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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 2:30 AM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
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.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA, KANSAS
1035 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM WICHITA KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/07/01 SEDGWICK REPORTED BY AN OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE AT 31ST AND
SENECA.
0515 PM WICHITA KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/07/01 SEDGWICK REPORTED BY AN OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE AT 31ST AND
SENECA
0520 PM WICHITA KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/07/01 SEDGWICK REPORT BY AN OFF-DUTY NWS
EMPLOYEE AT 31ST AND SENECA
0530 PM WICHITA KS 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/07/01 SEDGWICK REPORTED BY AN OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE AT 31ST AND
SENECA
GNThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway K-14 was covered by water and a blockade was set up.
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: 5256819.