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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 2:00 AM CST, 5 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 300 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS TSTM THREAT. TEMPS ARE SLIGHTLY LOWER AND HEAT ADVISORY WILL NOT BE ISSUED. SHORT TERM...SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO DEFINE THE REGION OF ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION...MAINLY AT NIGHT. THERE WILL LIKELY BE SOME LEFTOVERS DURING THE DAY...ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING...AND WILL INTRODUCE IN ZONES FROM AROUND OMA SOUTH DEPENDING ON NWD PROGRESS BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE. EXPECT LINGERING MID CLOUDS TO KEEP A LID ON TEMPS TODAY...WITH COMBO OF TEMP AND DEW POINT STILL UNCOMFORTABLE BUT BELOW HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA. DEPENDING ON CLOUDS...TEMPS COULD EVEN RUN A LITTLE HOTTER IN THE NORTH. IN ANY CASE...WILL GO CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE FROM WED ON HIGHS. TOMORROW NIGHT LOOKS LIKE A NEAR RE-RUN OF CURRENT CONDS. DESPITE AVN MODEL CONSISTENCY AS IT BLOWS UP THE FIRST WAVE...HAVE LITTLE TRUST IN ANY OF THE RIDGE RUNNING SYSTEMS DEPICTED BY ANY OF THE MODELS. BEST FORECASTING TOOL IS THE LOCATION OF THE SUBTROPICAL MOIST BAND...WHICH APPEARS TO LIFT ONLY VERY SLIGHTLY NORTH. WILL UP POPS MAINLY IN S AND CENTRAL ZONES. BOTH AVN AND ETA GIVE OMA AN IMPRESSIVE PW ABOVE 2 INCHES BY 12Z FRI. NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE LATER PDS...AT LEAST FROM WHAT THE MODELS CURRENTLY INDICATE. RIDGE SHARPENS SLIGHTLY AND SUBTROP PLUME SEEMS TO MOVE FARTHER NW...SO THE SE COULD GET ENOUGH ADDITIONAL INSOLATION FRIDAY FOR SOMEWHAT HOTTER TEMPS. WILL ALSO BRING BETTER POPS INTO THE NORTHERN ZONES FRIDAY NIGHT. IN THE EXTENDED...NEXT WEEKEND LOOKS SOMEWHAT HOTTER AS UPPER RIDGE INTENSIFIES AND SFC LOW TENDS TO STRENGTHEN IN WEST SD. BEYOND THAT...MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW THE RIDGE TENDING TO FLATTEN AND RETROGRESS. WHILE THIS MAY ALLOW A SFC FRONT TO PUSH SOUTH...THE MODELS KEEP PUTTING OFF SIGNIFICANT COOLING TO DAYS 6 AND 7. MAFTER THE THIRD DAY OF THIS...I AM WONDERING IF THEY SIMPLY CANNOT SEE OVER THE HORIZON INTO A FAIRLY UNCHANGING HEAT WAVE. .OMA...NONE POLLACK
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-191700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 535 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING OR TONIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE AFTER 8PM...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO HARLAN IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA THIS MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...BUT HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING. DAYTIME HEATING WILL CREATE ANOTHER HOT...HUMID...AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS EVENING OR TONIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES OVER THE REGION. THERE MAY BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WILL ALSO BE THREATS. POLLACK
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
657 AM CDT THU JUL 19 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0711 PM 5 SW FAIRBURY NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0720 PM 5 E FAIRBURY NE WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. SHED
DESTROYED
0720 PM FAIRBURY NE WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. TREES DOWN,
WINDOWS OUT AND ROOFS
OFF OF TWO BUILDINGS.
0720 PM FAIRBURY NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0720 PM 5 E FAIRBURY NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0730 PM VIRGINIA NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 GAGE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0755 PM 2 S ELLIS NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 GAGE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0755 PM 2 S ELLIS NE WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 GAGE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. TREES DOWN.
0757 PM 1 E HARBINE NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0757 PM 1 W ELLIS NE WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 GAGE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. LARGE TREE
DOWN.
0820 PM BEATRICE NE WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01 GAGE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. POWERLINES
AND TREES DOWNThe Topeka radar (KTWX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall in Richardson county, radar estimated over 3 inches in some locations, caused flash flooding along Walnut Creek southeast of Falls City. The flood waters affected mainly rural lowlands but did flood a county road near town.
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, July 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: 5258955.