1 lightning, 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 Sep 5, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 300 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2001 CONVECTION JUST BEGINNING TO FIRE ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THIS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS WITH ISOLATED ACTIVITY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. CONVECTION MAINLY CAUSED BY DAYTIME HEATING WITH THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE. UPPER LOW OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WILL BEGIN TO OPEN UP ON THURSDAY THEN MOVE EAST OUT OF AREA BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. WILL DROP POPS FROM FORECAST FRIDAY NIGHT. THEN NEXT FRONT MOVES RAPIDLY INTO AREA AS INDICTED BY AVN AS OPPOSED TO TUESDAYS RUN WHICH HAD IT STALLING OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THUS LAST NIGHTS MRF RUN WITH PRECIP CONTINUING INTO NEXT WEEK CAN BE TOSSED...AS FRONT SHOULD PASS ACROSS NORTHERN PORTION OF AREA SATURDAY...AND SOUTHERN ZONES SATURDAY NIGHT. BY EARLY SUNDAY HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD BE BUILDING INTO REGION BRINGING DRIER AIR. WILL INTRODUCE SOME 60S FOR LOWS IN FORECAST BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT WITH PLENTY OF SUNSHINE...HIGHS SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO PRESENT...ONLY WILL FEEL MUCH MORE PLEASANT. THUS A LITTLE TOUCH OF FALL WEATHER ON THE HORIZON. PRELIMS.... SHV 072/092/072/092 3322 MLU 071/092/071/091 2322 TXK 073/090/073/091 3322 TYR 073/090/073/090 4222 LFK 072/091/072/091 3222 .SHV...NONE 14
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:21 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a 100 year old church which caught fire and burned to the ground.
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, September 2001
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