Flash Flood in Iowa, June 13 to 14, 2001

Name: Flash Flood in Iowa, June 13 to 14, 2001
Start: 2001-06-13T22:30
End: 2001-06-14T02:00
Location: Iowa

June 13 to 14, 2001 · NWS DMX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

For the second night in a row Emmet County was hit by heavy rains. Severe thunderstorms formed to the west of the area and moved into Emmet County by the late evening hours.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: $10,000
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 DMX wrote it up.

For the second night in a row Emmet County was hit by heavy rains. Severe thunderstorms formed to the west of the area and moved into Emmet County by the late evening hours. The thunderstorm trained across the county for several hours, leaving behind another 2 to 4 inches of rain on top of the 3 inches that fell the previous day. Flash flooding occurred around the county with several roads being closed by the flooding. Conditions improved within a few hours of the end of the heavy rainfall.

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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 4:57 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 4:57 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
557 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

PER SELS DISC, XPCT 427 TO BE DROPPED BY 00Z.  AL ALSO DROP FFA FOR
ENTIRE CWA ATTM.  UPDTS SHUD BE OUT DURG THE NXT HR.

.DSM...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT OVER ENTIRE CWA.
MS JUN 01

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:32 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
632 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....e

1215 PM    2 SE COOPER               IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   GREENE                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:14 PM CST, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1114 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1101 PM    6 NW DENISON              IA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/01   CRAWFORD                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

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

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Emmet

When: June 13, 10:30 PM CST to June 14, 2:00 AM CST
Where: Emmet County, Countywide
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: $10,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 43.378, -94.678 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Iowa in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Iowa, 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: 5246713.