Name: Flooding in Texas, February 17 to 28, 2001
Start: 2001-02-17T00:01
End: 2001-02-28T23:59
Location: Texas

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $425,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 9:10 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
910 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001

UPDATED THE ZONES TO REMOVE THE REMAINING POPS...AND WE ALSO
ADJUSTED THE SKY WORDING TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT TRENDS. NO OTHER
CHANGES AT THIS TIME.     05

.SHV...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 16, 9:03 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
1120 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001  ...CORRECTED FOR STATE...

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0820 AM    9 S SHREVEPORT            LA   NON TSTM WINDS
02/16/01   CADDO                          MAN SLIGHTLY INJURED
                                          WHEN HIT BY TREE LIMB
               ^                           BLOWN DOWN BY WINDS

The radar

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Event by event

2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Marion

When: February 17, 12:01 AM CST to February 28, 11:59 PM CST
Where: Marion forecast zone
Property damage: $300,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.798, -94.357 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Excessive and prolonged heavy rains fell across the Caddo Lake basin. Caddo Lake rose and crested at a stage of 174.9 feet on the 22nd. The lake remained above the 172 foot flood stage at months end. Up to 100 homes in the Karnack, Uncertain, and Cypress Village areas in reported overflow from the high lake levels with one to two feet of water in them.

Flood, Harrison

When: February 17, 12:01 AM CST to February 28, 11:59 PM CST
Where: Harrison forecast zone
Property damage: $125,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.548, -94.371 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Excessive and prolonged heavy rains fell across the Caddo Lake basin. Caddo Lake rose and crested at a stage of 174.9 feet on the 22nd. The lake remained above the 172 foot flood stage at months end. Up to 100 homes in the Karnack, Uncertain, and Cypress Village areas in reported overflow from the high lake levels with one to two feet of water in them.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5230775, 5230776.