Heavy Rain, Norton
- When
- April 22, 11:50 PM MST
- Where
- Norton County, 4 mi E of Norton
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.784, -99.903 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Restricted visibilities on route 36.
Heavy Rain in Kansas, April 22, 2001
1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 7:15 PM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 7:15 PM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
815 PM MDT SUN APR 22 2001
UPDATE NEEDED TO LOWER HIGH WIND WARNING TO WIND ADVISORY FOR THE
ENTIRE CWA. UPPER LOW PRESSURE CENTER CURRENTLY MOVING TOWARD KLBF
WITH WRAPAROUND SNOW AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS CONTINUING OVER YUMA
AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES OF COLORADO. NORTHWEST WINDS ON THE BACKSIDE
OCCASIONALLY REACHING 40 KTS AND RUCII FORECASTS SUGGEST WINDS WILL
NOT GET ANY HIGHER. FOR THOSE REASONS I'M LOWERING THE HIGH WIND
WARNING TO A WIND ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT. OTHER THAN THAT...
ADJUSTED LOWS DOWN A CAT PER CURRENT OBS. NO OTHER CHANGES MADE.
.GLD...BLIZZARD WARNING FOR YUMA AND KIT CARSON kCOUNTIES OF COLORADO
UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT.
WIND ADVISORY FOR THE ENTIRE CWA UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT (1 AM
CDT).
THEDEThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, April 22 to 23, 2001
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, April 22 to 23, 2001
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 22 to 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, April 22, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 22, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, April 22 to 23, 2001
- High Wind in Texas, April 22, 2001
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, April 22 to 23, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, April 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: 5243014.