1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Sep 19, 1:45 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 245 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2001 UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO PROGRESS EWD ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY TOWARDS THE MS VALLEY. SOME FURTHER INCREASE IN TROPICAL MOISTURE LIKELY TODAY AHEAD OF THIS UPPER TROUGH WITH PWS AROUND 1.9 AND K-INDICES IN THE LOWER 30S. PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH LIKELY AHEAD OF WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM. WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM SHOULD GRADUALLY DRIFT SWD TO THE COAST BY LATE THU. HOWEVER NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN TEMPS INDICATED BUT SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR SHOULD GRADUALLY FILTER SWD TO THE COAST FOR FRI. WILL BASE FORECAST MORE IN LINE WITH ETA/MESOETA ATHOUGH MOST MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL SYNOPTIC FEATURES. SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSMTS SHOULD DEVELOP THIS MORNING OVER WRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA AND GRADUALLY SPREAD SEWD OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA BY AFTERNOON. THEN DRIER WEATHER ONCE AGAIN FOR THU INTO THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER ANOTHER DISTURBANCE ALOFT IS EXPECTED TO DROP SOUTH OUT OF CANADA AND THE GREAT LAKES AND FORCE A WEAK COLD FRONT INTO THE FORECAST AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOLLOW... MCB 86/67/89/64 6100 BTR 87/70/89/67 6100 MSY 87/73/88/71 5200 GPT 85/71/88/68 5200 .NEW...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 05
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-201100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 630 AM CDT WED SEP 19 2001 .SYNOPSIS...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI TODAY AS AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVES EASTWARD THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. .THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND SPREAD EASTWARD TODAY ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 30 MPH AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE MOSTLY LESS THAN ONE-HALF INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEAR ONE INCH. SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. .ACTIONS...NONE. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches occurred in the Gulfport and Biloxi areas resulting in significant street flooding in some neighborhoods.
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, September 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: 5269212.