1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 16, 2:32 AM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 332 AM CDT MON JUL 16 2001 PRECIPITATION CHANCES TODAY AND TONIGHT MAIN CONCERNS...THEN HOW FAST TEMPERATURES CLIMB. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN ON THE INCREASE SINCE JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL AND NOW SPREADING INTO PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. WARM ADVECTION APPEARS TO BE MAIN CULPRIT HERE BUT UPPER FEATURE OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS MOVING EAST WILL ALSO ADD SOME LIFT FOR REST OF CWA TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. ETA APPEARS TO BE DOING OK JOB AS FAR AS WHERE PRECIP IS NOW. WITH UPPER WAVE MOVING EAST...LIFT BEST FOR THE MORNING HOURS AND WILL KEEP TREND OF GOING FORECAST FOR PRECIP THIS MORNING. FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS...SURFACE DATA SHOWING SOME MOISTURE CONVERGENCE BY LATE AFTERNOON AND WITH HEATING...AND ETA SHOWING SOME QPF...WILL ADD A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS NORTH CENTRAL. TEMPERATURE WISE...GIVEN CLOUDS AND PRECIP WILL CUT READINGS A TAD MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES. FOR MONDAY NIGHT...HAVE A SLIGHT OF THUNDERSTORMS GOING OVER GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AND WILL CONTINUE. STILL HAVE SOME WARM ADVECTION AND THETA E ADVECTION...PLUS MODELS GENERATING MCS FURTHER NORTH AND THIS COULD WORK INTO THESE AREAS ALTHOUGH WARM ADVECTION AND COMPLEX ARE FURTHER NORTH ON THIS MODEL RUN. LOWS IN THE 70 TO 75 RANGE LOOK ON TARGET. ON TUESDAY...UPPER RIDGE OVER CWA AND MODELS WARMING H850 MB TEMPS INTO THE 24 TO 27 DEGREE RANGE. GOING FORECAST OF NEAR 100 LOOKS OK FOR CENTRAL GIVEN EXPECT PLENTY OF SUNSHINE. WILL GO WITH MIDDLE 90S EAST. ETA PUSHING DEWPOINTS UP INTO THE MIDDLE 70S...GIVEN EXPECTED AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES...THIS WOULD PUT HEAT INDICES BACK TO AROUND 105 TO NEAR 110 DEGREES. WILL NOT HAVE HEADLINE AT THIS TIME BUT SOMETHING FOR AFTERNOON PACKAGE. ALSO MAY HAVE A BETTER TREND ON DEWPOINTS. TUESDAY NIGHT...AVN SHOWING IMPULSE COMING OUT OF SOUTHWEST AROUND EDGE OF HIGH AND GENERATING SOME PRECIP TO THE WEST...RH FIELDS INCREASING SOME SO HAVE KEPT THE GOING FORECAST OF PARTLY CLOUDY. AT THIS TIME...NOT EXPECTING ANY BIG CHANGES TO EXTENDED...HOT AND ZDRY MIDWEEK...THEN TRENDING BACK INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S WITH A CHANCE FOR PRECIP ON SUNDAY. .TOP...NONE FRANTZ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Four inches of rain in a short period caused water to overlow U.S. Highway 24 near Belvue for a time.
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, July 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: 5253469.