Flood, Crook
- When
- June 4, 5:50 PM MST to 11:59 PM MST
- Where
- Crook County, 10 mi SW of Aladdin
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.589, -104.570 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flooding in Wyoming, June 4, 2001
Locally heavy rain produced minor flooding over rural areas of Crook and Weston Counties during the evening hours. Small streams rose out of their banks and 6 inches of standing water was reported on highways.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 UNR wrote it up.
Locally heavy rain produced minor flooding over rural areas of Crook and Weston Counties during the evening hours. Small streams rose out of their banks and 6 inches of standing water was reported on highways. By 8 pm MST the rain had tapered off, and by midnight, the streams had receded back within their banks.
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 Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 300 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2001 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PLACES LOW OVER CENT CO WITH AN INVERTED TROF EXTENDING N THROUGH ERN WY. MUCH DRIER AIR NOTED BEHIND THIS TROF.. WITH A 20F DEW POINT CHANGE FM NE WY TO WRN WY. AREA RADARS INDC BROAD AREA OF PRECIP ALONG AND E OF THIS TROF WHICH IS INCREASING INTENSITY AND AREAL COVERAGE. IR IMAGES SHOW COOLING CLOUD TOPS FM SE WY INTO SW SD. LIGHTNING ACTIVITY IS INCREASING OVER NEB PANHANDLE. MODELS INITIALIZED WELL AND SHOW PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT OVER MUCH OF U.S. CLOSED LOW OVER MT/WY CAN BE SEEN OPENING UP AND WEAKENING IN WV IMAGES...AS PROGGED. OF COURSE SHOULD GET ONE LAST PUSH OF ROBUST SYNOPTIC LIFT...MAINLY THIS EVENING...BEFORE THIS LOW FINALLY WEAKENS AND SHEARS OUT AS UPPER FLOW BECOMES ZONAL. S/WV MOVING AROUND THIS LOW IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A GOOD BIT OF PVA AND ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER CWFA ATTM THROUGH THE EVE HOURS. WITH A SATURATED ATMO THROUGH THE LOWEST 8KM...RAIN IS A SURE BET OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MODEST CAPE OVER CWFA...HOWEVER 500-1000 J/KG EXPECTED JUST S OF CWFA. MILDLY STEEP LAPSE RATES OVER CWFA. OCCASIONAL WEAK THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVE MAINLY WRN AND SRN MOST ZONES. GOOD DRYING OVER CWFA FM W TO E AFT 03Z AS SFC TO 850 LAYER IS FAIRLY DRY BEHIND TROF. SHOULD SEE NEARLY STEADY TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE NIGHT...ONLY DIPPING A FEW DEGREES AFTER MIDNIGHT. THICK MID AND HIGH CLOUD DECK AND COOLER/DRYER AIR MOVING OVER WET GROUND WILL ALLOW PATCHY FOG TO DEVELOP. ATMO SLOWLY DRIES OVER NEXT COUPLE DAYS. DEEPER MOISTURE REMAINS TO N AND E OF CWFA...AND SOME PRECIP MAY BE SEEN THROUGH TUESDAY IN EXTREME NRN AND ERN ZONES. WILL ANTICIPATE DRYING ATMO TUE...HOWEVER ROBUST EVAP OF PLENTIFUL GROUND MOISTURE COMBINED WITH LINGERING MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ALLOW SOME CU DEVELOP TUE AFTERNOON. THESE CLOUDS COMBINED WITH HIGH CLOUDS WILL LIMIT HIGH TEMPS TUE. GUIDANCE POPS AND TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE AND HAVE CHANGED VERY LITTLE...ONLY MAKING CHANGES PER ABOVE. WED INTO EXTENDED PERIODS WILL SEE ZONAL FLOW GIVE WAY TO UPPER LEVEL RIDGING OVER WRN U.S. RIDGE BUILD OVER ROCKIES THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH A FEW SHORTWAVES MOVING OVER THE RIDGE DAYS 5-7 SUPPORTING DIURNAL CONVECTION. TEMPS SHOULD WARM TO AROUND NORMAL OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE. GUIDANCE HAS A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS AND HAVE N'T CHANGED MUCH. .UNR...NONE. 99
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Weston
- When
- June 4, 5:50 PM MST to 11:59 PM MST
- Where
- Weston County, Upton
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.841, -104.568 (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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 4, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 4 to 5, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, June 4, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 4, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, 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: 5253806, 5253807.