Thunderstorms developed over central Kansas late in the afternoon of the 7th and moved rapidly northeast into northeast Kansas during the evening. The storms produced 3 tornadoes (discussed separately), numerous reports of large hail, and widespread wind damage.
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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 episode as NWS TOP wrote it up.
Thunderstorms developed over central Kansas late in the afternoon of the 7th and moved rapidly northeast into northeast Kansas during the evening. The storms produced 3 tornadoes (discussed separately), numerous reports of large hail, and widespread wind damage.
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 Sep 7, 3:20 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
420 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001
SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL THE IMMEDIATE FORECAST
CONCERNS.
ATMOSPHERE IS PRIMED WITH LAPS SHOWING CAPES IN THE 2500-3500 RANGE
OVER EASTERN KS. WATER VAPOR SHOWS UPPER LOW OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE AND SHIFTING EAST. FRONT IS OVER CENTRAL KS WITH
THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO FIRE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS OUT
FOR MUCH OF CWA. HAVE ALSO ISSUED FLOOD WATCH FOR EASTERN HALF OF
CWA GENERALLY EAST OF A SENECA TO WESTMORELAND TO COUNCIL GROVE LINE
AS AREA WILL BE IN NORTHEAST QUAD OF UPPER LOW WITH PRECIPITABLE
WATERS IN THE 1.5 TO 2 INCH RANGE PER MODELS. WOULDNT BE SURPRISED
TO SEE SOME AREA GETTING UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN. MODELS ACTUALLY
MOVE PRECIPITATION ON OUT FAIRLY FAST AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH RAIN
LIKELY TO BE OVER BY SUNRISE. HOWEVER...NEXT SYSTEM DROPS RAPIDLY
INTO WESTERN KS ON SATURDAY AND MODELS INDICATING PRECIPITATION
TO SPREAD EAST INTO NORTH CENTRAL KS IN THE AFTERNOON WHERE HAVE
GONE WITH 30-40 PERCENT POPS...WILL LEAVE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL
KS DRY UNTIL SATURDAY NIGHT.
FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...WILL GO WITH 50 PERCENT POPS ACROSS
CWA AS NEXT UPPER TROUGH MOVES SLOWLY ACROSS.
TEMPWISE...GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S LOOK
REASONABLE FOR TONIGHT. FOR SATURDAY...HAVE RAISED TEMPERATURES SOME
OVER PREVIOUS FORECAST AS BOTH ETA/FWC MOS INDICATING HIGHS FROM THE
LOWER 80S EAST CENTRAL TO MIDDLE 70S NORTH CENTRAL.
H9HOWEVER...BELIEVE WILL STILL HAVE QUITE A FEW CLOUDS...AND WITH
FRONT HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE AREA PER ETA/AVN...DECIDED TO GO
WITH AROUND 70 NORTH CENTRAL AND INTO THE MIDDLE/UPPER 70S EAST
CENTRAL. WITH ALL CLOUDS AND POSSIBLE PRECIPITATION SUNDAY...THE
COOLER FAN/MAV NUMBERS LOOKED BETTER.
.TOP...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 2 AM SATURDAY MORNING FOR AREAS ALONG
AND EAST OF A SENECA TO WESTMORELAND TO COUNCIL GROVE LINE.
38PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
717 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0717 PM 5 W GARNETT KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/07/01 ANDERSONPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
724 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM OSAGE CITY KS .75 INCH HAIL
09/07/01 OSAGE 40 MPH WINDS AS WELL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
729 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0726 PM POMONA KS WIND DAMAGE
09/07/01 FRANKLIN DOWNED TREES IN POMONA
AND SEVERAL OTHER
LOCATIONS AROUND THE
COUNTY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
734 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0733 PM GARNETT KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/07/01 ANDERSON WIDESPREAD REPORTS OF
60 MPH WINDS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
741 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0738 PM 3 SW GLOBE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/07/01 DOUGLAS
0740 PM BALDWIN KS 70 MPH TSTM GUST
09/07/01 DOUGLASPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
746 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM 7 NE CARBONDALE KS 70 MPH TSTM GUST
09/07/01 OSAGEThe Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:49 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds blew the roofs off of two houses. The roof of a nursing home was severely damaged.
Strong winds blew a boat and dock onto nearby boats at Lake Dabanawa doing major damage.
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, September 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: 5266570, 5266571, 5266572, 5266573.