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 Oct 31, 2:25 PM CST, 9 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 225 PM CST WED OCT 31 2001 SATL INDICATED HIGH CLOUDINESS THIS AFTERNOON OVER MO/AR/IA ASSOCIATED WITH A MINOR MID LEVEL TROF. THE TROF IS PROGGED TO DAMP OUT IN ADVANCE OF A LARGER SYSTEM NOW IN THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. WINDS HAVE PICKED UP A BIT THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE TIGHTENING PRES GRADIENT AS THE WESTERN SYSTEM APPROACHES. AVN HAS SHOWN THE MOST CONSISTENCY IN DEPICTING THE MID LEVEL TROF AS IT MAKES ITS WAY ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER OF STATES THRU FRI...DEVELOPING A CLOSED LOW OVER SOUTHERN CANADA. ETA SHOWS THE LOW AS A BIT DEEPER THAN AVN...AND IS WETTER OVERALL. NGM IS BETWEEN THE TWO WITH THE QPF. AGREE WITH NCEP THAT A ETA/AVN QPF COMPROMISE WOULD BE PRUDENT. ALL MODELS ARE SIMILAR IN THE TIMING OF THE MID TROF/SFC FRONT AS IT AFFECTS THE FORECAST AREA THU NITE/FRI. THE PRESENCE OF A HIGH PRES RIDGE IN THE SE US HAS HELPED TO LIMIT AVAILABLE MOISTURE TO SUPPRESS THUNDER CHANCES...BUT PRECIP WILL REMAIN IN THE CHANCE CATEGORY. PLAN TO SLIGHTLY TWEAK UPWARD...AND ADJUST SOME TEMPS SLIGHTLY UPWARD IN THE NEAR TERM. FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD...NORTHWEST UPPER FLOW/SFC HIGH PRES WILL GET ESTABLISHED ACROSS THE FA OVER THE WEEKEND...FOLLOWED BY FLATTENING OF THE RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CONUS. THIS WILL TRANSLATE TO PARTLY CLOUDY/CLEAR SKIES AND SEASONABLE TEMPS. .PAH...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Wabash River crested about half a foot above flood stage at New Harmony on Nov. 2. This resulted in minor flooding of bottomlands and low-lying areas near the river.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, November 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: 5272982.