Flash Flood, Atchison
- When
- June 4, 3:57 AM CST
- Where
- Atchison County, 6 mi W of Cummings
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.532, -95.313 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Several county roads under water due to heavy rains.
Flash Flood in Kansas, June 4, 2001
1 flash flood, 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 1:25 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:25 AM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 225 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 RATHER TOUGH FORECAST. FCST SEEMS TO HINGE LARGELY UPON MOVEMENT OF WARM FRONT...WHICH IS GOING TO BE AWFULLY TRICKY TO FIGURE OUT. 2ND LARGE NIGHTLY MCS IN A ROW MOVING ACROSS CWA AND DROPPING COPIOUS RAINFALL. MOST OF RAIN IS FALLING OVER AREA THAT DID NOT RECEIVE AS MUCH RAIN FROM FIRST MCS. ORIENTATION OF LLJ WILL TEND TO HELP MCS PROPAGATE S AND SE...THOUGH SRN EDGE WILL PROBABLY BE LIMITED BY NRN EDGE OF CAP. WOULD EXPECT MCS TO BE WANING BY SUNRISE THOUGH WILL STILL PROBABLY HAVE SOME +RA ONGOING AT THAT TIME. ONCE MCS DECAYS/MOVES OUT...WILL PROBABLY HAVE A RATHER SIGNIFICANT BREAK IN PCPN BEFORE MCS NUMBER 3 ROLLS IN TONIGHT. SO...SINCE FF THREAT WILL BE PRESENT EARLY AND AGAIN LATE...WILL PROBABLY JUST KEEP FF WATCH GOING...AND MENTION POTENTIAL BREAK IN RAIN. MAKES POPS VERY VERY TOUGH. SO...WHAT WILL THE WARM FRONT DO? MODELS STILL INSISTENT ON BRINGING IT TO AROUND I-70 OR SO. WOULD TEND TO THINK THAT CURRENT MCS WILL REINFORCE COOL AIR AND KEEP WARM FRONT FROM SURGING NORTHWARD. HOWEVER...WATCHING THE STRATUS CLEAR OUT OF SE/SC KS AND WINDS BACK AT CNU MAKES ME WONDER IF MODELS MAYBE HAVE RIGHT SOLUTION. SINCE UPPER LOW IS NOT TERRIBLY PROGRESSIVE...HAVE MY DOUBTS THAT WARM FRONT WILL BE EITHER. THUS...WILL GO WITH MORE CONSERVATIVE FORECAST ON TEMPS AND WILL PROBABLY HOLD OFF ON MENTION OF SVR FOR TONIGHT...SINCE SETUP TONIGHT MAY END UP BEING MORE LIKE CURRENT SCENARIO WHERE BIGGER THREAT IS +RA. IF WARM FRONT SURGES NORTHWARD...AND WARM SECTOR ENDS UP HEATING UP ALONG NRN EDGE OF CAP...SVR WX THREAT WILL BE MUCH HIGHER THAN CURRENTLY ADVERTISED. WILL TRY TO COVER THIS SCENARIO IN HWO. EITHER WAY...SHOULD HAVE MCS NUMBER 3 ROLL THROUGH TONIGHT SO WILL GO WITH AT LEAST LIKELY POPS. BOUNDARY DOESNT CLEAR AREA UNTIL LATE TUESDAY SO CURRENT CHC POPS LOOK FINE...MAY HAVE LINGERING MCS ACTIVITY IN AM ANYWAY. TEMPS ENTIRELY CONTIGENT UPON WARM FRONTAL MOVEMENT. WILL PROBABLY JUST STICK REAL CLOSE TO CURRENT FCST. .EAX... KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES THROUGH TONIGHT. MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES THROUGH TONIGHT. MANION
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:54 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
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 4, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 4 to 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, June 4, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 4, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 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: 5252335.