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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 1:25 AM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 225 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 RATHER TOUGH FORECAST. FCST SEEMS TO HINGE LARGELY UPON MOVEMENT OF WARM FRONT...WHICH IS GOING TO BE AWFULLY TRICKY TO FIGURE OUT. 2ND LARGE NIGHTLY MCS IN A ROW MOVING ACROSS CWA AND DROPPING COPIOUS RAINFALL. MOST OF RAIN IS FALLING OVER AREA THAT DID NOT RECEIVE AS MUCH RAIN FROM FIRST MCS. ORIENTATION OF LLJ WILL TEND TO HELP MCS PROPAGATE S AND SE...THOUGH SRN EDGE WILL PROBABLY BE LIMITED BY NRN EDGE OF CAP. WOULD EXPECT MCS TO BE WANING BY SUNRISE THOUGH WILL STILL PROBABLY HAVE SOME +RA ONGOING AT THAT TIME. ONCE MCS DECAYS/MOVES OUT...WILL PROBABLY HAVE A RATHER SIGNIFICANT BREAK IN PCPN BEFORE MCS NUMBER 3 ROLLS IN TONIGHT. SO...SINCE FF THREAT WILL BE PRESENT EARLY AND AGAIN LATE...WILL PROBABLY JUST KEEP FF WATCH GOING...AND MENTION POTENTIAL BREAK IN RAIN. MAKES POPS VERY VERY TOUGH. SO...WHAT WILL THE WARM FRONT DO? MODELS STILL INSISTENT ON BRINGING IT TO AROUND I-70 OR SO. WOULD TEND TO THINK THAT CURRENT MCS WILL REINFORCE COOL AIR AND KEEP WARM FRONT FROM SURGING NORTHWARD. HOWEVER...WATCHING THE STRATUS CLEAR OUT OF SE/SC KS AND WINDS BACK AT CNU MAKES ME WONDER IF MODELS MAYBE HAVE RIGHT SOLUTION. SINCE UPPER LOW IS NOT TERRIBLY PROGRESSIVE...HAVE MY DOUBTS THAT WARM FRONT WILL BE EITHER. THUS...WILL GO WITH MORE CONSERVATIVE FORECAST ON TEMPS AND WILL PROBABLY HOLD OFF ON MENTION OF SVR FOR TONIGHT...SINCE SETUP TONIGHT MAY END UP BEING MORE LIKE CURRENT SCENARIO WHERE BIGGER THREAT IS +RA. IF WARM FRONT SURGES NORTHWARD...AND WARM SECTOR ENDS UP HEATING UP ALONG NRN EDGE OF CAP...SVR WX THREAT WILL BE MUCH HIGHER THAN CURRENTLY ADVERTISED. WILL TRY TO COVER THIS SCENARIO IN HWO. EITHER WAY...SHOULD HAVE MCS NUMBER 3 ROLL THROUGH TONIGHT SO WILL GO WITH AT LEAST LIKELY POPS. BOUNDARY DOESNT CLEAR AREA UNTIL LATE TUESDAY SO CURRENT CHC POPS LOOK FINE...MAY HAVE LINGERING MCS ACTIVITY IN AM ANYWAY. TEMPS ENTIRELY CONTIGENT UPON WARM FRONTAL MOVEMENT. WILL PROBABLY JUST STICK REAL CLOSE TO CURRENT FCST. .EAX... KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES THROUGH TONIGHT. MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL ZONES THROUGH TONIGHT. MANION
KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040- 043>046-053-054-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 600 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 ...REDEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING EXPECTED TONIGHT... FORECAST...THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER THE AREA WILL COME TO AN END THIS MORNING. THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING THAT IS WIDESPREAD SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 SHOULD COME TO AN END BY LATE MORNING...ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF RIVER FLOODING WILL REMAIN. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY FORM DURING THE DAY TODAY...BUT THIS ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME WIDESPREAD OR SEVERE. ANOTHER COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY REDEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND MOVE SOUTHEAST. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO LIKELY OCCUR...WHICH WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. DISCUSSION...A WARM FRONT POSITIONED FROM NORTHERN OKLAHOMA TO NORTHERN ARKANSAS WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD THROUGH TONIGHT. THE WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REACH CLOSE TO INTERSTATE 70 BY TONIGHT. THIS FRONT WILL SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...ESPECIALLY TONIGHT. THE INTENSITY OF THE STORMS TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BE DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH DESTABILIZATION OCCURS TODAY. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE ATMOSPHERE BY LATE TODAY SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE. THE STRONG INSTABILITY WILL COMBINE WITH FAVORABLE WIND FIELDS TO PRODUCE A ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. IF LESS DESTABILIZATION OCCURS...THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LESS THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. EITHER WAY...HEAVY RAINS APPEAR LIKELY. OUTLOOK...ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY. THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAIN. A PERIOD OF DRIER WEATHER IS FORECAST TO BEGIN WEDNESDAY. MANION
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:30 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding fatality reported on 168th St. in Ray county, or approximately 5 miles northeast of Excelsior Springs. Woman drove into flooded road where it crossed a small stream...and vehicle was washed of the road. She could not be rescued in time.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood, Ray | 2001-06-04 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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, June 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: 5252819.