2 blizzard, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 11:10 AM MST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1210 PM MDT SUN APR 22 2001
QUICK UPDATE TO DELINIATE MORNING OCCURRENCES. SEVERAL UPDATES
REQUIRED MAINLY TO ADD SVR WATCH...MODIFY WATCH...THEN ADD TOR
WATCH. MOST SEVERE TO NORTH AND EAST OF AREA NOW AS DRY SLOT MOVES
ENE ACROSS SOUTHERN CWA. CLEAR SKIES AND DEEPENING LOW IN SE CO MOST
LIKELY WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER ROUND OF SVR FROM SOUTH IN THE NEXT
FEW HRS. AT SAME TIME COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM SE CHEYENNE CNTY TO
SE GLD TO NEAR MCK APPEARS TO BE SLOWING/STOPPING/BACKING IN
RESPONSE TO AFOREMENTED DEEPENING LOW.
AS PER DEN/BOU AM WATCHING WITH INTEREST NEW MODELS AND THEIR
IMPLICATION OF HEAVY SNOW FOR NE CO. IF TRUE WILL AFFECT WESTERN
PTNS MY 3 CO CNTYS. WILL LOOK AT CAREFULLY.
AS OF NOW REMAINDER FCST ON TRACK. BUT MORE TO COME SHORTLY.
.GLD...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY LATE MORN/AFTN COLORADO ZONE 90
WIND ADVISORY TODAY lCOLORADO ZONES 91..92
WIND ADVISORY TODAY NEBRASKA ZONES 79..80..81
WIND ADVISORY TODAY KANSAS ZONES 1>4..13>16..27>29..41>42
RJCKSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-041-042-221625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1007 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CHEYENNE...RAWLINS... SHERMAN...THOMAS...WALLACE...LOGAN...GREELEY...AND WICHITA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. BULLER
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-230600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1045 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 HERE IS THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EASTERN COLORADO. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS REMAINS OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. AS A RESULT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON IN THIS AREA. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO HOXIE TO GOVE. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. BULLER
KSZ003-004-015-016-029-221715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1108 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR THE REST OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR DECATUR...NORTON...SHERIDAN... GRAHAM...AND GOVE WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT NOON CDT. BULLER
KSZ003-004-015-016-029-NEZ081-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1121 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 5 PM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH THAT COVERS RED WILLOW COUNTY OF NEBRASKA...AND DECATUR...NORTON...SHERIDAN... GRAHAM...AND GOVE COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE nWARNINGS. BULLER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.
White-out conditions across western Yuma County. Lost numerous utility poles due to the wind and heavy wet snow with strong low pressure system.
White-out conditions across northwestern Kit Carson County with 1 to 2 inches of snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, April 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: 5243012, 5243013.