1 flood, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 24, 1:35 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 235 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001 PRIMARY FCST CHALLENGE REMAINS POPS AND HEAT. LATEST 88D PICS SHOW SCT CONVECTION MOVING INTO NW CORRIDOR PAH FA AS WITH IR IMAGERY DEPICTING COOLING TOPS ECNTL MO/WCNTL IL...IN ASSOC WITH WEAK VORT PICKED UP BY MODELS. DESPITE MINOR MODEL DIFFERENCES IN EXACT TRACK OF VORT...ALL BASICALLY SHOW A SWARD SAG WITH THE NW CORRIDOR OF THE PAH FA UNDER A HIGHER THREAT FOR POPS...OR AT THE LEAST...MORE EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS FM NEARBY CONVECTION VERSUS SE CORRIDOR. BELIEVE SAID CLOUDINESS FM CONVECTION WL LIMIT NW CORRIDOR'S ABILITY TO ACHIEVE ADVISORY CRITERIA...AND AFTER COORDINATION W/ILX...AM IN AGREEMENT IN DROPPING HEADLINE FOR NW CORRIDOR. REMAINDER OF FA HAS DECENT SHOT AT APPROACHING...IF NOT EXCEEDING CRITERIA...AND WL THEREFORE LET IT LIVE AT LEAST ONE MORE AFTERNOON...PREFERRING THE NATURAL EXPIRATION VERSUS THE CANCELLATION. ONLY OTHER CHOICE WE'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH...THAT BEING UPGRADING ADVISORY...BECAUSE OF SUCH MARGINAL EXPECTATIONS AND ANTICIPATION OF NATURAL EXPIRATION. OTHERWISE THERE IS LTL FCST CHANGE WITH CONT CHC CONVECTION TIL FRONT DROPS SOUTH. MODELS STILL SHOW THAT TO BE THU AS CNTL U.S. RIDGING BUCKLES UPR FLOW ENOUGH TO PUSH IT THRU. RESULT STILL LOOKS LIKE DRIER/COOLER WEEKS END AND THEREFORE WL MAKE ONLY MINOR TWEEKS TO GOING PACKAGE. .PAH...HEAT ADVISORY CONTS MOST OF WKY TODAY. DH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms dumped very heavy rain over the county, with the highest amounts near Crossville. Authorities closed a section of Route 1 near Crossville for a short time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, July 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: 5257736.