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 Feb 25, 3:06 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 306 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2001 ON THE LATEST WEATHER MAP...AN INTENSE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WITH A COLD FRONT CURVING ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA TO THE TEXAS GULF COAST. A SECOND COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE LOW ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI INTO OKLAHOMA. KPAH SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE QUAD STATE REGION WITH IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE SHOULD MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR SAULT STE MARIE AROUND NOON TODAY WHILE THE COLD FRONTS PUSH EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA. LATEST SURFACE MAP SHOWS GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS ACROSS THE AREA WITH GUSTY WEST WINDS PREVAILING ACROSS MISSOURI WEST OF THE COLD FRONT. THESE WINDS SHOULD SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND GRADUALLY DIMINISH AS THE SURFACE LOW MOVES AWAY FROM THE AREA. CLOUDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO CLEAR FROM THE WEST THIS MORNING. HOWEVER...AN AREA OF WRAPAROUND LOW CLOUDS CURRENTLY OVER MUCH OF MISSOURI WILL ROTATE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE REGION. OTHERWISE...CU RULE INDICATES THAT SCT-BKN CU WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD INTO THE REGION TONIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY ALONG THE NORTHERN CA COAST WILL SLIDE SOUTHEAST ALONG THE COAST AND THEN MOVE EAST INTO NORTHWEST OLD MEXICO ON TUESDAY. MOISTURE HAS ALREADY MOVED EASTWARD INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES AND THIS MOISTURE SHOULD STREAM INTO OUR AREA ON MONDAY. WILL CONTINUE LOW POPS IN WESTERN ZONES MONDAY NIGHT FOR SHOWERS AS ORGANIZED ENERGY PULLS OUT OF SW COMBINED WITH A COLD FRONT FROM THE NORTH. REMAINDER OF FORECAST IS GENERALLY ON TRACK WITH LATEST MRF. WILL ONLY MAKE MINOR TWEAKS. WILL GENERALLY USE A BLEND OF FWC...MAV AND PREVIOUS CCF NUMBERS. .PAH...NONE. JSH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH, KY
1213 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1046 PM 10 S HOPKINSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 CHRISTIAN A FEW TREES DOWN ACROSS
SOUTHERN PART OF
COUNTY - TIME OESTIMATED
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH, KY
1105 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1046 PM 10 S HOPKINSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 CHRISTIAN A FEW TREES DOWN ACROSS
SOUTHERN PART OF
COUNTY - TIME ESTIMATED
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGERThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The St. Francis River exceeded flood stage at Patterson from February 25 to February 26. The river crested at 18.0 feet, two feet above flood stage, at 5:30 P.M. on the 25th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, February 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: 5232116.