12 hail, 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 22, 1:10 AM CST, 10 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 210 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 FCST FOCUS ON INTENSE UPPER SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SYNOPTIC SCALE WINDS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TODAY. WILL USE A BLEND OF MODELS THIS TIME AROUND. LATEST WATER VAPOR SHOWS UPPER SYSTEM NOW BOTTOMING OUT JUST SOUTH OF THE FOUR CORNERS WITH UPPER COLD FRONT NOW MOVING INTO THE HIGH PLAINS OF NM AND COLO. MEANWHILE...CONTINUED 850-700MB WAA ALONG WITH INCREASING UPPER DIV CONTINUES TO DRIVE THE CONVECTION ACROSS CENTRAL KS...WHILE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KS REMAIN EFFECTIVELY CAPPED. BASED ON SATELLITE TRENDS WOULD EXPECT MID LEVEL COOLING AND ASSOCIATED STORM DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR SOMETIME BETWEEN 9AM AND 1 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL. 850-700MB DIRECTIONAL SHEAR AND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE FORCING WOULD SUGGEST LINEAR STORM STRUCTURE WITH DAMAGING WINDS ONCE AGAIN A BIG THREAT WITH 60-70KT OF 850MB FLOW. WILL OBVIOUSLY WORD POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE...BUT WILL ALSO HOIST A STRONGLY WORDED WIND ADVISORY DUE TO THE EXTREME GRADIENT WINDS. TONIGHT...EXPECT BROKEN SQUALL LINE TO RACE EASTWARD INTO EASTERN KS THIS EVENING...WHILE ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN WILL BE UNDER THE UPPER LOW/COLD POOL ACROSS CENTRAL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KS. WILL WORD SLIGHT CHCS FOR EVENING STORMS SOUTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...AND WILL GO 40-50 POPS SE THIS EVENING. MONDAY AND BEYOND...ROCKIES RIDGE WITH MEAN LONGWAVE TROUGH ACROSS THE EAST WILL PRODUCE MORE TRANQUIL WX ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEK. NO CHANGES PLANNED... FCSTID = 11 ICT 76 46 61 40 / 70 30 0 0 HUT 76 45 62 38 / 70 30 0 0 EWK 76 46 62 40 / 70 30 0 0 EQA 76 47 61 40 / 70 30 0 0 WLD 77 48 63 41 / 70 30 0 0 RSL 72 40 61 38 / 70 20 0 0 GBD 73 41 61 38 / 70 20 0 0 SLN 73 45 60 39 / 70 30 0 0 MPR 75 46 61 40 / 70 30 0 0 CFV 77 50 63 40 / 70 50 0 0 CNU 77 50 62 40 / 70 50 0 0 K88 77 50 61 40 / 70 50 0 0 .ICT...WIND ADVISORY TODAY FOR ZONES KSZ032>033...KSZ047>053...KSZ067>072...KSZ082>083...KSZ091>096...KSZ0 98>100.
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:47 UTC.
12 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Runoff from the torrential rains of the previous night's severe convection resulted in the flash flooding of Blood Creek 1 mile south of Hoisington. Highway 281 was barricaded throughout this period with flood waters reaching depths of 2 feet.
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: 5236129, 5236009, 5236010, 5236011, 5236120, 5236121, 5236122, 5236123, 5236124, 5236125, 5236126, 5236127, 5236128.