Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8, 2001

Name: Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8, 2001
Start: 2001-06-08T03:58
End: 2001-06-08T07:55
Location: Kansas

June 8, 2001 · NWS ICT · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 2:30 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:30 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
330 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2001

SYNOPSIS:
LARGE SFC-850MB HIGHS SETTLING SE INTO NRN/CNTRL PLNS TO CONT DRIFTING
SE TODAY, EVENTUALLY COVERING CNTRL/SE PLNS BY SAT. SFC HIGH DISPLACED
SUFF E TO ALLOW AN ALREADY MSTR-LADEN LWR AIRMASS TO BECOME EVEN MORE
SO. DUE IN NO SMALL PART TO WEAK NW MID-UPR FLOW INDUCED BY LARGE UP-
STAIRS HIGH PARKED OVER DESERT SW, CLUSTER OF TSTRMS OCRG ACRS NW SXN
ALONG & W OF LINE FM LINCOLN-LYONS INCRG IN BOTH COVERAGE & INTENSITY
AS IT CREEPS SE INTO RICH MSTR ENTRENCHED ACRS SC KS. POP GRADIENT TO
NO DOUBT REFLECT THIS WITH GREATEST THREAT ACRS CNTRL & SC KS. WITH
SLOW SE MOVEMENT, SOME AREAS SURE TO RECEIVE HEFTY RAINFALL. THIS WAS
CASE YESTERDAY AS MCCONNELL RECEIVED JUST OVER 2 (IN STARK CONTRAST
TO KICT WITH 0.03).

TODAY:
PER THE ABOVE REASONING, AM FOLLOWING AVN QPF PAT BY RUNNING LIKELY
POPS CNTRL & SC WITH GENERIC CHC FOR SE DUE TO SLOW SE MOVEMENT. PRE-
SENCE OF TSRA TO WREAK HAVOC WITH MAXES. FOR NOW WL RUN 80-85F WITH
SC & SE ON WARMER SIDE OF FENCE.

TNGT:
WITH ABOVE-MENTIONED HIGHS BECOMING MORE DOMINANT (ESPECIALLY ALONG
ERN CORRIDOR) BEST SHOT FOR TSRA OCCURS ALONG FRONT RANGE AS AVN
CLEARLY DEPICTS. SOAKED GROUNDS COUPLED WITH LGT WIND WARRANT CONTD
MENTION OF FOG (AT LEAST PATCHY) ALL AREAS. FOR MOST PART, FWC HAS
FARED BETTER THAN ITS FAN/MAV COUNTERPARTS & THEREFORE GETS THE NOD
(MID 60S ACRS THE BOARD).

SAT:
WITH S-SE FLOW GETTING BETTER ESTABLISHED, MID 80S APR KOSHER ALL
AREAS. ABSENCE OF ANY LOW-LVL FOCUS DICTATES DRY FCST ALL AREAS.

SAT NGT:
INCRG SOUTHERLY SFC COMP KEEPING MINS IN UPR 60S WITH MOST AREAS AT
WARMER END OF SPECTRUM.
ES

COORD: SGF.

FCSTID = 4
ICT   83  65  87  69 /  70   0   0   0
HUT   82  65  87  68 /  70   0   0   0
EWK   83  65  86  68 /  70   0   0   0
EQA   83  65  86  68 /  70   0   0   0
WLD   84  65  87  70 /  70   0   0   0
RSL   80  65  86  68 /  70   0   0   0
GBD   81  65  87  69 /  70   0   0   0
SLN   82  65  86  69 /  70   0   0   0
MPR   82  65  87  69 /  70   0   0   0
CFV   85  65  86  69 /  40   0   0   0
CNU   84  65  85  69 /  40   0   0   0
K88   83  65  84  68 /  40   0   0   0

.ICT...NONE.

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:55 UTC.

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Event by event

3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Russell

When: June 8, 3:58 AM CST
Where: Russell County, Russell
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.915, -98.762 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Street flooding.

Flash Flood, Sedgwick

When: June 8, 7:10 AM CST
Where: Sedgwick County, Wichita
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.685, -97.461 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The following were flooded: The Rock Rd/17th St. N intersection, the Central Ave/West St. intersection (2-3 ft), the Maple St/Maize Rd. intersection, West St. between 2nd Ave and Central Ave., and the Zoo Boulevard/13th St. N intersection.

Flash Flood, Sumner

When: June 8, 7:55 AM CST
Where: Sumner County, 10 mi N of Wellington
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 37.237, -97.477 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The following were closed: Highway 81, 110th St. S/Meridian intersection, and numerous low water crossings.

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

Every storm in Kansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5246456, 5246455, 5246454.