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 12, 3:00 AM CST, 6 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 300 AM CST WED DEC 12 2001 EARLY THIS MORNING A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO OF SW LA INTO SE TX FROM BETWEEN KBPT AND KLCH TO KUTS. DURING THE DAY THE FRONT SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES REFORMS OVER TX AND OK AND THEM MOVES ACROSS OK..NW AR AND MO. BY MID DAY THE LOW WILL BE NEAR CENTRAL OR N OK WITH WARM FRONT REACHING ACREOSS SE OK INTO S AR AND NE LA WITH A COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL TX. BY EARLY EVENING THE LOW WILL HAVE MOVED INTO MO WITH THE COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH NEAR A KTXK TO KGGG AND KLFK LINE. AS THE SURFACE LOW MOVES OFF TO THE NORTHEAST TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES REGION OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...THE COLD FRONT SLOWS IN ITS EAST PROGRESSION AND LOOKS TO EXTEND ALONG THE EASTERN MOST ZONES NEAR A KMLU TO KESF LINE. TEMPERATURES SHOULD RISE DURING THE DAY FROM SOUTH TO NORTH OVER THE FOUR STATE REGION WITH READINGS REACHING INTO THE MID 70S. COOLER AIR ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT WILL THEN ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DIP BACK INTO THE 40S AND 50S OVER THE WEST OVERNIGHT TONIGHT WITH READINGS NEAR 60 OVER THE EAST WHERE WARMER AIR IS SLOWER TO BE REPLACES ALONG SLOW MOVING FRONT. ALOFT STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS CONTINUE TO PULL GULF AND PACIFIC MOISTURE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AND WITH DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE FLOW AND ACROSS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WILL CONTINUE TO PROUDCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. PROFILER DATA THIS MORNING INDICATED AROUND 80 KNOT SPEEDS AT JET LEVEL WITH AREA BECOMING SITUATED IN THE RIGHT REAR PART OF JET OF NEAR 100 KNOT SPEEDS AROUND MID DAY TO EARLY AFTERNOON. THIS SHOULD HELP ENHANCE LIFT OVER FORECAST AREA AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE POSSIBLILTY OF A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL MENTION CHANCE OF SEVERE IN THE 400 AM ZONES. A SHORT WAVE MOVES THROUGH THE BASE OF UPPER TROUGH OVER TX DURING THE DAY REACHING THE LOWER TEXAS PANHANDLE AROUND MID DAY AND THEN OFF TO THE NORTHEAST THROUGH OK DURING THE AFTERNOON. MODELS SHOW DIFFERENT TIMEING OF DRY SLOT MOVING FROM TEXAS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON WHICH SHOULD END RAINFALL WEST SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST WITH MOST ALL RAIN OVERWITH BY MIDNIGHT OVER THE EAST. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE MOVES THROUGH TROUGH ACROSS TX DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. THIS DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH PRETTY QUICK AND WILL POSSIBLY PRODUCE A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION AND I WILL INCLUDE SCATTERED ACTIVITY IN ZONES. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN FORECAST BUT WILL NOT INCLUDE FLASH FLOOD WATCH. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE LOWEST VALUES ABOVE ONE INCH IN 3HR PERIODS. THIS MAY BECOME CLOSE TO SOME RAINFALL AMOUNTS BUT WILL OMIT AT THIS TIME. I LIKE THE AVN WARMER NUMBERS FOR TODAY AND WILL STAY BETWEEN THE NGM MOS AND AVN HIGHS FOR 3RD PERIOD. FOR LOWS WILL STAY NEAR BOTH SINCE THEY DO NOT DEVIATE BY MUCH. ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COMES DURING THE WEEKEND LATE SATURDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY. 06 SHV 072 048/060 038 060 9141 MLU 071 052/060 040 060 +561 TXK 069 046/057 037 057 9240 TYR 073 045/057 035 059 9130 LFK 074 047/062 037 062 9030 .SHV...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
957 AM CST WED DEC 12 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 AM STONEWALL LA FLOODING
12/12/01 DE SOTO WATER OVER ROAD AT A LOW
POINT ALONG HWY 3276.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0930 AM MANSFIELD LA FLOODING
12/12/01 DE SOTO WATER HALF WAY UP HUB CAPS
AT SPOTS ALONG HWY 84.
SOME CARS STALLED.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0945 AM CARMEL LA FLOODING
12/12/01 DE SOTO NEAR I-49 AND HWY 509 RAMP.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:55 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
FM 138 just west of center was flooded and had to be barricaded causing traffic to detour.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, 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: 5275001.