Flash Flood, Panola
- When
- December 16, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Panola County, Carthage
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.162, -94.306 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flooding along highways 79, 149, and 315.
Flash Flood in Texas, December 16, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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, 9:30 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 9:30 PM CST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 930 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001 FINALLY...LIGHT AT THE END OF THE DAY...AS CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY TRACKING ACROSS CWA...CENTERED JUST NORTH OF SHREVEPORT. FRONT EXTENDS FROM LOW TO AROUND LUFKIN AND ON TO THE TEXAS COAST NEAR GALVESTON. STILL A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS AS THE LINE TRACKS ACROSS NORTH LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS...BUT SHOULD BE EAST OF AREA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME FLASH FLOODING ALSO POSSIBLE...AS SOME STORMS PRODUCING UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR. WILL NOT MAKE ANY BIG CHANGES TO ZONES...BUT WILL LIKELY DROP ALL MENTION OF SEVERE WEATHER IN TEXAS ZONES. ALLOWING FLOOD WATCH TO STAND IN COUNTIES IT WAS ISSUED FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AS FLOODING IS ONGOING. UPDATE WILL BE OUT SHORTLY BEFORE 10 PM. .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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 16, 3:50 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
350 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 AM GOLDEN OK FLOODING
12/16/01 MCCURTAIN 2 1/2 FEET OF WATER
COVERING COUNTRY ROAD.
5 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW.
840 AM MOUNT PLEASANT TX FLOODING
12/16/01 TITUS FLOODING REPORT AT VARIOUS
LOCATIONS: SE 15 AND SE
26...SE 9 AND SE 38... AND
A BRIDGE OUT AT NW 46 OFF
OF 1402.
250 PM BROKEN BOW OK FLOODING
12/16/01 MCCURTAIN CAR WASHED OFF ROAD ON OLD
US 70.
NNNNLocal storm report, Dec 16, 5:00 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
600 PM CDT SUN DEC 16 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM JUDSON TX WIND DAMAGE
12/16/01 GREGG TREES DOWN AND ROOF
DAMAGE. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
20Local storm report, Dec 16, 7:40 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
740 PM CST SUN DEC 16 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0605 PM QUITMAN TX FLOODING
12/16/01 WOOD WATER COVERS HWY 37 IN QUITMAN
MANY FM ROADS UNDERWATER
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0615 PM MOUNT VERNON TX FLOODING
12/16/01 FRANKLIN 2 FEET OF WATER STANDING ON
HWY 37 S NEAR MOUNT VERNON
ROAD IMPASSABLE
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0620 PM BOGOTA TX FLOODING
12/16/01 RED RIVER HWYS 909, 1487 CLOSED NEAR
BOGOTA DUE TO HIGH WATER
HWY 410 NEAR KANAWHA ALSO FLOODED
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0625 PM IDABEL OK FLOODING
12/16/01 MCCURTAIN HWY 37 WEST OF IDABEL IS FLOODED
MANY FM ROADS STILL UNDERWATER
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0705 PM 1 S ASHDOWN AR FLOODING
12/16/01 LITTLE RIVER HWY 71 SOUTH OF ASHDOWN HAS
1-1.5 FEET OF WATER STANDING OVER
ROADWAY MANY COUNTY ROADS FLOODED
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
0725 PM LONGVIEW TX FLOODING
12/16/01 GREGG INTERSECTION OF HARLEY RIDGE AND
PINE TREE RD IS FLOODED
REPORT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
15The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Texas, December 16, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, December 16, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, December 16 to 18, 2001
- Storm Surge in Washington, December 16, 2001
- Flooding in Washington, December 16 to 19, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Arkansas, December 16, 2001
- Flooding in Kentucky, December 16 to 18, 2001
- Tornado in Texas, December 16, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, December 16, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, December 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, December 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, December 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, December 2001
Sources
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: 5273425.