1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 28, 1:20 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 220 AM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 MASSIVE MCS DEVELOPED ACROSS OK...PRODUCING AREAS OF DAMAGING WINDS NEARLY STATEWIDE. PRESENTLY...THIS ACTIVITY BEARING DOWN INTO NW SECTIONS OF REGION. SOME ACTIVITY MAY HAVE TROUBLE REACHING SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF AREA AS LOW LEVEL WINDS BECOME MORE SOUTHWESTERLY... CUTTING MOISTURE OUT OF EAST TX. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PROVIDE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONVECTIVE REDEVELOPMENT MONDAY AFTERNOON. INSTABILITES NEARLY AS HIGH...BUT LOW LEVEL VEERING NOT AS DRAMATIC. DEEP CLOSED LOW OVER GREAT LAKES OPENS UP...BUT IS REPLACED BY DEEPER CLOSED LOW REDEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THIS SHOULD REINFORCE LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW OUT OF GULF AND ALLOW NW FLOW ALOFT TO CONTINUE AS WELL. FOCUSING WARM FRONT WILL PULL TO THE NORTH AND EAST IN RESPONSE TO UPPER LOW REFORMING...KEEP SOUTH PORTIONS IN SLIGHT CHANCE REST OF PERIOD...BEST POPS IN SOUTH AR AS MCS DEVELOPMENT MAY REAPPEAR ACROSS OK TONIGHT...AND EVEN POSSIBLY TUESDAY NIGHT. DAYTIME HIGH GRADIENT WILL LIKELY INCREASE AS DRYING PORTIONS OF EAST TX SHOULD ALOW FOR 90 DEGREE READINGS NEXT FEW DAYS. MUST WRAP UP ZONE PACKAGE SOON AND SHIFT ATTENTION TO SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SHV 87/70/89/68 4233 MLU 85/70/87/70 5343 TXK 86/70/86/68 3454 TYR 89/71/90/72 3222 LFK 91/71/91/73 3222 VII .SHV...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
344 AM CDT MON MAY 28 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0209 AM MOUNT VERNON TX WIND DAMAGE
05/28/01 FRANKLIN TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.LAZ010-017-TXZ152-153-165>167-281100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 503 AM CDT MON MAY 28 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MANSFIELD LOUISIANA...TO LUFKIN TEXAS...WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...UP TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE WINDS MAY UPROOT A FEW SMALL TREES...AND BLOW SOME TREE LIMBS DOWN...AS THEY MOVE THROUGH EAST TEXAS...AND WEST CENTRAL LOUISIANA.
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tree fell through a travel trailer at Hanks Creek Park at Sam Rayburn Reservoir.
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, May 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: 5242027.