1 flood, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 13, 1:55 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 255 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 CONCERNS FOR THIS FORECAST CONTINUE TO INVOLVE WIDESPREAD RAINS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED HEAVIER CELLS HAS ENGULFED THE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON...BUT NO LIGHTNING STRIKES HAVE BEEN NOTED. ALREADY THIS AFTERNOON...HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER POLES DOWNED WITH WIND GUSTS OF ONLY 35 TO 40 MPH...IN AN AREA OF ENHANCED RAINFALL ACROSS WILLIAMSON COUNTY ILLINOIS. THE MODELS DO NOT INDICATE MUCH IF ANY INSTABILITY FOR THIS SYSTEM TO WORK WITH...SO SHOULD NOT SEE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS...BUT MORE LIKELY RAIN WITH AN OCCASSIONAL RUMBLE OF THUNDER. IN THE ABSENCE OF THUNDER AND ASSOCIATED HIGH RAINFALL RATES...WILL NOT ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME DESPITE ONE-HOUR FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES IN THE 1 TO 1.5 INCH RANGE ACROSS THE AREA. STRONG GRADIENT WINDS GUSTING UP TO 40 MPH AT TIMES...COUPLED WITH THE PERSISTENT RAINS ARE CAUSING PROBLEMS AS MENTIONED ABOVE...BUT THIS SHOULD DIE DOWN LATER THIS AFTERNOON. SEE NO REASON TO MENTION SEVERE WORDING IN ZONES AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN ALL BUT FAR WESTERN ZONE GROUP. THE MODELS ALL BRING AN END TO THE RAIN FROM WEST TO EAST TONIGHT. WITH FAR WESTERN ZONES SEEING ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE AVN IS SLIGHTLY SLOWER THAN THE MESOETA IN THE DRYING AND CLEARING PROCESS. BUT EITHER WAY IT WILL BE PARLTY CLOUDY TO MOSTLY SUNNY TOMORROW. JUST TO BE SAFE WILL MENTION A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS EARLY IN EASTERN ZONES TOMORROW...JUST IN CASE THE SLOWER AVN SOLUTION IS NOT SLOW ENOUGH. THE MODELS ALL ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN BRINGING DOWN AN IMPULSE IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. LOW-LEVEL WARM ADVECTION IS LEADING THE MODELS TO GENERATE PRECIPITATION WITH THIS SYSTEM AND MAV/FAN GUIDANCE BELIEVES IT. WILL INTRODUCE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS SYSTEM WILL ALSO USHER IN A RE-ENFORCING BLAST OF COOL CANADIAN AIR FOR TUESDAY. THE FORECAST WILL REMAIN DRY FROM TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WITH A GENERAL WARMING TREND THROUGH THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK. IN GENERAL...STAYED WITHIN THE RANGE OF AVAILABLE GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST. .PAH...NONE. DRS
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-132000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1245 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA... THREATS... OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE REGION TODAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ENCOMPASSES THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION...WITH DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. DISCUSSION... A VIGOROUS MID AND UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AT THE SURFACE A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH EASTWARD TO NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BY EARLY EVENING AND THROUGH THE REST OF THE QUAD-STATE REGION BY MIDNIGHT. VERY STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WITH SOME GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE WITHOUT THUNDERSTORMS PRESENT. ANY ADDITIONAL DOWNBURT WINDS FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS ENVIRONMENT WILL CREATE THE POSSIBILITY FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THE LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION AND ASSOCIATED CLOUD COVER EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE ENTIRE AREA THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND THEREFORE HAIL IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. THE STRONG SOUTH WINDS HAVE BROUGHT CONSIDERABLE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE AREA WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AT LEAST AN INCH ARE EXPECTED...BUT ISOLATED LOCATIONS MAY RECEIVE UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 45 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE...PRIMARILY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE ENTIRE QUAD-STATE AREA. DRS
ILZ075>078-081>083-085>087-089>091-094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022- 132200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 215 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 ...LOCAL WIND GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE WITH RAIN THIS AFTERNOON... AT 2 PM...A NARROW...BUT INTENSE BAND OF SHOWERS...WERE LOCATED FROM CLINTON KENTUCKY...NORTH TO KARNAK...BENTON AND MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS. ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THIS RAIN...STRONG WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED TO OCCUR. THESE WINDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...BUT DUE TO STRONG WINDS ALOFT BEING DIRECTED TOWARD THE GROUND. THESE WIND GUSTS WILL LIKELY BUFFET AND TOSS LOOSE OBJECTS LEFT OUTDOORS...AS WELL AS BREAK TREE LIMBS. THESE WINDS MAY ALSO CAUSE TREES...POWER LINES AND OTHER STRUCTURES...WEAKENED BY RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL TO TOPPLE OVER. SHORTLY BEFORE 2 PM...ILLINOIS STATE POLICE REPORTED 4 TO 5 POWER POLES DOWN ALONG ROUTE 13...NEAR THE JACKSON...WILLIAMSON COUNTY BORDER. SEVERAL REPORTS OF TREES DOWN WERE ALSO RECEIVED IN THE SAME AREA. A PEAK WIND GUSTS OF 39 MPH WAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY SERVICES IN MARION ILLINOIS. THIS RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WILL MOVE NEAR AN ALBION ILLINOIS TO MURRAY KENTUCKY LINE BY 4 PM...THEN ONWARD TO PRINCETON INDIANA...CADIZ KENTUCKY LINE THROUGH 5PM. PERSONS TRAVELING ACROSS SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD REMAIN AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
An extended period of showers and thunderstorms caused minor flooding of some roadways. Problem spots were on Illinois Routes 37 and 169. The roads remained passable.
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, October 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: 5269968.