1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 7, 1:55 AM CST, 9 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 255 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 THE MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM CONTINUES TO BE POPS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE MODELS HAVE ALL TRENDED SLOWER WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE OVER THE WEEKEND...BRINGING IT THROUGH SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT INSTEAD OF ON SATURDAY AS WAS PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. THE UPPER-LEVEL PATTERN IS A LITTLE MORE COMPLEX THAN PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED. THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE UPPER-RIDGE OVER THE EAST COAST IS TOUGHER AND IS FORCING ENERGY ROTATING THROUGH THE DEVELOPING CENTRAL U.S. TROUGH TO TAKE MORE OF A NORTHERLY PATH...GENERALLY TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. FINALLY ON SUNDAY THE MOTHER LODE COMES ACROSS THE AREA WITH A STRONG LIKELIHOOD OF WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION. IN THE MEANTIME...A MID/UPPER LEVEL VORTICITY MAXIMUM OVER ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TODAY...ENHANCING DIURNAL CONVECTION. WILL SPRINKLE 40 TO 50 POPS ACROSS THE AREA FOR SCATTERED CONVECTION TODAY. A 30-40KT LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...BUT THERE IS LITTLE ASSOCIATED CONVERGENCE. WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES PUSHING 2 INCHES LITTLE FORCING WILL BE NEEDED TO INITIATE CONVECTION. WILL KEEP 20-30 POPS IN ALL AREAS TONIGHT. ON SATURDAY THE AVN ROTATES A SHORT-WAVE TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER QUICKLY INTO WISCONSIN...WHILE DRAGGING THE TAIL END OF THE SURFACE TROUGH INTO THE NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA BY MIDDAY. THE MESOETA IS FASTER AND FURTHER NORTHWEST WITH THIS SYSTEM. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THE AVN IS ADVERTISING CONSIDERABLE QPF FOR SATURDAY...WHILE THE MESOETA IS SPOTTIER WITH ITS QPF. THE MAV POPS FOR SATURDAY ARE ONLY IN THE GOOD CHANCE CATEGORY...SO WILL SIDE WITH THE DRIER ETA. SATURDAY NIGHT A WEAKER LOW-LEVEL JET WILL NOSE INTO THE AREA CREATING SOME 850MB CONVERGENCE. IN ADDITION THERE WILL BE SOME MINOR UPPER-LEVEL SUPPORT WITH A DISTURBANCE ROTATING OUT AHEAD OF THE MOTHER SYSTEM...THEREFORE WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS GOING ALL ZONES FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. WILL CONTINUE THE PREVIOUS TREND OF PLACING HIGHEST POPS TO THE WEST NEAREST THE BETTER FLOW ALOFT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A RENEGADE STORM APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS THE NEXT COUPLE OF AFTERNOONS WITH THE AVN ADVERTISING -4 TO -6 LIS ACROSS THE AREA. ALSO THE HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL LIKELY RESULT IN LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS...BUT WITH STRENGTHENING SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...THE STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING FAST ENOUGH TO LIMIT THE FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL. THE FRONT SHOULD COME THROUGH MOST OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY...WITH THE MAIN MID/UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH PASSING BY SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS IN ALL AREAS FOR SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT AND WILL LEAVE A LINGERING CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA ON MONDAY. CLEARING SHOULD BEGIN FROM WEST TO EAST ON MONDAY. INTO THE EXTENDED...NO CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED BEYOND MONDAY. DRY PACIFIC HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD DOMINATE THE REGION THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. HIGH TEMPERATURES OF LATE HAVE BEEN RUNNING A FEW DEGREES ABOVE THE WARMEST GUIDANCE...SO WILL GENERALLY STAY AT OR A BIT ABOVE WARMEST GUIDANCE FOR HIGHS AND LOWS THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST. GUIDANCE LOWS SATURDAY NIGHT SEEM ESPECIALLY LOW WITH CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER AND SOME WIND POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. .PAH...NONE. DRS
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-071900- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1106 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 THIS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. IT IS VALID UNTIL 600 AM SATURDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN A VERY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH THE PROBABILITY INCREASING FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA. WIND SHEAR...LIFT AND INSTABILITY ARE WEAK...SO NO ORGANIZED SEVERE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED. AS USUAL...THE POTENTIAL FOR A STORM OR TWO TO BRIEFLY PULSE TO SEVERE LIMITS IS ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY. THE MAIN THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE REMAINS VERY DEEP...SO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES TO BE A POSSIBILITY. NO MAJOR FLOODING PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED HOWEVER...AS STORMS WILL NOT BE SLOW MOVING OR STATIONARY. STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE TOWARD THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. JAP
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:12 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees and power lines were blown down on U.S. Highway 45.
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, September 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: 5265233.