Missouri, 2001

Flash Flood in Missouri, April 3, 2001

April 3, 2001 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Significant street flooding occurred around the Versailles area, with rainfall amounts averaging between two and three inches across the northern portion of the county. Some isolated four inch totals were near the communities of Versailles and Pyrmont.

Where it happened

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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 SGF wrote it up.

Significant street flooding occurred around the Versailles area, with rainfall amounts averaging between two and three inches across the northern portion of the county. Some isolated four inch totals were near the communities of Versailles and Pyrmont.

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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 3, 10:55 AM CST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 10:55 AM CST, 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1155 AM CDT TUE APR 3 2001

WARM FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM ABOUT FT. SCOTT TO LEBANON TO WEST
OF WEST PLAINS. BEGINNING TO SHOW UP RATHER WELL ON VISIBLE
SATELLITE IMAGE.  CONVECTION TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT HAS PRODUCED
SOME HAIL REPORTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA.

HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO LOWER AFTERNOON HIGHS TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF
THE WARM FRONT.  BELIEVE CLOUDS AND RAIN WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN THERE.
HOWEVER...HAVE RAISED HIGHS TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT WHERE CLOUDS
HAVE MIXED OUT FAIRLY WELL THIS MORNING AND TEMPS HAVE ALREADY SHOT
UP INTO THE 70S.

.SGF...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

GAEDE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:00 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Morgan

When
April 3, 11:02 AM CST
Where
Morgan County, North Portion
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
38.424, -92.886 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5240343.