Name: Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 2, 2001
Start: 2001-03-02T16:05
End: 2001-03-02T16:10
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $3,000
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 Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 2, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
245 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001

AVIATION MODEL SEEMS TO BE THE MODEL OF CHOICE AS FAR AS TIMING OF
EVENTS OVER THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS. HEAVIEST RAIN WILL LIKELY BE
FOCUSED NEAR WARM FRONT WHICH SHOULD REMAIN NEAR MY NORTHERN TIER OF
COUNTIES THIS EVENING. SOUTHERN SECTIONS ARE GETTING ENOUGH BREAKS
IN THE CLOUD COVER TO WARM UP NICELY AND THIS AREA COULD BE PRIMED
FOR POTENTIAL SEVERE STORMS EXCEPT FOR A DEEP MOIST ATMOSPHERE
...MOBILE POINT PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR DEMO SITE SHOWS A LITTLE
OVER A INCH AND A HALF AT 1 PM...WHICH AGREES NICELY WITH FORECAST
VALUES. BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE NEAR THERMAL GRADIENT AND ANY LOCAL
FEATURES THAT WOULD AFFECT LOW LEVEL SHEAR. MORE SEVERE STORMS
POSSIBLE SATURDAY AS COLDER AIR ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LOW
MOVES ACROSS FORECAST AREA AND LOW LEVEL JET CRANKS UP TO NEAR 60 KT
AT H8 IN ADVANCE OF FRONT. SURFACE FRONT MOVES THROUGH SATURDAY
EVENING WITH LOW CLOUDS AND PATCHY RAIN AND SHOWERS CONTINUING INTO
SUNDAY. MAY NEED TO EXPAND FLASH FLOOD WATCH EAST TONIGHT BUT AT
THIS TIME DONT THINK WE WILL NEED ONE OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF
FORECAST AREA AS MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAIN HAS BEEN NORTH OF THE
COASTAL COUNTIES. ZONES WILL REFLECT ONGOING TORNADO WATCHES.

EXTENDED GUIDANCE SHOWS FREEZING OR BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVER
MOST OF AREA NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10 FOR MONDAY MORNING. WILL WAIT AT
LEAST UNTIL TOMORROW BEFORE ISSUING SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...IT
WOULD LIKELY NOT GET THE EMPHASIS A LATE FREEZE SHOULD IF ISSUED
DURING A SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE.

MOB WE 066/073 051/060 033 119+4
PNS WE 067/073 053/061 036 119+4
DTS WE 068/072 056/061 038 118+5
GZH TE 061/073 050/057 032 118+6
2R0 TE 059/068 047/055 031 118+6
61A TE 061/073 050/057 032 118+6

.MOB...
AL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALZ039-051 TONIGHT.
FL...NONE.
MS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH MSZ067 TONIGHT.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Wayne

When: March 2, 4:05 PM CST to 4:10 PM CST
Where: Wayne County, Eucutta
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.800, -88.867

Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the community.

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: 5236793.