Flash Flood, Christian
- When
- June 29, 6:30 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Christian County, South Portion
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.970, -93.189 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Missouri, June 29, 2001
Numerous roads were flooded and impassable across southern Christian County. The excessive rainfall also caused a mudslide over Highway 65.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Numerous roads were flooded and impassable across southern Christian County. The excessive rainfall also caused a mudslide over Highway 65.
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 2:01 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:01 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 301 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 THINGS A BIT SLOWER TO GET GOING VERSUS THE THE PAST THREE DAYS...AT LEAST SO FAR. 12Z SOUNDING SHOWING 5H TEMPERATURES A COUPLE OF DEGREES WARMER THAN YESTERDAY. STILL...UPPER LOW CENTERED REMAINS OVER SOUTHERN MO...WITH ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED ACTIVITY POPPING UP. MODIFIED 12Z SOUNDING YIELDS CAPES OF 2000-2500 J/KG. SO ADDITIONAL DIURNAL ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED. PERSISTENT CONVECTION ALSO REMAINS IN PLACE FROM LAST NIGHT'S ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT EXIT REGION OF 25H JET. THIS ACTIVITY HAS THROWN OFF SOME WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTO SW MO. AS WITH PAST DAYS...WILL CARRY AN EVENING RAIN CHANCE EVERYWHERE. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE OFF BY MIDNIGHT. MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE RAIN CHANCES OVER THE WEEKEND. ETA/AVN REMAIN SIMILAR IN SHEARING OUT UPPER LOW OVER MO WHILE DEVELOPING ANOTHER MIDLEVEL CIRCULATION OVER THE TX GULF COAST. WATER VAPOR SHOWING THIS SECOND CIRCULATION NICELY. AS A RESULT... WARMING MIDLEVEL TEMPERATURES SHOULD LESSEN RAIN CHANCE TOMORROW. WITH 5H HEIGHTS BUILDING INTO THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...RAIN CHANCES SEEM NEAR NIL FOR LATE IN THE WEEKEND. COLD FRONT SINKS INTO NORTHERN MO ON SUNDAY...BUT BELIEVE ANY ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN WELL TO THE NORTH. IN THE EXTENDED...HEIGHTS BUILD OUT WEST AND NORTHWEST FLOW BECOMES ESTABLISHED OVER THE REGION. MRF PUSHES FRONT INTO SOUTHERN MO WEDNESDAY AND INTO NORTHERN AR ON THURSDAY. PROXIMITY OF FRONT COUPLE WITH NORTHWEST FLOW SPELL A CHANCE FOR RAIN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. PRELIMINARY FORECAST ONLY: FCSTID = 26/DSA SGF 64 83 65 O86 / 50 30 30 10 JLN 65 85 67 88 / 50 30 30 10 UNO 64 82 64 84 / 50 30 30 10 VIH 64 83 64 84 / 50 30 20 10 .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 35 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
More
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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: 5251031.