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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 16, 10:50 AM CST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1050 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001 FORECAST GOING AS EXPECTED FOR MOST PART. NOT A LOT OF PRECIPIATION IN EAST PORTION OF AREA AS OF YET...BUT WITH WARM FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTION OF AREA...AND UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD AREA...EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. TEMPERATURES HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO TO REACH PREDICTED HIGHS IN NORTHERN PORTION OF AREA...BUT AS FRONT BEGINS TO MOVE NORTH...TEMPS WILL RISE RAPIDLY. RAIN CONTINUES IN FLOOD WATCH AREA IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...BUT NO REPORTS OF SEROIUS FLOODING...ONLY MINOR AT THIS TIME WITH SOME ROADS UNDERWATER. HOWEVER MAY EXTENDED A COUPLE A FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS UNTIL RAIN SLACKS OFF A LITTLE MORE. .SHV...FLOOD WATCH...NORTHWEST OF A MAGNOLIA AR...RUSK TX LINE ARZ050-051-059>061-070>072-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112-124>126-136>138- 149-150 14
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-161730- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1040 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001 A WARM FRONT...LOCATED THIS MORNING FROM NEAR NACOGDOCHES TEXAS TO NEAR VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI...WILL MOVE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PLACE EAST TEXAS...NORTH LOUISIANA AND MUCH SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS IN A WARM AND VERY MOIST AIRMASS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS...WILL MOVE EAST TONIGHT...BRINGING THE NECESSARY LIFT FOR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. THE COMBINATION OF THE FRONTS...WARM MOIST AIR...AND A DEEP UPPER LEVEL TROUGH...WILL SET THE STAGE FOR CONVECTION. THERE A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT...HOWEVER THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT WILL SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOES. SKYWARN NETWORKS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SPOTTERS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...SHOULD KEEP INFORMED OF WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT.
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:52 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A car was washed off the road on U.S. Hwy 70. No reports of injuries.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, December 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: 5273420.