1 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 1:10 PM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 210 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 AT 18Z...WEAK COLD FRONT/SURFACE BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM HENDERSON KY TO ABOUT KCGI. RADAR SHOWED A NARROW LINE OF SHOWERS ALONG THE BOUNDARY. THE BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED SHOWERS WERE SAGGING SLOWLY SOUTH AT JUST 5 TO 10 KT. EXTRAPOLATION PLACES THE FRONT NEAR A POF TO PAH LINE AT 22Z. RUC INDICATES THE FRONT SHOULD FINALLY CLEAR THE KENTUCKY BORDER AROUND 03Z. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS CAPES INCREASE WITH DAYTIME HEATING. AFTER THE FRONT CLEARS THE FORECAST AREA EARLY TONIGHT...PRECIP THREAT SHOULD BE OVER AT LEAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FRIDAY APPEARS DRY AND A LITTLE LESS HUMID AS WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE OHIO VALLEY. THE PUSH BEHIND THE FRONT IS QUITE WEAK...AND MODELS SHOW PRACTICALLY NO DIFFERENCE IN 925 MB TEMPS BETWEEN 00Z TODAY AND 00Z SATURDAY. THEREFORE...WILL FOLLOW MOS GUIDANCE IN KEEPING HIGHS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN. WITH SURFACE DEW POINTS SLOWLY FALLING...OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE COOLER. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD DIRECTLY OVER THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY. DESPITE POSSIBILITY OF EMBEDDED UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW...WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY DUE TO RELATIVELY DRY AND STABLE AIR MASS. EXTENDED FORECAST... MRF INDICATES THE NORTHWEST UPPER LEVEL FLOW PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK. LOW LEVEL SOUTHWEST RETURN FLOW WILL DEVELOP ON SUNDAY...RAISING TEMPS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL AND INCREASING SURFACE DEW POINTS. A WEAK BACKDOOR COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE FORECAST AREA MONDAY...THEN RETURN NORTHEAST AS A WARM FRONRT TUESDAY. 12Z AVN INDICATES THIS FRONT WILL NOT REACH FAR SW INDIANA...BUT MCS ACTIVITY ALONG THE FRONT COULD TRACK SOUTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA. .PAH...NONE. MY
ILZ084>094-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-107>112-114-071900- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1152 AM CDT THU JUN 7 2001 THIS OUTLOOK IS VALID FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 600 AM FRIDAY. AT MIDDAY A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED EAST TO WEST FROM WINSLOW INDIANA TO PERRYVILLE MISSOURI AND WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. WITH A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. WIND FIELDS ALOFT ARE WEAK AND FRONTAL CONVERGENCE IS WEAK...SO THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. ANTICIPATED STORM MOTION WILL BE TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JAP
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Runoff from heavy rainfall covered several roadways in Owensboro, causing traffic problems, in addition to stranding a few cars.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5248567.