Missouri, 2001

Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 20, 2001

June 20, 2001 · NWS EAX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 12:40 AM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 12:40 AM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
140 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2001

HVY RAIN THREAT PRIMARY CONCERN TODAY AND TNGT. AXIS OF HVY RAIN
CURRENTLY ALONG I-70 CORRIDOR WITH VERY SLOW SWD DRIFT TO COMPLEX
ACR ERN KS/WRN MO. AREA OF CONVECTION AIDED BY ISENT LIFT OVER
NEARLY STNRY BOUNDARY EXTENDING FM CNU TO COU TO STL...NARROW TROP
MOIST PLUME FM NM TO MO...AND WK LLJ PERPENDICULAR TO AXIS OF
CONVECTIVE COMPLEX. LATEST SFC MAP SHOWS LTL IF ANY MOVEMENT OF
FRONTAL BOUNDARY DURING PAST SEVERAL HOURS WITH MODELS PERHAPS A LTL
TOO QUICK IN PUSHING FNT IN SRN MO BY 12Z.

LATEST MOIST IMAGERY INDICATES UPR TROF IN SCNTRL CANADA DIGGING SSE
WITH NUMEROUS WEAK SHRTWVS AHEAD OF SHRTWV TROF AXIS EXTENDING
SOUTHWEST INTO NRN UTAH AND NWRN WYOMING. AS PER MODELS...SHRTWV
TROF AXIS NOT TO PASS THROUGH CWA UNTIL LATE TNGT WITH WSW H7-H5 FLO
ONLY ALLOWING FOR SLOW SWD PROGRESS OF FNT. OVERALL...PREFER NGM/ETA
HANDLING OF SITUATION NEXT 24 HOURS. ETA/NGM SHOWS WK-MDT ISENT LIFT
TO CONTINUE ON 305K SFC WITH PRECIP WATER VALUES FM 1.5-1.75 ACR SRN
HALF OF CWA TODAY. AREA ALSO IN FAVORABLE RIGHT REAR QUAD OF LINEAR
H3 JET FM ERN NEB INTO GREAT LAKES REGION. ETA QUICK TO WEAKEN ISENT
LIFT AND UPR FORCING EARLY TNGT WITH NGM MAINTAINING FORCING UNTIL
SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.

XPCT AXIS OF HEAVY RAINFALL TO SHIFT ANOTHER 25-50 MILES TO THE
SOUTH OF CURRENT POSITION BEFORE BECOMING STATIONARY OR BOWING
SLIGHTLY NWD THIS AFTN AHEAD OF SHRTWV TROF. PLAN TO EXTEND FLASH
FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70.
WATCH MAY BE NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO EXTREME SRN CWA FOR TNGT IF
NGM SLOWER SOLUTION VERIFIES.

RAIN TO END IN SRN ZONES EARLY THURS WITH SLOW CLEARING DURING AFTN.
MODEL GUID TOO WARM FOR TODAY AND LOOKS OK OTHERWISE.

.EAX...
KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TDY FOR KSZ025-057-060-103>105.
MO...FLAsSH FLOOD WATCH TDY FOR MOZ-028>030-037>040-043>046-053-054.

DB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 10:32 PM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
1132 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001

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

1130 PM                              KS   8 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN
06/19/01   ATCHISON                       SINCE NOON REPORTED BY
                                          THE PUBLIC AND
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Local storm report, Jun 20, 12:50 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
150 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2001

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

0140 AM    BLUE SPGS                 MO   WIND DAMAGE
06/20/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          12 INCH DIAMETER TREE
                                          DOWN IN SOUTH PART OF
                                          CITY.

JULY

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:27 UTC.

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Event by event

2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Platte

When
June 20, 3:29 AM CST
Where
Platte County, Dearborn
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
39.381, -94.774 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Numerous roads across county closed due to flooding.

Flash Flood, Platte

When
June 20, 9:09 AM CST
Where
Platte County, Edgerton
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
39.381, -94.774 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flooding continues to close roads at: Edgerton Junction...E Hwy at Skinners bridge...B Hwy and KK Hwy...Unionville Rd...92 Hwy at Todd Creek and at Second Creek.

What these are

Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5253089, 5253090.