Name: High Wind in Missouri, April 11, 2001
Start: 2001-04-11T23:28
End: 2001-04-11T23:28
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 happened

The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.

The Rolla/Vichy airport wind sensor reported a 58 mph wind gust.

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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 11, 7:15 PM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 7:15 PM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
815 PM CDT WED APR 11 2001

ZONE UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED BY 845 PM TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING.

MAIN QUESTION FOR THIS ZONE UPDATE IS WHAT TO DO WITH THE WIND
ADVISORY THAT IS TO EXPIRE AT 02Z. SURFACE OBSERVATIONS CONTINUED TO
INDICATE GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 KNOTS NORTH AND WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...
WITH JOPLIN GUSTING ABOVE 40 KNOTS. ALTHOUGH THE SURFACE LOW HAS
FILLED SLIGHTLY AND THE NEODESHA KANSAS/CONWAY MISSOURI WIND
PROFILERS SHOWED GRADUALLY DIMINISHING WINDS IN THE LOWER GATES...
WILL CONTINUE THE WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 4 AM FOR LOCATIONS NORTH AND
WEST OF SPRINGFIELD.

.SGF...
KS...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 4 AM FOR BOURBON...CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD
MO...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 4 AM ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM VIENNA
(MARIES COUNTY) TO LEBANON (LACLEDE COUNTY) TO GALENA (STONE COUNTY)

SUTTON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 11, 9:34 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1034 PM CDT WED APR 11 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 AM    5 NW PIERCE CITY          MO   WIND DAMAGE
04/11/01   LAWRENCE                       SHINGLES BLOWN OFF OF A
                                          ROOF. REPORTED BY MEDIA.

0210 PM    MANSFIELD                 MO   WIND DAMAGE
04/11/01   WRIGHT                         THREE LARGE TREES
                                          DOWNED.  SEVERAL TREES
                                          TOPPED OFF. A LARGE
                                          MACHINE SHED WAS ALSO
                                          DESTROYED. REPORTED BY
                                          MEDIA.

0500 PM    HIATTVILLE                KS   NON TSTM WINDS
04/11/01   BOURBON                        SIX BUILDINGS SUSTAIED
                                          ROOF DAMAGE. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          OFFICIAL.

1000 PM    NEVADA                    MO   NON TSTM WINDS
04/11/01   VERNON                         POWER LINES AND SEVERAL
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN BY
                                          HIGH WINDS ACROSS THE
                                          AREA. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Maries

When: April 11, 11:28 PM CST
Where: Maries forecast zone
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 38.162, -91.925 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Missouri in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, April 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: 5239656.