5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 1:59 AM CST, 9 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 259 AM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE THIS CYCLE IS PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT. 00Z MAPS HAD 250MB JET ACROSS NORTHERN OREGON INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES WITH 100KT CORE PUSHING SHORTWAVE TROUGH THROUGH THE DAKOTAS. WESTERN CONUS RIDGING BEGINNING TO TAKE HOLD WITH ALL UPPER AIR STATIONS FROM DDC WEST RECORDING 20M OR GREATER HEIGHT RISES. CENTRAL CONUS LOW LEVEL BAROCLINIC ZONES BECOMING QUITE ILL DEFINED HOWEVER 850MB DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN THE MID TEENS CELSIUS FROM NEBRASKA SOUTH. LATEST SURFACE DATA PUTS FRONT FROM NORTHEASTERN COLORADO THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS WITH MID TO UPPER 60F DEWPOINTS OVER MUCH OF THE HIGH PLAINS. STRATUS FROM DIURNAL COOLING WAS OVERSPREADING THE CWA. MORNING STRATUS AND FOG SHOULD BURN AWAY AS LOWER LEVELS HEAT UP. WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW AND EARLY CLOUD COVER SHOULD KEEP HIGHS A BIT BELOW THEIR 850MB TEMP SUGGESTED POTENTIAL AND GOING FORECAST HAS THIS HANDLED. MOIST SOUTHEAST FLOW TODAY WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT INSTABILITY INTO THE NORTHERN COLORADO/SOUTHERN WYOMING VICINITY AND CONVECTION SHOULD BEGIN HERE BY LATE AFTERNOON. LOW LEVEL JET SHOULD SET UP OVER EASTERN COLORADO/WESTERN KANSAS TONIGHT ON WEST SIDE OF WEAK 850MB HIGH. THINK MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM WILL MAKE ITS WAY SOUTH/SOUTHEAST TONIGHT WITH PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND SOME UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE/DIVERGENCE IN PLACE. AVN AND ETA APPEAR TO AGREE AND PRODUCE CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK VORTICITY MAXIMA OVER AREA. EXPECT BULK OF PRECIPITATION TO TRAVERSE SOUTH ALONG THE KS/CO BORDER WITH 850MB EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE NOSE AND BAR0CLINIC ZONE, 700MB 10C TEMP LINE, AND BEST LOW LEVEL INFLOW HERE. WILL KEEP POPS BELOW LIKELY LEVELS IN THE WEST FOR NOW AND GRADIENT TO 20 POPS IN THE EAST. WARMING ALOFT SHOULD KEEP ANY STORMS BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. DEPENDING ON MCS'S SPEED AND SIZE, MAY SEE SOME LINGERING MORNING PRECIPITATION ON FRIDAY, BUT WILL KEEP IT DRY AT THIS TIME. UPPER RIDGING TO CONTINUE TO WARM THE MID LEVELS AND BRING A SLIGHT WARMUP TO HIGH TEMPS. NO CHANGES TO GOING EXTENDED FORECAST. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 082/063 083/061 086 031 GCK 081/062 083/060 088 05- EHA 084/061 087/061 092 051 LBL 083/062 085/063 090 051 HYS 078/060 080/059 086 020 P28 086/065 086/065 088 02- .DDC...NONE. POAGE/JOHNSON
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Brief contact with the ground from this landspout.
Water over highway 22 to the Hamilton county line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 2001Warnings 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: 5255851, 5255845, 5255846, 5255847, 5255848, 5255849, 5255850.