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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 2, 9:40 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 940 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001 0300Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS QSTNRY FRONT FRM KPIB TO KMCB-JUST E OF KLCH TO TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. CANNOT FIND A CLOSED LOW AS BUT AN ELONGATED OPEN TROUGH FROM KMCB TO KBRO. MODELS CONTINUE TO DEPICT A LOW OVER S CENTRAL LOUISIANA BY 12Z SAT. DONT HAVE A STRONG FEELING FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT...SEE AND OPEN WAVE AS THE MORE LIKELY EVENT. 250 MB JET CORE STILL ON TRACK TO PUT SE LOUISIANA...SW AND S MISSISSIPPI IN RIGHT REAR QUAD BY 12Z SAT. THIS IS IN LINE WITH PROJECTED MOVEMENT OF 500 MB TROUGH. WITH CURRENT HIGH DEW POINTS... PRECIP WATER VALUES OF 1.6 TO 1.7 INCHES...CURRENT QPF VALUE FROM NCEP LOOK OK. WILL EXTEND FLASH FLOOD WATCH ACROSS ENTIRE CWA FOR SAT. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO REFLECT THIS. POPS LOOK OK FOR NOW. AS FOR MARINE...WILL HOLD OFF ON SMALL CRAFT EXERCISE CAUTION UNTIL SAT AFTERNOON AND SMALL CRAFT ADZY WIND LEVELS TIL SAT NIGHT/SUN PERIOD. .NEW...NONE. LA...FFA ALL PARISHES IN SE LOUISIANA. MS...FFA MSZ068>071-077-080>082.
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-031300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1030 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001 .SYNOPSIS...UNSTABLE AIRMASS COVERS MOST OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA WITH A STATIONARY FRONT LOCATED FROM NEAR THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN STATIONARY TONIGHT AS A A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER THE GULF AND MONVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE FRONT SATURDAY. AN UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL BE APPROACHING THE REGION FROM THE WEST. ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE FROM SATURDAY MORNING TO NOON. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST AND EXTREME SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THROUGH SATURDAY... RAINFALL RATES OF ONE INCH PER HOUR IS LIKELY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF THREE INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF FIVE INCHES POSSIBLE SATURDAY. ...ACTIONS... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL LATE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR HOME PAGE ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS...HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LETTERjS SHOULD BE LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall caused severe flooding of roadways. Law enforcement reported 13 to 14 roadways were severely flooded, mostly in the Picayune area. At least one home had minor flooding.
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, March 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: 5236402.