1 high wind, 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 Feb 24, 2:45 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 245 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 FRONT CONTINUES TO TRACK EASTWARD AROUND 30 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON EXTENDS FROM NEAR DEQ TO TYR. STORMS SHOWING A TENDENCY TO INCREASE...ESPECIALLY ON NORTHERN END OF LINE. SOUTHERN PORTION OF LINE IS BROKEN AND ONLY LIGHTER SHOWERS. CURRENT TORNADO WATCH RUNS UNTIL 5 PM FOR NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF CWA WITH ANOTHER WATCH EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING FOR NORTHEAST COUNTIES. FRONT SHOULD CLEAR ALL OF CWA BY MIDNIGHT WITH CLEARING SKIES WORKING INTO AREA BEHIND FRONT. SUNNY SKIES EXPECTED ON SUNDAY WITH NOT A LOT OF COOLING BEHIND FRONT. UPPER WINDS REMAIN SOUTHWEST SO CLEARING WILL NOT LAST LONG. EXPECT INCREASING CLOUDINESS SUNDAY NIGHT...MAINLY CIRRUS...AND BY MONDAY...CLOUDY MOST OF CWA WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN PORTIONS OF EAST TEXAS. BY MONDAY NIGHT ALL OF CWA CAN EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH RAIN LIKELY TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. MRF WANTS TO CONTINUE RAIN BEYOND WEDNESDAY...HOWEVER AVN SHOWS ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPING WED NIGHT WITH TROF ...SO AT THIS TIME WILL HOLD BACK ON PRECIP FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHV 46/70/45/65 7001 MLU 49/68/45/63 8001 TXK 47/67/43/62 3011 TYR 47/69/46/64 0013 LFK 48/74/45/68 3014 .SHV...NONE. 14
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-241730- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1045 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND TRACK EAST REACHING NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS BY EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND. SOME HAIL IS ALSO EXPECTED AND A TORNADO OR TWO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. EXPECT TORNADO WATCHES TO BE ISSUED BY EARLY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHEAST TEXAS ...SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WITH WATCHES POSSIBLE IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA EARLY THIS EVENING. THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
House and barn damaged by high winds ahead of a cold front in East Mountain.
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, 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: 5230694.