Illinois, 2001

Flood in Illinois, June 10 to 14, 2001

June 10 to 14, 2001 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Backwater on the Ohio River caused the stage at Cairo to rise slightly above flood stage. The backwater was from the Mississippi River, which was above flood stage.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.

Backwater on the Ohio River caused the stage at Cairo to rise slightly above flood stage. The backwater was from the Mississippi River, which was above flood stage. At Cairo, the crest of 40.89 feet occurred at midnight on the 13th. Flood stage is 40 feet.

What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 10, 2:15 AM CST, 8 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:15 AM CST, 8 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
315 AM CDT SUN JUN 10 2001

NEW MODEL DATA CONTINUES CONTINUITY OF PREVIOUS RUNS AND RECENTLY
GOOD PERFORMING ETA/AVN LOOK LIKE THEY LIKEWISE CONTINUE TO
SYNCHRONIZE THEIR GENERAL SOLUTIONS. IR IMAGERY DEPICTS MCS MOVING
INTO UPR MIDWEST...WITH MODELS SHOWING PERHAPS SOME HIGH LEVEL
CLOUDS COULD BLOW OFF THIS SYSTEM AND IMPACT US TODAY. HOWEVER IT
SHOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO HINDER OTHERWISE MOSUNNY SKY. ANOTHER SUCH
SYSTEM WL LIKELY DEVELOP AGAIN MON NIGHT...PROBABLY IN SIMILAR
TERRITORY...WITH LIKELY REPEAT TRAVERSING OF HIGH CLOUDS INTO
OUR FA TUE. MAIN CHANGE FOR US WL BE SLOW BREAKDOWN OF SURFACE
HIGHS INFLUENCE UPON OUR WX NEXT 48 HOURS...WHICH WL ALLOW RETURN
FLOW TO SET UP AND BEGIN TO NUDGE TEMPS/HUMIDITY UPWARD. THIS TREND
IS REFLECTED WELL IN GOING PACKAGE...SO ANTICIPATE LTL OVERALL
CHANGE SAVE FOR MINOR TWEEKS TO COUNTY BREAK-OUTS AND FCST MAX/MINS
(BASED ON LATEST GUIDANCE OUTPUT...WHICH SHOWS LTL DEVIATION BETWEEN
MODELS).

00Z EXTENDED GUIDANCE THAT IS AVAILABLE BASICALLY AFFIRMS GOING
MID-LATE WEEK CHC PCPN PRIOR TO LATE WEEK FROPA. SOME GUIDANCE
INDICATIONS THAT MID-LATE WEEK TEMPS MAY BE ON WARM SIDE OF GOING
RANGES WITH LAST COUPLE RUNS WARMING...BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR ANY
WHOLESALE CHANGES YET.

.PAH...NONE.
HUMPHREY

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Alexander

When
June 10, 11:00 AM CST to June 14, 11:00 PM CST
Where
Alexander forecast zone
Reported by
AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates
37.192, -89.338 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flood
Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Illinois in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, June 2001

Sources

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: 5248563.