1 flash 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 21, 5:02 PM CST, 6 hours 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 602 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001 ...MESOSCALE UPDATE... MAIN FOCUS FOR TSTMS OVR NEXT FEW HRS WL BE ALG WFNT CURRENTLY EXTENDING FM NR SLN TO JUST S OF RSL. THE FNT CONTS TO MOVE TO THE N. MOST IMPORTANTLY THE HILLSBORO PROFILER/RASS SOUNDING SHOWS STG CAP. THIS IS CONSISTANT WITH BOTH LAPS SOUNDINGS. RADAR TRENDS ALSO SIMILAR WITH WEAK DVLPMT ALG FNT IN CNTRL KS BUT WITH MOST/STONGEST TSTMS TO THE NE WHERE CAP IS WEAKER. WHILE CANNOT RUN OUT AN ISOLATED/BRIEF STG/SVR TSTM IN CNTRL KS THRU SUNSET...BELIEVE BETTER CHC WL BE LATER TONIGHT AS LLVL JET KICKS IN AND SOME COOLING ALF. HOWEVER THE BIG QUESTION THEN IS WHERE WL THE FNT BE LOCATED? IF 12Z MODELS ARE CORRECT MUCH OF ACTIVITY WL END UP N OF OUR FCST AREA. THE ONLY OTHER CHC WOULD BE IF TSTMS DVLP ALG RETREATING DRYLN TO THE W AND THEN MOVE INTO THE AREA...BUT AGAIN THAT WOULD LKLY BE MUCH LATER TNGT. HOWERTON
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1232 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM BLACK WOLF KS 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 ELLSWORTH REPORTED BY ELLSWORTH SHERIFFS
OFFICE.
0803 PM 10 N KANOPOLIS KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 ELLSWORTH REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE AT
INTERSTATE 70 AND HIGHWAY 156.
0815 PM 12 NE KANOPOLIS KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 ELLSWORTH REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER IN RURAL
NORTHEAST ELLSWORTH COUNTY.
0823 PM WESTFALL KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 LINCOLN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0835 PM 2 S ALBERT KS 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0838 PM 2 N ALBERT KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY EOC.
0845 PM ALBERT KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0845 PM OTIS KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0845 PM 3 W OLMIT KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER.
0850 PM OLMITZ KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY OLMITZ FIRE DEPT.
0900 PM 1 W HOISINGTON KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0915 PM HOISINGTON KS TORNADO
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER AND
ELLSWORTH DISPATCH. NUMEROUS
INJURIES AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
0915 PM 2 NE HOISINGTON KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER
0920 PM 7 N CLAFFLIN KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER.
0937 PM 1 W SUSANK KS TORNADO
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0958 PM 2 NE HITSCHMANN KS 0.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 BARTON REPORTED BY 911.
1015 PM 7 SW ELLSWORTH KS TORNADO
04/21/01 ELLSWORTH REPORTED BY KRSL RADIO.
1020 PM 3 NE WILSON KS 1.50 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 ELLSWORTH REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER.
1028 PM 16 SW RUSSELL KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 RUSSELL REPORTED BY AGTAP SPOTTER.
1044 PM 8 N ELLSWORTH KS TORNADO
04/21/01 ELLSWORTH LARGE TORNADO REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS METEOROLOGIST AT HIGHWAY 14 AND
INTERSTATE 70 ALONG
ELLSWORTH/LINCOLN COUNTY LINE.
1051 PM RUSSELL KS 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 RUSSELL REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR.
1053 PM RUSSELL KS 0.88 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 RUSSELL REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
1058 PM 3 S LINCOLN KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01 LINCOLN REPORTED BY LINCOLN COUNTY 911.
1115 PM 7 S LINCOLN KS TORNADO
04/21/01 LINCOLN REPORTED BY LINCOLN COUNTY DISPATCH.
SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ALSO
REPORTED.
HYSELLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1237 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
HYSELLThe Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:42 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several streets across hoisington and Highway 281 were inundated with water.
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: 5256818.