Flash Flood, Johnson
- When
- June 5, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County, Overland Park
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.884, -94.822 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rains closed Antioch and 105th St with flooding.
Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 5, 2001
2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 2
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 5, 2:30 PM CST, 8 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:30 PM CST, 8 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 330 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 DEFINING BNDRYS WILL BE THE MAIN CHALLENGE NEXT 2 DAYS COUPLED WITH DVLPG NW MID/UPR LVL FLOW. THESE WILL HAVE TRICKLE DN EFFECT ON PCPN CHCS AND TEMPS. ERYR OUTFLOW BNDRY FM MRNG CNVTN MOVD S INTO SRN CWA WHERE CNVTN COMING UP FM S CNTRL/SE KS MOVD ALG DURG THE AFTN. LTST STLT IMAGERY INDCS THIS BNDRY FALLING APART WHILE INVERTED SFC TROF FM S CNTRL THRU NE KS BGNG TO SHOW SOME WDLY SCT CNVTN. AMS RATHER SOUPY AND MDTLY UNSTBL...WITH BEST POOLING OF H8 MSTR/PW PROGD ACRS SRN TIER CNTYS IN CWA. DUE TO 3 HR FFG VALUES AOB 1.5 THIS AREA AND PRESENCE OF BNDRY/POOLG OF LLVL MSTR FEEL IT BEST TO GO WITH FLASH FLOOD ADV FOR TNGT. COORD WITH STL/TOP ON THIS. ABV MENTIONED INVERTED SFC TROF SHUD ALSO BEAR WATCHING FOR SCT EVE CNVTN. SFC DWPTS IN THE 60S AND NO FROPA INDC MINS SHUD END UP CLOSER TO FWC. WK BNDRYS STILL IN THE AREA THRU WED AND MSTR CONTENT AND INSTBY RMN FVRBL ENUF TO WARRANT LOW CHC POPS. TEMPS CONT TO BE A PROBLEM AS EXTV CLDNS HAS MADE IT DFCLT TO WRM MOST AREAS. THINK THERE WILL BE MORE SUN TMRW SO WILL FAVOR WRMR FWC. WAS THINKING OF KEEPING THU DRY BUT MESO ETA HAS FOR THE LAST CPL OF RUNS DVLPD WAA CNVTN OVR ERN NEB WED NGT/THU MRNG...THEN ROLL IT SEWD UNDER NWLY FLOW ALOFT. AVN NOW LOOKING MORE LIKE ETA MODEL. NWLY FLOW REGIME ALWAYS BEARS WATCHING...SPCLY WHEN BNDRYS ARE PRESENT IN A WKLY CAPPED ENVIRONMENT. SO AM INCLINED TO MENTION LOW CHC POPS ON THU FOR ALL BUT SRN TIER OF CNTYS. MAX TEMPS SHUD INCH UP CLOSE TO SEASONAL NORMS. WILL KEEP EXTDD FCST DRY AS MID/UPR LVL RDG OVR THE CNTRL RCKYS MOVS EWD INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS. .EAX... KS...FLASH FLOOD TONIGHT KSZ057-060. MO...FLASH FLOOD TONIGHT MOZ040-043>046-053>054. JULY
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:50 UTC.
Event by event
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Wyandotte
- When
- June 5, 11:41 PM CST
- Where
- Wyandotte County, Kansas City
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 39.115, -94.764 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Emergency manager reported rapidly running water at Free St. and Marty, affecting railroad tracks in that location.
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
- Tropical Storm in Texas, June 5 to 10, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 5 to 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 14, 2001
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 8, 2001
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 5 to 7, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 5 to 6, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, June 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in West Virginia, June 5, 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: 5252333, 5252334.