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 15, 1:35 PM CST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 135 PM CST SAT DEC 15 2001 QUITE A WET SHORT TERM ALREADY INTO PLAY. MOISTURE IN ABUNDANCE IN THE LOWER AND MID LEVELS WILL KEEP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA FOR TONIGHT AND THROUGH SUN NT. WARM FRONT SHOULD PUSH NWD TONIGHT. MIN TEMPERATURES FOR THE MOST PART WILL BE IN THE EVENING WITH NEARLY STEADY TO SLOWLY RISING TEMPERATURES DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WILL GO WITH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES FOR TONIGHT AND SUN AS CONTINUING RAIN EVENT WILL ANTAGONIZE AN ALREADY SOGGY SITUATION. MANY RIVERS IN CWFA ALREADY HAVE FLOOD WARNINGS FOR THEM. WILL BE MONITORING AREA CLOSELY AS RAIN TOTALS CONTINUE TO RISE. FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH FROM NW TO SE DURING SUN NT. LOOKS LIKE SOME OVERRUNNING CLOUDS MON MORNING THEN CLEARING BY AFTERNOON. EXTENDED LOOKS DRY FOR TUE-THU. ON THU...CLOUDS BEGIN TO FILTER BACK INTO THE REGION. FRI AND SAT LOOKS FOR RAIN CHANCES TO REENTER THE FORECAST AS ANOTHER SYSTEM DRAWS NEAR. 20 PRELIMS... SHV 056/069 049/057 037 ++70 MLU 057/072 051/059 037 7+71 TXK 050/062 045/055 038 ++61 TYR 054/065 044/056 038 ++60 LFK 062/073 046/058 036 ++60 .SHV...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous cars stalled in high water. People had to be rescued from car roof tops.
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: 5273422.