Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001

Name: Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
Start: 2001-04-03T11:05
End: 2001-04-03T11:05
Location: Missouri

April 3, 2001 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Quarter sized hail was also reported west of Barnett.

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.

Quarter sized hail was also reported west of Barnett.

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 3, 10:55 AM CST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 10:55 AM CST, 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1155 AM CDT TUE APR 3 2001

WARM FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM ABOUT FT. SCOTT TO LEBANON TO WEST
OF WEST PLAINS. BEGINNING TO SHOW UP RATHER WELL ON VISIBLE
SATELLITE IMAGE.  CONVECTION TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT HAS PRODUCED
SOME HAIL REPORTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA.

HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO LOWER AFTERNOON HIGHS TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF
THE WARM FRONT.  BELIEVE CLOUDS AND RAIN WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN THERE.
HOWEVER...HAVE RAISED HIGHS TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT WHERE CLOUDS
HAVE MIXED OUT FAIRLY WELL THIS MORNING AND TEMPS HAVE ALREADY SHOT
UP INTO THE 70S.

.SGF...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

GAEDE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:05 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Morgan

When: April 3, 11:05 AM CST
Where: Morgan County, 2 mi N of Barnett
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: STORM CHASER
Coordinates: 38.417, -92.667

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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

The same day elsewhere

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: 5240344.