1 flash 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 Jul 19, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 ONGOING EARLY PM CONVECTION REASONABLY IDENTIFIED BY ALL MODELS...AND PROGGED TO GRADUALLY BECOME MORE WIDELY SCT THROUGH PM HOURS AS THE VORT THAT IS HELPING DRIVE THIS PCPN EJECTS ACROSS LOWER OH VALLEY. THIS SHOULD SPLIT THE PCPN UP BUT PERHAPS NOT TOTALLY DIMINISH IT THRU EARLY EVENING. WL MONITOR RADAR TRENDS THRU PRESS TIME FOR FINAL DECISION ON ANY NEED FOR EVENING MENTION...BUT MAY WELL END UP OPTING FOR ONE NIGHT-TIME POP AND ALLOW NOWCASTS TO HANDLE NEAR TERM PCPN. OVERNIGHT MAIN CHALLENGE IS IF/WHERE EXPECTED COMPLEX WL LAY OUT ITS POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT QPF. ALL MODELS SUGGEST IT WL BE PRIMARILY TO THE EAST OF THIS AM'S CONVECTION...WHICH WOULD PRECLUDE NECESSITY FOR FFA SINCE IT WOULD MOVE OVER DRIER GROUND. HOWEVER WITH RADAR ESTIMATES YIELDING SOME TOTALS TO 5" OR HIGHER OVER PTNS SEMO/SW IL...WL NEED TO CLOSELY MONITOR COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT AND ITS EVENTUAL TRACK TO ENSURE IT DOES INDEED MOVE EAST OF THE SATURATED GROUNDS. ALSO NOTE MODELS SUGGEST A VERY LATE TONIGHT-INTO FRI AM SCENARIO BEFORE NEXT BOUT OF QPF...ALLOWING SUFFICIENT ADDITIONAL TIME FOR DEVELOPING HANDLE ON COMPLEX. WL ADJUST FCST TO ACCOUNT FOR HIGHEST POPS NORTH AND EAST LATE TONIGHT-FRIDAY...TAPERING TO LOWER CHC CAT POPS SOUTH AND WEST. MAY OPT TO LINGER CHC CAT POP SE PTNS EARLY FRI NIGHT TIL VORT DEPARTS WELL TO SE...BUT WON'T QUITE BUY INTO NGM POPS WHICH PERHAPS DUE TO CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK FAILS TO SEPARATE OUR PCPN FM NEXT SYS UPSTREAM. EXTENDED FCST STILL LOOKS FOR MOST PART DRY...BUT WITH RIDGE BROADENING...MID LEVEL CAP IS SOMEWHAT WEAKER THAN PAST DAYS RUNS. AS NOTED BY PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...THIS COULD RESULT IN ISOLD DIURNAL CHC POPPING UP...BUT BELIEVE FOR AT LEAST THE EARLY PART OF THE EXTENDED CHC'S ARE LOW ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE THEIR INTRODUCTION. WL 3 HOWEVER ADD CHC TO LATE EXTENDED FCST FOR MID WEEK...AS ERN CANADIAN TROF BUCKLES HEIGHTS/ERODES CAP FURTHER AND MEAN COLUMNAR MOISTURE GRADUALLY INCREASES OVER PAH FA. .PAH...NONE. DH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1120 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM 5S GREENVILLE MO 0.88 INCH HAIL
07/18/01 WAYNE REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.
0500 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 CALDWELL NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALONG
AND EAST OF HWY 91.
REPORTED BY UTILITY
COMPANY.
0430 PM EDDYVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 LYON 5-6 LARGE TREES UPROOTED
IN THE CITY PARK AND IN
RESIDENTAL AREAS.
REPORTED BY LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES PERSONNEL.
0345 PM ROSICLARE IL WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 HARDIN FEW TREES DOWN IN
ROSICLARE AND NUMEROUS
TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE
REPORTED BY EOC.
0200 PM IL WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 PERRY NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
POWER LINES WITHIN COUNTY
AS STORM WENT THROUGH.
REPORTED BY UTILITY
COMPANY.
0200 PM DUQUOIN IL WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 PERRY ALUMINUM BORDER ON ROOF
OF HOUSE DAMAGED ON PARK
STREET. REPORTED BY HOTEL
EMPLOYEE.
0345 PM IL WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 POPE NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALL
OVER COUNTY. REPORTED BY
POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES.ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-191900- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1151 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 THIS OUTLOOK IS VALID UNTIL 600 AM FRIDAY AND INCLUDES SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH SEVERE LIMITS ACROSS MUCH OF THE QUAD STATE TODAY AND TONIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF THE WABASH AND LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...WITH STORMS BECOMING MORE WIDELY SCATTERED AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. CHANCES WILL INCREASE AGAIN LATE TONIGHT. STILL ENTRENCHED OVER THE LOWER OHIO AND MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY IS A WARM AND SOUPY AIR MASS. LATE MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY SPREAD EAST INTO THE LOWER OHIO RIVER VALLEY THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON...AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE EJECTS ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY. ACTIVITY SHOULD BECOME MORE WIDELY SCATTERED IN ITS WAKE...AS THE FUELING MECHANISM SHIFTS FROM THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO AFTERNOON HEATING. THE EXTENT OF LEFTOVER CLOUDINESS MAY SOMEWHAT INHIBIT LATE AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT...RESULTING IN ACTIVITY BECOMING MORE WIDELY SCATTERED. CHANCES WILL THEN PICK UP AGAIN OVERNIGHT AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MOVES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE PRIMARY THREAT OF STORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. A LINGERING SURFACE BOUNDARY IN A MOISTURE RICH AND HIGHLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT MAY HELP FOCUS STORMS AND CONTRIBUTE TO STORMS REPEATING OVER THE SAME AREAS...WHICH COULD AGGRAVATE THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT. OVERNIGHT...A STILL SOUPY AIR MASS WILL BE ENCOUNTERED AS THE MORE POTENT DISTURBANCE SLIDES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE QUAD STATE. A CONTINUATION OF WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT...HIGH INSTABILITY...AND GENERALLY UNIDIRECTIONAL WINDS WILL MAKE THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT...IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...WIND DAMAGING STORMS. STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE GENERALLY SOUTHEAST 15 TO 20 MPH. HOWEVER STORMS MAY REDEVELOP...OR BACKBUILD...TO THE NORTH AND WEST...WHICH COULD RESULT IN REPEAT STORMS OVER THE SAME AREAS. THIS COMBINED WITH THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT MAKES LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS A CONTINUED THREAT BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. SPOTTERS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN IN ALERT STATUS IN CASE THEIR ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. DH
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 171 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:09 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms repeatedly moved across Ripley County from midday through late afternoon. Radar estimated 3 to 4 inches fell over portions of the county. A street was closed in downtown Doniphan.
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, July 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: 5257289.