4 hail, 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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 14, 3:18 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 418 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 SEVERE WEATHER LIMITING DISCUSSION. STRONG OVERRUNING OF SURFACE BOUNDARY AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE HAS LEAD TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70...AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 75 SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON. MAINLY HAIL BEING REPORTED. UPPER WAVE EJECTING ACROSS CWA DURING THE EVENING WITH MODELS SHOWING LIFT GENERALLY EAST OF CWA BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. WILL KEEP THE SCATTERED STORMS GOING UNTIL THAT TIME...GUIDANCE LOWS IN THE MIDDLE 40S TO LOWER 50S LOOK OK. SUNDAY...BREAK IN ACTION WITH COOLER AIR SETTLLING ACROSS CWA. H850 MB WINDS 25 TO 35 KNOTS IN THE AM...WILL GO BREEZY WITH HIGHS 65 TO 70 MOST AREAS. INCREASING CLOUDS SUNDAY NIGHT. GOING MORE WITH AVN MODEL. NORTHERN STREAM BECOMES ACTIVE AND SWEEPS ACROSS CWA MONDAY. WILL GO WITH SOME 30 TO 40 POPS FOR NOW AND GIVEN H850 MB TEMPS...MENTION SOME FLURRIES POSSIBLE IN THE AM OVER THE FAR NORTHERN COUNTIES. WILL HAVE PRECIP OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL AND FAR NORTHERNN COUNTIES MAINLY IN THE AM. FAVORING MORE OF A COMPROMISE ON HIGHS AND LOWS WITH MAV/FAN. .TOP.K..NONE PF
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
530 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0526 PM ALTA VISTA KS .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 WABAUNSEEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
552 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 4 S ST MARYS KS .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 POTTAWATOMIE
0540 PM ROSSVILLE KS .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 SHAWNEE
0550 PM 3 N TOPEKA KS .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 SHAWNEE
`PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
602 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0554 PM 3 W ESKRIDGE KS 1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 WABAUNSEE
0556 PM 10 N ESKRIDGE KS .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 WABAUNSEE
0600 PM 3 SW TOPEKA KS .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 SHAWNEE
N0602 PM 2 W HARVEYVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 WABAUNSEEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
608 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0607 PM HARVEYVILLE KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 WABAUNSEEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
620 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM PAXICO KS WIND DAMAGE
04/14/01 WABAUNSEE ROOF BLOWN OFF JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL AND POWER
LINES DOWN.
0615 PM 6 N BURLINGAME KS 1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 OSAGEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
635 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0622 PM 6 N BURLINGAME KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 OSAGE
0629 PM ALMA KS .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 WABAUNSEE
0629 PM SCRANTON KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 OSAGE
0634 PM PERRY KS 1 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 JEFFERSONThe Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:37 UTC.
4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm winds damaged 6 mobile homes and blew a shed into a street.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, April 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: 5240463, 5240464, 5240465, 5240466, 5240467.