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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 1:31 AM CST, 10 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 230 AM CDT WED JUL 18 2001 ...MAIN CONCERNS ARE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CWA THIS MORNING AND AGAIN TONIGHT THEN OF COURSE THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY... LOOKING AT RADAR TRENDS WILL CONTINUE HEAT WARNING TO THE SOUTH OF A DONIPHAN TO CALDWELL TO HOWARD LINE...REMOVING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MO. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. WITH CLOUD DEBRIS AROUND...THE NORTHERN PART OF THIS WARNING WILL HAVE SOME CHANCE OF NOT REACHING CRITERIA BUT TOO CLOSE TO PULL WARNING AT THIS TIME. AREA OF STRONG CONVECTION CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN CWA AT 05Z WITH ADDITIONAL STORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LLJ CRANKING TO 30 TO 35 KNOTS OVER EASTERN KS HELPING SUPPORT FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. MODELS SHOWING WIDELY VARYING SOLUTIONS TONIGHT WITH MESO ETA INDICATING NO PRECIP DEVELOPING UNTIL AFTER 09Z...AVN HAS ALL PRECIP OVER NORTHEAST CWA AND NGM ONLY MODEL WITH PRECIP WHERE IT IS CURRENTLY AT. MESO-ETA THEN PUSHES A FAIRLY STRONG BOUNDARY BACK TO THE WEST...INTO CENTRAL NE THROUGH 12Z ...KEEPING PRECIP IN CWA ALL MORNING. WHILE THIS A LITTLE UNUSUAL I THINK THE GENERAL TREND OF CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT TO OUR WEST IS A LIKELY SCENARIO. CORFIDI VECTORS SUGGEST THAT MOVEMENT SHOULD BECOME MORE SOUTHERLY AS TIME GOES ON SO WILL WATCH FOR THIS TREND TO DEVELOP. THUS FAR MAINLY AN EASTERLY MOVEMENT. POPS FOR TODAY WILL BE DECIDED NEAR ISSUANCE TIME. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO BUILD SOUTH HEAT ADVISORY FOR ALL BUT SOUTHWEST CWA MAY BE IN DANGER. NORTHEAST CWA DID NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA YESTERDAY AND LIKELY WILL NOT TODAY SO WILL LEAVE THEM OUT OF ANY ADVISORY TODAY. WILL MAKE DECISION ON HEAT WARNING FOR SOUTHWEST TWO THIRDS OF CWA AS THUNDERSTORM PICTURE UNFOLDS. AGAIN...WITH SUCH HIGH DEW POINTS WE ONLY NEED A TEMPERATURE OF AROUND 90 TO PUSH THE HEAT INDEX ABOVE 105 SO A BIT OF A DIFFICULT CALL IF CLOUDS WILL BE AROUND ALL MORNING. CANNOT TAKE POPS OUT OF NORTHERN HALF OF CWA TONIGHT AS BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS AND LLJ WILL LIKELY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. SOUTHWEST CWA STILL REMAINS LEAST LIKELY TO SEE ORGANIZED CONVECTION AND WILL PROBABLY LEAVE A SILENT 20 IN THERE. FOR FRIDAY...MORE HEAT AND HUMIDITY BUT CLOUDS AND PRECIP LIKELY TO MAKE DECISION TOUGH. WILL PROBABLY GO WITH A HEAT WARNING OVER THE SOUTHWEST THIRD OF CWA IF ONE IS ISSUED FOR TODAY. WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. .EAX... MO...SOUTH OF A BUCHANAN TO CALDWELL TO HOWARD LINE... KS...ALL ZONES...
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-200300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 900 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 590 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN KANSAS...LEAVENWORTH...WYANDOTTE AND JOHNSON IN MISSOURI...PLATTE...CLAY...JACKSON...CALDWELL...RAY...LAFAYETTE... JOHNSON...PETTIS...SALINE...HOWARD AND COOPER. DB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1203 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
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1130 PM ST JOSEPH MO 58 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 BUCHANAN REPORTED BY MEDIA.KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-201100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 100 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 FORECAST: THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. LOCATIONS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ATCHISON KANSAS TO KIRKSVILLE HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SEE THESE STORMS. THE MAJORITY OF THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...HOWEVER ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE WINDS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT WILL BE IN EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE OVERNIGHT STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL ALSO BE A PROBLEM AS HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED 105 DEGREES AGAIN SOUTH OF A TROY KANSAS TO CARROLLTON TO FAYETTE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL PUT A BRIEF DAMPER ON THE WARMUP...HOWEVER AFTER THE STORMS PASS CONDITIONS SHOULD AGAIN BECOME HOT AND MUGGY. DISCUSSION: A DISTURBANCE AND SURFACE BOUNDARY CAUSED BY LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION WILL BE THE CAUSE FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTION TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...HOT AND MUGGY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. ALTHOUGH LATE NIGHT AND MORNING THUNDERSTORMS COULD CREATE ENOUGH CLOUD COVER TO KEEP AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES BELOW 100 DEGREES. WITH THE VERY HIGH DEW POINTS...THE ACTUAL TEMPERATURE WILL ONLY NEED TO CLIMB INTO THE LOWER 90S FOR IT TO FEEL LIKE 110 DEGREES. OUTLOOK: THE POTENTIAL FOR HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO THE WEEKEND. THERE MAY BE A BRIEF BREAK IN THE HEAT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR RESIDUAL CLOUD COVER. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/EAX LVQ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding was again reported on Stranger Creek near Easton.
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: 5258587.