Flash Flood, Red River
- When
- February 16, 7:15 AM CST
- Where
- Red River County, Avery
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.621, -95.050 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
FM 911 closed due to high water from flooding.
Flash Flood in Texas, February 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 Feb 16, 7:02 AM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 7:02 AM CST, 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 702 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 SURFACE LOW STRENGTHING NEAR SHREVEPORT...IS RESULTING IN STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. UPDATED TO INCLUDE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH LA AND SOUTHERN AR. IV PREVIOUS NUMBERS... SHV 56/34/53/31 8200 MLU 61/36/52/30 8300 TXK 56/31/48/30 8300 TYR 52/30/49/33 8100 LFK 52/30/49/33 8100 .SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON TODAY ARZ050-051-059>061- 070>073-LAZ001>006-010>012-017-OKZ077-TXZ096-097-108>112- 124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167. HIGH WIND WARNING THIS MORNING ARZ070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014.
The 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, February 16, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, February 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, February 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 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: 5230676.