Flooding in Missouri, June 6 to 28, 2001

Name: Flooding in Missouri, June 6 to 28, 2001
Start: 2001-06-06T08:00
End: 2001-06-28T22:00
Location: Missouri

June 6 to 28, 2001 · NWS PAH · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

Heavy rains across the Missouri River basin and parts of the Mississippi River basin caused rises on the Mississippi River. 5 feet above flood stage on the 12th.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 3 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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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 PAH wrote it up.

Heavy rains across the Missouri River basin and parts of the Mississippi River basin caused rises on the Mississippi River. Cape Girardeau crested 6.5 feet above flood stage on the 12th. The river was slow to fall, finally going below flood stage at Cape Girardeau on the 22nd. This was short-lived, as another round of heavy rains in the above-mentioned basins caused another crest on the 27th. Cape Girardeau crested less than one foot above flood stage this time. The first crest on June 12 resulted in moderate flooding that was primarily agricultural. Cape Girardeau closed the Themis Street and Broadway floodgates, leaving only one gate open. Closing the floodgates prevented tourist riverboats from docking at Cape Girardeau, resulting in an indirect loss of up to 32,000 dollars from tourist spending.

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 Jun 6, 1:00 AM CST, 7 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:00 AM CST, 7 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
200 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2001

06Z SURFACE ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO DEPICT LOW OVER WESTERN TEXAS WITH
AN ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH MCI...SPI
TO NEAR IND. HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SE US STILL FOCUSES RIDGE AXIS
THROUGH HEART OF THE FA.

00Z WED MODEL RUNS AGREE THE WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MEANDER
...ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF FA...TODAY. HOWEVER DISCONTINUITIES WITH
THE AVN/ETA SOLUTIONS BEGIN OVNGT TNGT. THE AVN BRINGS COLD FRONT
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 06Z THU AND SOUTH/EAST OF THE FA BY
12Z THU. IN CONTRAST...THE ETA HOLDS FRONT WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
UNTIL 12Z (60 HOURS) FRIDAY. THE 00Z TUE ETA RUN POSITIONED THE
FRONT IN A SIMILAR ORIENTATION AT 60 HOURS...WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN
12Z THU. THUS...THE ETA KEEPS PUSHING FROPA BACK. THE AVN PUSHES
FRONT THROUGH AND KEEPS SOUTHEAST PROGRESSION STRONG. TS ALLISON
SHOULD WORK AGAINST THIS SOLUTION. THE END RESULT IS...POSSIBLY
HAVING DECREASED POPS OVER PORTIONS OF FA...BUT WITH AN INCREASED
LONGEVITY.
WITH SUCH DISCREPANCIES IN THE MODELS...HAVE LOW CONFIDENCE IN
EITHER SOLUTION. THIS COMBINED WITH THE INFLUENCE OF REMNANTS FROM
ALLISON EVEN FURTHER COMPLICATE THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. ALL THIS
CONSIDERED THE CHC OF TSRA WILL CONTINUE WITH EITHER SOLUTION.
POSSIBLE CHANGES TO TIMING OF POPS SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER DUE TO
UNCERTAINTY TO FROPA TIUME.

FWC OUTPERFORMING ALL OTHER NUMERICAL GUIDANCE AND WILL FOLLOW
CLOSELY. WILL HEDGE TO THE WARM SIDE OF AVN GUIDANCE PAST THE FWC
FORECAST PERIODS.

.PAH...NONE.

HOOPER

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Cape Girardeau

When: June 6, 8:00 AM CST to June 28, 10:00 PM CST
Where: Cape Girardeau forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 37.384, -89.684 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Perry

When: June 6, 8:00 AM CST to June 28, 10:00 PM CST
Where: Perry forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 37.707, -89.824 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flood, Scott

When: June 6, 8:00 AM CST to June 28, 10:00 PM CST
Where: Scott forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 37.053, -89.568 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, June 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: 5248564, 5248565, 5248566.