2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 8, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 325 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 MAIN FORECAST CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVE HEAVY RAIN THREAT FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY AHEAD OF MODERATE FROPA SUNDAY NIGHT/EARLY MONDAY. THEN DRYING TREND WITH COOLER NIGHTS EXPECTED INTO THE MEDIUM RANGE PERIOD AS WE CROSS THE PEAK OF THE HURRICANE SEASON NEXT WEEK. FOR TONIGHT...NEAR 2 INCH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES IN SRN HALF OF MS THROUGH SUNDAY WITH HEAVIEST RAIN EXPECTED TO FOCUS PRIMARILY IN THE COASTAL AREAS. MAY NEED TO RAISE A FFA SUNDAY MORNING IF TRAINING PATTERN DEVELOPS IN SRN ZONES BUT WILL WORD IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FOR NOW SINCE EXPECTED STORM MOTIONS SHOULD PRECLUDE A WIDESPREAD FLOOD THREAT. PRIMARY OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MORNING CONVECTION CLUSTER IN SERN LA NOW EXTENDS FROM NEAR BASTROP TO CANTON TO MERIDIAN PROGRESSING N AT 15-20MPH. MODELS STILL WEAKEN 200MB DIVERGENCE AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ACROSS LOWER MS VALLEY AFTER 00Z AND EXPECT INLAND CONVECTION TO DIMINISH WITH SUNSET. ON SUNDAY...TROPICAL AIRMASS WITH PLENTY OF CONVECTIVE CLOUD DEBRIS WILL RULE DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS. MODELS NOT OVERLY UNSTABLE IN SUNDAY AFTERNOON(CAPES LESS THAN 1500) DUE TO LIMITED INSOLATION AS MID-UPPER DYNAMICS PASS WELL N OF THE CWFA. VERTICAL MOTION FIELDS AND WEAKER LAPSE RATES SHOULD PRECLUDE MUCH OF A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT AT LEAST UNTIL FRONTAL SYSTEM ARRIVES LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. EXPECT A BAND OF FRONTAL CONVECTION FROM MIDNIGHT-NOON MONDAY CROSSING THE AREA NW TO SE FOLLOWED BY DRYING AIRMASS MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY. MEDIUM RANGE DAYS 4 THROUGH 7 LOOK DRY WITH COOL NIGHTS AS MEAN UPPER TROUGH POSITION IN THE CENTRAL CONUS REPLACED BY A FLAT RIDGE CENTERED IN W TX. A REINFORCING DRY FRONT EXPECTED TO PASS THE AREA ABOUT FRIDAY OTHERWISE CLOUDS SHOULD BE RATHER LIMITED. GUIDANCE FORECAST TEMPERATURES LOOK REASONABLE EXCEPT FOR WHAT APPEAR TO BE ANOMALOUSLY COOL FMR MAXIMUMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AT KJAN...PREFER KMEI NUMBERS. .PRELIM NUMBERS... JAN 073/087 069/085 061/084 4674- MEI 072/088 070/086 061/085 46751 .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE.
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1157 AM CDT SAT SEP 08 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WITH THE HEAT OF THE DAY AND PRIMARILY BE CONCENTRATED IN THE AFTERNOON. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...HOWEVER...THE STRONGER STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL CONTAIN WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ABUNDANT TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH HEATING TO PRODUCE THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH DURING THE EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. ...FLOODING... WITH A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERAL STORMS PASSING OVER THE SAME AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH RAPID RISES IN CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS. AREAS WHERE THIS IS POSSIBLE INCLUDE SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ALONG AND SOUTH OF A WINNSBORO...LOUISIANA TO LAUREL MISSISSIPPI LINE. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 248 PM CDT SAT SEP 08 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WITH THE HEAT OF THE DAY AND PRIMARILY BE CONCENTRATED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...HOWEVER...THE STRONGER STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL CONTAIN WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ABUNDANT TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH HEATING TO PRODUCE THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH DURING THE EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. ...FLOODING... WITH A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERAL STORMS PASSING OVER THE SAME AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH RAPID RISES IN CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS. AREAS WHERE THIS IS POSSIBLE INCLUDE SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ALONG AND SOUTH OF A WINNSBORO...LOUISIANA TO LAUREL MISSISSIPPI LINE. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Locally very heavy rainfall fell for several hours in a small portion of Rankin county just east of the Reservoir. Minor flash flooding occurred on a number of streets as ditches and small streams overflowed.
A few trees and large limbs were blown down and caused several power lines to be knocked down.
Several roads were flooded and a few were washed out as locally heavy rain fell over portions of northwestern Neshoba county.
A 23 year old man who had been dove hunting was struck by lightning while walking to his pick-up truck as he attempted to escape an approaching thunderstorm. The man was initially in critical, but stable condition. He recovered quickly and was discharged from the hospital several days later.
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: 5267711, 5267712, 5267713, 5267714.