Flash Flooding in Texas, February 27, 2001

Name: Flash Flooding in Texas, February 27, 2001
Start: 2001-02-27T21:45
End: 2001-02-27T21:45
Location: Texas

February 27, 2001 · NWS SHV · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
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: None recorded
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 27, 9:15 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 9:15 PM CST, 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
915 PM CST TUE FEB 27 2001

RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA...AGGRAVATING FLOOD PROBLEMS.

DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA.  CURRENTLY STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS
ARE BEING OBSERVED ALONG AND SOUTH OF I20...BETWEEN LONGVIEW AND
MINDEN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING NEAR A COLD FRONT JUST SOUTH
A TYR...SHV...ELD LINE.  THIS FRONT WILL SLOWLY SAG SOUTHWARD
THROUGH THE NIGHT...BUT RAIN WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT BEHIND THE
FRONT...WITH SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVTY CONTINUING MAINLY
ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY.  A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT
FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT...AND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE
ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA.  FOR THE FORECAST...WILL RAISE POPS FOR
EVERYONE EXCEPT THE EXTREME NORTH...AND WILL RAISE TEMPS A CATEGORY
IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS.

ELEVEN

.SHV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ALL ZONES.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 27, 4:31 PM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
431 PM CST TUE FEB 27 2001

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

0410 PM    NEW BOSTON                TX   FLASH FLOOD
02/27/01   BOWIE                          FLOODING REPORTED ON
                                          SEVERAL ROADS IN THE
                                          COUNTY...EVACUATIONS AT
                                          WAKE VILLAGE...HOMES
                                          FLOODED...REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0415 PM    TEXARKANA                 AR   FLASH FLOOD
02/27/01   MILLER                         FLOODING REPORTED ON MANY
                                          COUNTY ROADS...ONE COUNTY
                                          ROAD CLOSED...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

0435 PM    LEWISVILLE                AR   FLASH FLOOD
02/27/01   LAFAYETTE                      FLOODING REPORTED ON SEVERAL
                                          COUNTY ROADS...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:43 UTC.

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Event by event

2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Cass

When: February 27, 9:45 PM CST
Where: Cass County, Atlanta
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.078, -94.344 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Numerous roads underwater with some roads impassable.

Flash Flood, Titus

When: February 27, 9:45 PM CST
Where: Titus County, Mt Pleasant
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.217, -94.966 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Numerous roads underwater with FM127 closed 2 miles south of Mt. Pleasant.

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

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: 5230767, 5230768.