1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 26, 1:15 AM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 215 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001 LATEST IR PICS SHOW ENHANCED CLOUDS OVER NW KY...WITHIN AXIS OF 850MB THETA-E 352 K RIDGE. THIS IS JUST AHEAD OF SURFACE COLD FRONT...WHICH IS GRADUALLY SINKING SOUTH AND TAPPING WARM SOUPY AIR OVER PAH FA AS STRONG VORT IS WORKING ITS WAY ACROSS SCNTL IL. NOTE CONVECTION EXTENDS ALONG/AHEAD OF FRONT WESTWARD ACROSS MO...AND SO ANTICIPATE CONT SCT-NUMEROUS TSMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PAH FA THIS AM AS FRONT CONTS TO MOVE IN. PRIMARY THREAT WL REMAIN LOCALLY +RA WITH SOUNDINGS STILL SHOWING PWS IN EXCESS OF 2". WHICH MODEL TO BUY IN REGARDS TO FRONTAL FCST IS PRIMARY CHALLENGE...AND WE CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT AVN IS TOO AGGRESSIVE IN ITS SWARD PUSH OF FRONT GIVEN THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS TRENDS TOWARD THE SLOWER ETA. WL CONT THAT THINKING WITH THIS PACKAGE...WHICH LEADS TO THE FRONT STALLING OUT ALONG/JUST SOUTH OF FA FRI...RETURNING NWARD AS WARM FRONT FRI NIGHT-SAT. THIS WL RE-INTRODUCE CHC PCPN AND LIKEWISE RESULT IN NOT QUITE THE COOL-OFF THAT THE AVN BASED GUIDANCE HAS SUGGESTED. .PAH...NONE. DH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Slow-moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rain, causing flooding of Highway 61 and other county roads near Benton.
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: 5255968.