Flash Flood in Texas, February 16, 2001

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.

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
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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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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.

• Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 16, 20011 death · 1 injured · $24 million · F2 · 37 events
• Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 16, 20011 death · 7 injured · $1.6 million · 75 kt wind · 26 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, February 16, 20014 injured · $538,000 · 1.75 in hail · 36 events
• Damaging Winds in Alabama, February 16, 2001$80,000 · 65 kt wind · 2 events
• Damaging Winds in Louisiana, February 16, 2001$55,000 · 6 events
• Tornado and Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 16, 2001$65,000 · F0 · 2 events
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001$50,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001$35,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, February 16, 2001$7,000 · 52 kt wind · 27 events
• Damaging Wind in Louisiana, February 16, 2001$25,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 16, 2001$20,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Georgia, February 16, 2001$20,000 · F0 · 1 event

Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, February 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: 5230677.