2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 5:53 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR FOR HEADLINES...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
653 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001
PUT IN A CALL TO AN OBSERVER IN NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY...AND IT
WAS CONFIRMED THAT THEY HAVE FREEZING RAIN WITH 29 DEGREES. OBSERVER
SAID ROADS AND SIDEWALKS BECOMING SLICK...BUT HAVE ICE PELLETS
STICKING TO THEM ALSO. UPDATED CHERRY AND SHERIDAN FOR FREEZING
RAIN AND SLEET THIS MORNING.
.LBF...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT ZONES
004-005-022>024-035
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY AND TONIGHT ZONES
006-008-009-025-026-036-037-056>059.
S. MUTCHLERNEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-221630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 546 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL...TO NORTH PLATTE AND O NEILL. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO THE WEST THROUGH EVENING. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL TRACK NORTHEAST ALONG A WARM FRONT TODAY. THE WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTH INTO NEBRASKA...AND EXTEND NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA BY EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME WHICH MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AS STRONG LIFTING OCCURS. A SERICES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE NORTH AND ROTATE AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL LOW...WHICH WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL. TLK
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:11 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway 23 was under water. The flooding was caused by heavy rain on already saturated ground.
Highway 18 was closed east of Orafino due to flooding. The flooding was caused by heavy rain on already saturated ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, April 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: 5237147, 5237146, 5237148.