Name: Damaging Wind in Mississippi, October 13, 2001
Start: 2001-10-13T18:00
End: 2001-10-13T18:15
Location: Mississippi

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $25,000
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 Oct 13, 4:00 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 4:00 PM CST, 2 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
500 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

SEE THE ZONES. THINGS WILL IMPROVE RAPIDLY ONCE THE TROUGH AND VORT
MAX MOVES THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.

MCB UU 057/076 048/078 052 17800
BTR UU 060/080 051/078 053 17800
MSY UU 063/078 058/078 058 17800
GPT UU 063/078 053/077 054 17+00

.NEW...SMALL CRAFT ADZY KPQL TO ATCHAFALAYA RVR.
LA...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING EXTREME SOUTHEAST COASTAL PARISHES UNTIL
MIDNIGHT.
MS...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING FOR HANCOCK...AND A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH
IS IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON AND HARRISON COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 13, 1:35 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

LAZ034>038-046>050-056>060-065>067-MSZ068>070-132200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
235 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM
MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI TO HOUMA LOUISIANA. THE LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THIS AREA.

THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
AND FOR THE COASTAL MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES UNTIL 6 PM CDT.

Special weather statement, Oct 13, 4:25 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

LAZ064-LAZ067>070-MSZ080>082-132300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
525 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR PLAQUEMINES
...LOWER JEFFERSON...ST BERNARD...LOWER LAFOURCHE PARISHES AND FOR
HANCOCK...HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI.

ALL OTHER PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ARE NO LONGER IN THE
TORNADO WATCH.

Special weather statement, Oct 13, 5:01 PM CST, 59 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson

When: October 13, 6:00 PM CST to 6:15 PM CST
Where: Jackson County, Pascagoula
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.367, -88.533

Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines, blew out windows in three buildings, damaged the pump awning and door of a gas station, and destroyed the crossing arms at two railroad crossings. A large tree limb damaged a car that it fell on. The Coast Guard station in Pascagoula had reports of wind gusts to 70 knots.

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, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5271101.