Name: Flood in Missouri, July 29, 2001
Start: 2001-07-29T11:00
End: 2001-07-29T16:00
Location: Missouri

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 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 10:34 AM CST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 10:34 AM CST, 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1134 AM CDT SUN JUL 29 2001

WILL DROP FFA FOR THE ENTIRE AREA BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS. PLUS
NEW ETA/NGM/AVN ALL SUPPORT ONLY CHANCE POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR
AREAS SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY.

AT 1130 AM THE SURFACE BOUNDARY WAS ALONG A LINE FROM CARBONDALE TO
OWENSBORO. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS GENERALLY SOUTH OF THAT LINE
UNTIL MAIN VORT MAX EXITS THE AREA BY 00Z.

ANALYSIS OF MORNING SOUNDINGS SHOW AIR IS STILL VERY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE SOUTH OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY. HOWEVER...MOST OF THE
DYNAMICS ARE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA...SO ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED
CONVECTION EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON.

.PAH...NONE
SPODEN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 29, 7:17 AM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
817 AM CDT SUN JUL 29 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 AM                              IN   FLOODING
07/29/01   GIBSON                         SEVERAL HOMES AND
                                          NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
                                          FLOODED ALONG THE PIGEON
                                          CREEK. REPORTED BY EMA

DLL

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 10:26 AM CST, 34 minutes before

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-
107>112-114-291830-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1126 AM CDT SUN JUL 29 2001

THIS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK IS VALID FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA...
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...WESTERN KENTUCKY...
AND IS VALID UNTIL 600 AM MONDAY.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY SOUTH
OF A LINE FROM PERRYVILLE MISSOURI TO OWENSBORO KENTUCKY. NO SEVERE
WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

A WEAK FRONT WAS SITTING OVER THE AREA LATE THIS MORNING. IT WAS
ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR CARBONDALE ILLINOIS TO OWENSBORO
KENTUCKY. NORTH OF THIS FRONT...THE AIRMASS IS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DUE TO WARM AIR ALOFT.

SOUTH OF THE FRONT...THE AIRMASS IS STILL UNSTABLE AND VERY MOIST.
WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER PARTS OF
WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LATE THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS
UPPER LEVEL ENERGY EXITS THE REGION.

ALTHOUGH THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE SOUTHERN AREAS IS UNSTABLE...UPPER
LEVEL WINDS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.
HOWEVER...DUE TO THE HIGH AMOUNT OF MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE...
STRONGER SHOWERS AND STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

SPODEN

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Wayne

When: July 29, 11:00 AM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Wayne forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 37.113, -90.461 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Torrential thunderstorm rains caused the St. Francis River to rise very quickly during the morning hours of the 29th. The river crested about a foot above flood stage at Patterson at 1:45 P.M. This resulted in minor flooding. The greatest danger was to campers and canoers on the river, especially since the event began at night. Big Creek, a tributary of the St. Francis River, threatened campers in the Sam A. Baker State Park, who were evacuated. A couple of campers were stranded on an island, but were never directly endangered by the floodwaters.

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.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Missouri in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, July 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: 5257420.