Flooding in Illinois, June 8 to 17, 2001

Name: Flooding in Illinois, June 8 to 17, 2001
Start: 2001-06-08T14:00
End: 2001-06-17T09:00
Location: Illinois

June 8 to 17, 2001 · NWS PAH · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

Heavy rains across the Missouri River basin and parts of the Mississippi River basin caused rises on the Mississippi River. Thebes crested about 5 feet above flood stage on the 12th.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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.

Heavy rains across the Missouri River basin and parts of the Mississippi River basin caused rises on the Mississippi River. Thebes crested about 5 feet above flood stage on the 12th. The river was slow to fall, finally going below flood stage at Thebes on the 17th. This was short-lived, as another round of heavy rains in the above-mentioned basins caused another crest on the 27th. Thebes crested about a foot below flood stage this time. The first crest on June 12 resulted in moderate flooding that was primarily agricultural.

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 8, 1:02 PM CST, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:02 PM CST, 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
202 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001

19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A WEAK HIGH PRESSURE CENTER OVER THE
NORTHERN PLAINS. PUSH OF SOMEWHAT COOLER AND DRIER AIR HAS REACHED
THE FORECAST AREA. SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE 5 TO 10 DEGREES LOWER THAN
24 HOURS AGO. SURFACE HIGH IS PROGGED TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST OVER
THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY THIS WEEKEND. MODEL TIME HEIGHT CROSS
SECTIONS INDICATE LITTLE IN THE WAY OF CLOUDINESS THROUGH SUNDAY.
OTHER THAN SCATTERED DIURNAL CU...EXPECT MAINLY CLEAR SKIES THROUGH
THE WEEKEND.

FOR TEMPERATURES...NGM/AVN MOS GUIDANCE ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND
WILL FOLLOW. 850 MB TEMP PROGS INDICATE LITTLE CHANGE IN THE AIR
MASS THROUGH SATURDAY. SOME WARMING WILL BEGIN SUNDAY AS
SOUTHWESTERLY RETURN FLOW BEGINS.

FOR MONDAY...THE 12Z AVN SHOWS NO SIGN OF THE GREAT LAKES SURFACE
HIGH AND BACKDOOR COLD FRONT THAT WAS SHOWN 24 HOURS AGO. THE NEW 60
HOUR ETA SEEMS TO BACK UP THE AVN...SO MONDAY NOW LOOKS TO BE DRY.
AVN/MRF HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT IN SHOWING AT LEAST A TEMPORARY BREAK
IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN. BY MID WEEK...EAST COAST RIDGE WILL
RESULT IN SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. HOT AND HUMID
PATTERN WILL BE IN PLACE BY MID WEEK. PRECIP CHANCES WILL INCREASE
WEDNESDAY AS DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW INCREASES THE DEPTH OF THE TROPICAL
MOISTURE. MORE WIDESPREAD CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE LATE IN THE
WEEK..B.DEPENDING ON THE SPEED OF A 500 MB TROUGH MOVING ACROSS THE
NORTHERN STATES FROM THE ROCKIES.

.PAH...NONE.

MY

The radar

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

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Event by event

3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Alexander

When: June 8, 2:00 PM CST to June 17, 9:00 AM 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)

Flood, Jackson

When: June 8, 2:00 PM CST to June 17, 9:00 AM CST
Where: Jackson forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 37.785, -89.382 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Union

When: June 8, 2:00 PM CST to June 17, 9:00 AM CST
Where: Union forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 37.471, -89.255 (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

Every storm in Illinois in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5248573, 5248574, 5248575.