Flooding in Missouri, January 28 to 29, 2001

Name: Flooding in Missouri, January 28 to 29, 2001
Start: 2001-01-28T20:00
End: 2001-01-29T20:00
Location: Missouri

January 28 to 29, 2001 · NWS LSX · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Rainfall around 2 inches fell over a 24 hour period causing some flooding problems. Some small creeks flooded and many roads in low-lying areas flooded and became impassable.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 LSX wrote it up.

Rainfall around 2 inches fell over a 24 hour period causing some flooding problems. Some small creeks flooded and many roads in low-lying areas flooded and became impassable. Some school busses had to take alternate routes Monday afternoon to bring students home. Storm drains in some areas became clogged by snow and ice flooding some neighborhood streets.

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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 28, 3:50 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 3:50 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
350 PM CST SUN JAN 28 2001

UPR LOW CURRENTLY RDVLPG OVR THE CNTRL RCKIES WL MOV INTO WRN KS BY
MRNG.  IN THE PROCESS THE MID/UPR LVL FLOW WL BACK AND COMBINED WITH
EWD SHIFT IN LLJ...CURRENT PCPN SURGE FM SW INTO NE MO SHUD SPRD ACRS
THE CWFA.  PCPN TYPE BCMG LESS OF A PROB FOR TNGT PD.  TEMPS HV
SLOWLY MODERATED AND AT 21Z THE FRZG LN WAS LCTD FM DMO ACRS NRN
BOONE CO TO NR HILLSBORO IL.  WL CONT WITH A FRZG RN ADVSY GENERALLY
ALG AND NORTH OF THIS LN.  ONCE SFC T/TD SPRDS CLOSE TO ZERO...TMPS
SHUD STEADY OUT AND THEN RISE LATER TNGT AS WNDS BCM INCRSNG SELY IN
RESPONSE TO SFC LOW PULLING N/NEWD INTO XTRM NW AR.  OVR EC/SE MO
AND SW IL THERE MAY BE SOME INITIAL TMP DROP WITH THE ONSET OF PCPN
AND EVAP CLG...HOWEVER BLV HERE AS WELL THE TMPS WL EVENTUALLY RISE
LATE.

AS FOR THE MDLS...AM FAVORING THE MOST WWD PSN OF THE SFC LOW CLOSE
TO THE AVN/18Z ETA WHICH DPNS THE SFC LOW AS IT MOVS NWD THRU WRN MO
ON MON.  THIS SHUD ALLOW WRM AIR CURRENTLY POISED ACRS THE LWR MS
AND WRN TN VLY TO BE DRAWN NWD IN ADVANCE OF THE LOW.  ELEVATED
INSTABILITY IN ADVANCE OF THE SFC FRONT AND WITHIN THE LL MOIST AXIS
SUPPORTS CONTD MENTION OF THUNDER.  DRY SLOT SHUD SHUT DOWN PCPN OVR
MID MO BY ERLY MON AFT AND OVR ERN MO/SW IL BY ERLY EVNG.

AS THE UPR LOW PULLS INTO THE MID MS VLY AND SYS BCMS VERTICALLY
STACKED A SERIES OF WK IMPULSES WL ROT ABT THE UPR LOW AND ACRS THE
RGN.  THESE CUD BRING SVRL BURSTS OF PCPN LATE MON NGT INTO TUE.

.STL...FRZG RN ADVSRY TNGT FOR NE MO/WC IL AND A SMALL PTN OF SW IL

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Event by event

2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Boone

When: January 28, 8:00 PM CST to January 29, 8:00 PM CST
Where: Boone County, Countywide
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 38.991, -92.310 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Audrain

When: January 28, 8:00 PM CST to January 29, 8:00 PM CST
Where: Audrain County, Countywide
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 39.216, -91.842 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, January 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: 5228183, 5228184.