Thunderstorm Wind, Union
- When
- February 24, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.467, -89.267
About a half dozen reports were received of trees falling on roads.
Damaging Wind in Illinois, February 24, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 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 Feb 24, 1:45 PM CST, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 1:45 PM CST, 6 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 145 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 MAIN PROBLEMS WITH ZONES WILL BE TIMING ENDING OF PRECIP TONIGHT/ WIND SPEEDS/POSSIBLE FLOODING THEN SKY/TEMPS ON SUNDAY. MAIN SQUALL LINE JUST ENTERING WEST ARK AT 19Z. MODELS NOW VERY CLOSE ON ALL FEATURES. WILL USE BLEND OVERALL...TWEAKING WITH MESOETA HERE AND THERE. SFC WINDS SHOULD MAX OUT THIS EVENING BEFORE SQUALPA/FROPA. WILL MAINTAIN WINDY WORDING IN ZONES. THINK SPEEDS WILL HOLD IN 20 TO 35 MPH RANGE NEGATING NEED FOR WIND ADVISORY. DRY SLOT SHOULD HAVE PASSED MOST OF THE PAH FA BY 2 AM. PARTIAL CLEARING WILL BE USED SINCE MODELS SHOW SOME 1000-850MB MOISTURE LINGERING BEHIND FRONT. THIS SAME MOISTURE WILL ALSO LOITER INTO SUNDAY AND CU RULES/ SOUNDING PROFILES SUPPORT DIURNAL BUILDUPS...WILL CONTINUE WITH VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WORDING. WILL BE BREEZY INITIALLY ON SUNDAY MORNING MOST ZONES...ESPECIALLY NORTH. MAY CHOOSE TO ADD THIS TO ZONES...THEN TALK ABOUT WINDS DIMINISHING LATE. WILL TAKE BLEND OF FWC AND MAV MINS FOR MOST PART. BASED ON FFG VALUES AND HPC ESTIMATES WILL NOT CONSIDER FFA. SQUALL LINE MAY SPEED UP LATER TODAY AS ENERGY PUNCHES AROUND BOTTOM OF LOW ANYWAY...LIMITING TOTAL QPF. SOME CLEARING SUNDAY NIGHT AS DIURNAL CU BURNS OFF. WITH SOME HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE PARTLY CLOUDY WORDING. NEXT PAC SYSTEM NOW SLAMMING INTO CALIF COAST FORECAST TO CUTOFF. MOISTURE EJECTING OUT OF THIS SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN STREAM WILL BEGIN ARRIVING MONDAY. WILL CHANGE MONDAY SKY WORDING TO INCREASING CLOUDINESS. CHANCE POPS WILL BE INTRODUCED IN WESTERN ZONES MONDAY NIGHT FOR SHOWERS AS ORGANIZED ENERGY PULLS OUT OF SW COMBINED WITH ARCTIC FRONT FROM THE NORTH. PROXIMITY OF ARCTIC AIR SHOULD MAKE MIDWEEK STRETCH INTERESTING. PRECIP SHOULD EXIT AREA WEDNESDAY. COULD END AS SNOW. WILL REFLECT THIS FOR NORTHERN ZONES BUT WILL LEAVE AS RAIN IN SOUTHERN ZONES FOR NOW. MRF BRINGS OCCASIONAL BATCHES OF MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ALL IN ALL PARTLY TO MOSTLY THRU SATURDAY...BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON MENTIONING PRECIP FOR NOW. .PAH...NONE. SDB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 24, 3:57 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
MOZ100-107>109-242330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 357 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 900 PM... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 35 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE STORMS SHOULD APPROACH CARTER AND RIPLEY COUNTIES AROUND 600 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH A VAN BUREN TO DONIPHAN LINE BETWEEN 615 PM TO 645 PM. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SHOULD BE WATCHFUL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND PLAN TO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM TH)REATENS YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Feb 24, 6:16 PM CST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
MOZ076-086-087-100-107>112-114-250130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 616 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 900 PM... AT 605 PM...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM ELLSINORE TO BRIAR. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY REACH A PERRYVILLE...ADVANCE TO DEXTER MISSOURI LINE BEFORE 730 PM. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.
Special weather statement, Feb 24, 6:53 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
MOZ087-110-111-250125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 653 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 900 PMO... AT 650 PM...A THUNDERSTORM NEAR PUXICO WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY REACH ADVANCE AT 710 PM AND CAPE GIRARDEAU BY 720 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS BETWEEN 45 TO 55 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST.
Special weather statement, Feb 24, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour before
MOZ076-086-087-109>111-114-250200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 725 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 900 PM... AT 720 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM POPLAR BLUFF TO GREENVILLE AND SILVER LAKE MISSOURI. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL LIKELY REACH NEAR JACKSON...VANDUSER AND NEW MADRID BY 800 PM. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HOURLY RAINFALL TOTALS FROM A HALF INCH TO THREE QUARTER OF AN INCH. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE BRIEF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AS WELL AS FILL CREEKS AND DITCHES TO BANKFULL.
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, February 24, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kansas, February 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, February 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: 5231838.