3 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 12:30 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 130 AM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 BIGGEST CONCERNS ARE PRECIP AND TEMPERATURES. OUTFLO BOUNDARY FM PREVIOUS CONVECTION HAS TRIGGERED BAND OF TSTRMS FM NCNTRL MO TO NERN KS. DESPITE WEAKENING INSTABILITY...MOD/STG SFC-H8 MCONV MAINTAINING STG STORMS. WEAK MID LVL WIND FIELDS TO LIMIT ORGANIZATION WITH A SLOW WEAKENING TREND THIS AM XPCT WITH NOCTURNAL COOLING AND WEAKENING MCONV AND LLJ AS PER ETA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN HEAVY IN NORTHWEST CORNER...HOWEVER XPCT AREA TO INCREASE SE MOVEMENT AND DIMINISH SLIGHTLY THIS AM AS FNT CLEARS AREA EARLY THIS AM. NO FFA EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. CDFNT SURGING SE ACR XTRM NWRN MO WITH VERY STG PRES RISES IN NEB. ETA/AVN SUGGESTING FASTER PROGRESS OF FNT ACR CWA THIS AFTN. PREFER AVN/ETA WITH FNT TO CLR SERN CWA BY EVE. XPCT SCT RW/TRW AHEAD OF FNT THROUGH DAY WITH THREAT OF SVR INCREASING ACR SRN ZONES THIS AFTN WITH LIFTED INDICES FROM -4 TO -6...CAPE FM 2000-2500 J/KG AND WK CAP. SVR THREAT TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AS COOLER AND DRIER AIR FILTERS SOUTH INTO CWA. MODELS CONFIRM LATEST VAPOR IMAGERY WITH NUMEROUS WEAK SHRTWVS TO PROGRESS THROUGH CWA THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS UPR TROF DROPS INTO PLAINS AND WRN GREAT LAKES. HAVE LTL CONFIDENCE IN MDL TIMING AND INTENSITY OF SHRTWVS AS MODELS APPEAR TO EXHIBIT AT LEAST WK CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK. AS PER MOIST IMAGERY...MAIN SHRTWV OF CONCERN IS FM NWRN MONTANA TO SE OREGON. THIS SHRTWV TO AID IN PRECIP DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT INTO WED. SEVERAL VERY WK SHRTWVS WL PRECEDE MAIN TROF. WK H7-H3 LAYER DVG-Q AND WK ISENT LIFT NORTH OF BOUNDARY TO TRIGGER DEVELOPMENT NORTH OF SFC BOUNDARY TONIGHT WITH FORCING DIMINISHING WITH THE PRECIP ENDING FROM THE NORTH TO SOUTH ON WED. AS FAR AS TEMPS ARE CONCERN...FWC LOOKS A LTL WARM FOR DAYTIMES WITH COOLER FAN PREFERRED. MAV GUID LOOKS TOO COLD. .EAX... KhS...NONE. MO...NONE. DB
MOZ001>005-011-012-190700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 200 AM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #450 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR...HOLT... WORTH...ANDREW...HARRISON...GENTRY...ATCHISON AND NODAWAY COUNTIES... HAS EXPIRED. A LARGE AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING FROM NEAR TOPEKA TO PRINCETON IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BE}LOW SEVERE LIMITS THROUGH DAYBREAK. JULY
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-201200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 600 AM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING... FORECAST: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI WILL SPREAD SLOWLY SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. DISCUSSION: A COLD FRONT IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEMS WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT THROUGH TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL LIKELY DESTABILIZE SUFFICIENTLY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BE LOCATED NEAR A KANSAS CITY TO MOBERLY LINE BY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. OUTLOOK: THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. DB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Major flooding at the Delaware River in Muscotah and northern portions of the Stranger Creek basin. Rains in excess of 10 inches, fell over portions of Atchison county. Bridge over Stranger Creek in south central Atchison county had severe damage.
Record flood for Stranger Creek at Easton. More than 10 inches of rain was reported in the headwaters of Stranger Creek in Atchison county. Major flooding was experienced south of Easton into Tonganoxie. The crest at Easton was 25.90 feet or 8.90 feet above flood stage. Extensive damage was found in Easton. In addition...a bridge crossing the creek near Linwood was destroyed. Also several roads were washed out.
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, June 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: 5253771, 5253772, 5253773.