR TEMPS AND
POPS. WILL MAINTAIN ISOLATED POPS IN SE PART OF CWA FOR THU AS UPPER
TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH WHICH MAY SET OFF ISOLATED SHOWERS.

THANKS JAN FOR COORD OF FLOOD WATCH AND WIND ADVISORY.

MCB  053/075/047/063 +000    BTR  055/076/050/065 +000
MSY  060/076/053/065 +100    GPT  060/074/050/065 +100

.NEW...SML CRAFT ADVISORY KPQL TO K7R2 INCLUDING LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN
       AND MAUREPAS.
LA...FLOOD WATCH LAZ038>040-058>070 TONIGHT
     WIND ADVISORY LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070 TONIGHT
MS...FLOOD WATCH MSZ070-071-077-080>082 TONIGHT
     WIND ADVISORY MSZ077-080>082 TONIGHT
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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, Hancock

When: March 14, 9:30 PM CST
Where: Hancock County, Waveland
Property damage: $500
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.283, -89.383

A tree was blown down.

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

More

Every storm in Mississippi in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Mississippi, March 2001

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: 5236263.