The 2nd tornado from the Heavy Precipitation Supercell that moved across the NWS St. Louis County Warning Area formed just west of Fulton near Route F.
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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 episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
The 2nd tornado from the Heavy Precipitation Supercell that moved across the NWS St. Louis County Warning Area formed just west of Fulton near Route F. Shortly after forming, the tornado destroyed a mobile home killing a man inside and injuring his wife and son. The tornado moved north northeast snapping off trees, destroying outbuildings and overturning an unoccupied school but. The tornado then turned more to the east and crossed Highway 54. A nearby warehouse complex received roof damage and several empty truck trailers were pushed over.
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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 10, 2:45 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 345 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 LATEST SFC ANLYS SHWG CDFNT STRETCHING FM NR KEMP TO NORTH OF KCOU AND KSTL TO NR KLAF WITH LRG SCALE OUTFLOW BNDRY FM MRNG CNVCTN VERY EVIDENT ON RADAR AND STLT FM JUST SOUTH OF KJEF THRU FRANKLIN CO TO SOUTH OF KMVN. AMS SOUTH OF THE OB HAS BCM PRETTY UNSTBL WITH CAPES AOA 2000 J/KG. SCT TSTRMS BGNG TO DVLP ON NWD MOVG OUTFLOW BNDRY ATTM. OTW LINEAR CLUSTER OF STRMS FM NE KS THRU WC MO BGNG TO INTERACT WITH OB ON THE WRN FRINGE. LLJ ALREADY BGNG TO BACK TO MORE SLY AND THIS COMBINED WITH SOME ASCENT ASSOCD WITH THE SHRTWV LIFTING THRU NE KS AND THE TWO BNDRYS SHUD LEAD TO BEST CNVCTV THREAT OVR THE NRN HALF OF THE CWFA. CONVECTIVE TRENDS OVR SE MO/SW IL A BIT VAGUE BUT LESSER THAN FURTHER NORTH. SOME HVY RN THREAT OVR NE MO/WC IL BUT LONGEVITY AND FAST MVMNT PRECLUDING ISSUANCE OF ANOTHER FFA ATTM. LCL HVY RAFL LAST NGT WAS PRETTY ISOLD...AND WL LET EVNG SHIFT ASSESS THE NEED FOR AN FFA SHUD IT ARISE. STILL LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY GOOD SQLN SHUD EVOLVE ACRS THE WRN PLAINS THIS EVENING...SWEEPING EWD IN ADVANCE OF THE EJECTING SW UPR LOW/TROF. BLV SQLN WL BE OVR ERN KS IN THE MRNG AND SHUD BE IN A WKNG PHASE. EITHER NEW LN OR REINTENSIFICATION OF THIS OLD SQLN SHUD OCCUR TMW IN ADVANCE OF THE DRYLN AS LRG SCALE FRCG INCRSS WITH LIFTING UPR TROF AND LOW LVLS UNDERGO DIURNAL DESTABILIZATION. SVR THREAT CERTAINLY BEARS WATCHING CLOSELY WITH STG WND FIELDS AND DP SHEAR. OTHER THING TO WATCH ON WED IS WNDS. THEY CUD HIT ADVSRY CRITERIA TMW AFT...SPCLY IN THE WAKE OF THE SFC DRYLN WHERE DP MXG BENEATH MID LVL DRY SLOT WL ENHANCE ALREADY TIGHTNING PRES GRAD. WL LET THE MID SHIFT ASSESS THIS NEED AS IT MAY BE NEEDED FOR EVNG AS WELL. DRYLN SHUD BE BTWN COU-STL BY 00Z THURS AND WL CONT MENTION OF EVNG POPS AS A RESULT. STEADY AS SHE GOES LATER PDS WITH NEW A VN INDCTG BEST PCPN THREAT ON FRI PROBABLY DURING THE NGT FM STL SWD. TMPS RETURN TO MORE SEASONABLE NORMS FOR THE WKND. .STL...NONE GLASS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
210 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1132 AM FOSTERBURG IL 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/10/01 MADISON 3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL
REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
100 PM ST. ELMO IL 0.88 INCH HAIL
04v/10/01 FAYETTE REPORTED BY TRAINED STORM
SPOTTERThe St Louis radar (KLSX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:18 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Callaway | 2001-04-11 | 45 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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