1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 15, 4:45 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
445 PM CST THU MAR 15 2001
AMOUNT AND DURATION OF SNOW MAIN CONCERN TONIGHT. LARGE SCALE
SYNOPTIC OCCLUSION WILL SPREAD CYCLONIC SNOW SHIELD OVER FAR NERN
CORNER OF CWA THIS EVENING. CHANGE OVER RAIN TO SNOW...AS FOLLOWED
BY PREFERRED AVM MODEL...SHOULD BE COMPLETE SHORTLY AFTER SS. THUS
AM EXPECTED LOTS OF WIND AND SNOWFALL...BUT AMOUNT STICKING PROBABLY
LESS THAN THREE INCHES MOST AREAS EAST OF HIGHWAY 77. TO THE
WEST...WIND ADVISORY IN ORDER UNTIL OCCLUSION MOVES FAR ENOUGH EAST.
AVM SHOWING SNOW SHIELD JUST EAST OF CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH BEST
VERTICAL MOTION MOVING EAST TOO. SO WILL ONLY CARRY ADVISORIES
THROUGH MIDNIGHT. EVENING SHIFT MAY NEED TO EXTEND A BIT IF SEEN
OTRW.
CLEAR SAILING AFTER TONIGHT. NEXT SYSTEM IN THE EFP PD. ONLY OTHER
PROBLEM NEXT FEW DAYS IS LONGER TERM FLOODING THAT MAY FOLLOW OUR
MAJOR MARCH PCPN EVENT.
.TOP...WIND ADVISORY WEST OF HIGHWAY 77...AND ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF
INTERSTATE 35 UNTIL MIDNIGHT
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY EAST OF HIGHWAY 77 AND NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 35 UNTIL MIDNIGHTThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused small creeks and streams to overflow their banks in eastern Shawnee county for a time covering some roads with water.
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, March 2001
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