Flood, Leavenworth
- When
- March 15, 1:00 AM CST to March 16, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Leavenworth forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 39.199, -95.038 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Kansas, March 15 to 16, 2001
A strong storm system moved across northeast Kansas on March 15th and 16th. Rains of around 1 inch,in combination with melting snow, caused minor flooding on Stranger Creek.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
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 happened
The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.
A strong storm system moved across northeast Kansas on March 15th and 16th. Rains of around 1 inch,in combination with melting snow, caused minor flooding on Stranger Creek.
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 Mar 14, 4:40 PM CST, 8 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 4:40 PM CST, 8 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 440 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001 DVLPG LATE WINTER/ERLY SPRING STORM TO BRING A VARIETY OF WX NXT 48 HRS. WV LOOP THIS PM SHWS STG SUBTROPICAL JET ACR MEXICO AND TX GULF COAST CONTAINING PLENTY OF MID LVL MSTR AND NRN BRANCH DIGGING SWRD THRU NRN ROCKIES. AS MENTIONED PAST FEW DAYS THE EVOLUTION OF THE PHASING OF THESE FEATURES WILL DICTATE WHAT FALLS WHERE AND HOW MUCH. CNVTN FIRING LATE THIS PM AHD OF WRM FNT XTNDG FM KC METRO AREA EWRD ACR MO RVR. CROS SECT DATA DOES NOT SUGGEST FAVORABLE ELEVATED CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL ERLY THIS EVNG SO NOT REAL CONFIDENT FOR SVR WX FORMING WITH THIS INTIAL ROUND OF STORMS. AVN/ETA SHW MUCH STEEPER MID LVL LAPSE RATES AFT 0300 UTC WITH AREA OF UPR/LWR TROPOSPHERIC DVRGNC/CNVGNC. ISOLD LARGE HAIL NOT OUT OF QUESTION LTR THIS EVNG AND OVERNIGHT. ISSUES FLOD WATCH FOR ALL ZNS GIVEN AMT OF MSTR BEING INJECTED INTO THIS SYS AND FCST FFG ARND 1.5 INCHES OR LESS. SVRL NW MO RVS CONT TO RISE DUE TO LAST WKENDS RA ACR IA AND SNOWMELT LAST FEW DAYS. DESPITE LACK OF IMMEDIATE CD AIR UPSTREAM...DEEPENING SYS CONTS ENOUGH LIFT FOR SGFNT DYNAMIC COOLING THUR PM. DID NOT HAVE COMPLETE SET OF SOUNDING DATA FM 1200 UTC MODEL RUNS BUT FOLLOWED WET BULB ZERO TEMP AT 850 HPA AND CAA PATTERN AT 700 HPA TO FCST MVMNT OF RA/SN LN. MODELS FCST ATTM TO COOL UNIFORMALLY FM TOP DOWN SO THINK CHG TO SN SHLD OCCUR ARND 1800 UTC THUR FAR NW MO AND 2200-2400 UTC ALG MKC-IRK LN AND AFT 0000 UTC ACR SE CWA. WITH WARM CONVEYOR BELT XPTD TO BRACH OFF STG SUB-TROPICAL JET THINK THAT POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR TROWAL TO SET UP FM SRN WI SWRD TO IA/MO BORDER. MODELS GRIDDED DATA ALSO SHW STG MID TROPOSPHERIC FRONTOGENETIC FORCING ACR NRN MO BET 1800-2100 UTC. EMPIRACAL SNOWFALL RULES SUGGEST UP TO 8 INCHES LOCALLY BUT SINCE A HVY WET SNOW ANTICIPATED BELIEVE THAT LIQ/SN RATION MAY COME IN LESS AN 10:1. THERFORE WENT WITH 3-6 INCHES ACR NRN MO AND MENTIONED FOR POTENTIAL OF >8 INCHES LOCALLY IN WSW. UPRIGHT/SYMETRIC INTABILITY GET SHUT OFF ACCORDING TO MODEL CROS SECTS ONCE LYR CAA TAKES PLACE. STILL WITH 6 HRS OF STG ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE LIKELY THINK BANDING OF HVY SNOWFALL A GOOD POSSIBILITY ACR NRN THIRD OF MO. FTHR S INSERTED CHC FOR 1-3 ICCHES WITH LCOALLY HVY BURSTS OF SN THURS EVNG. IN XTND FCST KEPT CHC FOR SN ON SAT WITH PROGREESIVE SHRT WV FCST BY MED RANGE MODELS TO TRACK ACR SRN PLNS WITH WEAK INVERTED TROF INTO MO. BUT WITH MORE OVERALL SRN TRACK FCST REMOVED PCPN THREAT FOR SUN. RETURN OF MARCH SUN BY MIDDLE OF NXT WK PORTENDS WELL FOR TEMPS TO GET BACK CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMS IN LWR TO MID 50S THEREOFR BOOSTED MAX TEMPS UP SVRL CATS. .EAX... KS...FLOOD ADVSY ALL ZNS TNGT AND THUR WINTER STORM WATCH THUR PM KSZ043 MO...FLODD ADVSY ALL ZNS TNGT AND THUR WINTER STORM WATCH THUR/THUR NIGHT MOZ001>005-011-012 WINTER STORM WATCH THUR NIGHT MOZ006>008-015>017-024-025 BODNER
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Florida, March 15, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, March 15, 2001
- Tornado in Georgia, March 15, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, March 15, 2001
- High Wind in Kansas, March 15, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, March 15, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, March 15 to 16, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, March 15 to 16, 2001
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Georgia, March 15, 2001
- High Wind in Oklahoma, March 15, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, March 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 15, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, March 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: 5237203.