1 thunderstorm 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 Oct 11, 7:50 AM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 850 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 WILL UPDATE TEXAS ZONES TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH ACROSS EAST TEXAS IN EFFECT THROUGH 100 PM CDT. ALSO POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WHERE FLOODING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED. 09 .SHV...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
550 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 AM PLAIN DEALING LA FLOODING
10/11/01 BOSSIER WATER INTO HOUSE NORTH OF
PLAIN DEALING. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
0400 AM JEFFERSON AR FLOODING
10/11/01 COLUMBIA RAILROAD UNDERPASS UNDER
WATER 1/2 MILE EAST OF
COUNTY LINE ON HWY 82.
18 WHEELER DAMAGED
ATTEMPTING TO CROSS.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
0500 AM STAMPS AR FLOODING
10/11/01 LAFAYETTE FULLER MILL ROAD CLOSED
DUE TO WATER. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT.ARZ061-070>072-LAZ002-TXZ112-111400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 636 AM CDT THU OCT 11 2001 OVERNIGHT FLOODING HAS RECEDED IN SOME AREAS...AND WILL SLOWLY RECEDE IN OTHERS THIS MORNING. FLOODING HAS PRODUCED TRAVELING HAZARDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS... WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT WATER ON ROADWAYS HAS CONTRIBUTED TO EARLY MORNING ACCIDENTS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO REDUCE SPEED AND EXERCISE GREAT CAUTION THIS MORNING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...AND AVOID ENTERING WATER THAT IS SWIFTLY FLOWING. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY FALL AT TIMES...THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...WHICH MAY AGGRAVATE FLOODING CONDITIONS. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING OCCURS...BY MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown over onto a man causing extensive injuries.
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, October 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: 5269389.