Flash Flood, Cherokee
- When
- February 23, 11:00 PM CST to February 24, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County, North Portion
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.169, -94.846 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Kansas, February 23 to 24, 2001
Widespread flooding caused numerous roads to close.
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 happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Widespread flooding caused numerous roads to close.
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 23, 10:08 PM CST, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 10:08 PM CST, 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1008 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 ADJUSTED GOING FORECAST TO WORD-SMITH TO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH OVERNIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. STRONG CONVECTION BEGINNING TO ENTER SW MISSOURI ATTM...AND ONE HOURLY PRECIPITATION RATES OVER NE OKLAHOMA FROM KINX 88D AND SFC REPORTS INDICATED RATES FROM A HALF INCH TO INCH PER HOUR. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE AN INCH OR LESS IN A THREE HOUR PERIOD ACROSS THE FAR WEST...AND GENERALLY LOW ELSEWHERE. WENT AHEAD AND EXTENDED FLASH FLOOD WATCH FURTHER NORTH AND EAST BASED ON EXTRAPOLATED MOVEMENT OF CURRENT CONVECTION INTO PORTIONS OF MY NERN CWA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL STILL LOOMS ON THE HORIZON FOR SATURDAY...AS 00Z ETA PROGS INDICATE SOMEWHAT BETTER INSTABILITY. SYNOPTIC WARM FRONT STILL WELL TO THE SOUTH NEAR THE RED RIVER...AND EXPECT A RAPID SURGE IN TEMPERATURES AS THE FRONT LIFTS NWD LATER TONIGHT. TWEAKED OVERNIGHT LOWS DOWN JUST A TAD...BUT ONCE FRONT PASSES THROUGH...TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB RAPIDLY. .SGF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM BRANSON TO MARSHFIELD TO ROLLA. HUDSON
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Avalanche in Wyoming, February 23, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 23, 2001
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Iowa, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 23 to 25, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Illinois, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Iowa, February 23, 2001
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, February 23 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, February 23 to 25, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 23 to 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, February 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: 5234717.