Thunderstorm Wind, Wright
- When
- April 3, 2:12 PM CST to 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Wright County, Hartville
- Property damage
- $3.0 million
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -92.517
Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 3, 2001
Golfball to baseball sized hail was common across portions of Wright County. Almost every house in Hartville needed roof repair, plus over 200 vehicles were damaged.
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
- $3.0 million
- 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.
Golfball to baseball sized hail was common across portions of Wright County. Almost every house in Hartville needed roof repair, plus over 200 vehicles were damaged. The heaviest concentration of damage was about two miles south of Hartville, to about five miles north. Insurance companies estimated that over three million dollars damage in the Hartville area alone, with an average of $7500 per home, and $5700 for each car. Hartville high school also suffered damage to its gym and buses. Along with the hail damage, localized straight line winds uprooted numerous trees and power lines around Hartville. Along with the three million dollars in Hartville, this storm created another million in damages as it tracked into Texas County.
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, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 10:55 AM CST, 3 hours 17 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 11:15 AM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1215 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1056 AM IONIA MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 BENTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1205 PM 2 N BARNETT MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MORGAN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Apr 3, 11:39 AM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1239 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....l
1214 PM ELDON MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MILLER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1238 PM SUNRISE BEACH MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 CAMDEN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Special weather statement, Apr 3, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-041100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THE MISSOURI OZARKS... A WARM FRONT...EXTENDING FROM NEAR FORT SCOTT KANSAS TO FORT LEONARD WOOD...WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON... AND INTERACT WITH THE WARM FRONT...TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION WILL REMAIN SLIGHTLY TO MODERATELY UNSTABLE THROUGH THE DAY...WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. STORM OUTFLOW COULD BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE LOCATED GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THE DAY. .OUTLOOK FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... WARM AIR IN THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION...DECREASING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY NIGHT AS THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES THE AREA. GAEDE
Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:55 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
155 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1202 PM VERSAILLES MO FLOOD
04/03/01 MORGAN STREET FLOODING.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1242 PM ST ELIZABETH MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MILLER DIME HAIL COVERNING THE
GROUND.
1242 PM ELDON MO FLOOD
04/03/01 MILLER FLOODING REPORTED NEAR
ELDON. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0123 PM VIENNA MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MARIES
0142 PM ST JAMES MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 PHELPS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0145 PM DOOLITTLE MO .75 INCH HAIL
0m4/03/01 PHELPSSpecial weather statement, Apr 3, 1:26 PM CST, 46 minutes before
MOZ069>071-080>083-090>092-095>098-104>106-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 226 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 84...IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: CAMDEN...CHRISTIAN...DALLAS...DENT...DOUGLAS...GREENE...HOWELL... LACLEDE...OREGON...OZARK...PHELPS...PULASKI...SHANNON...TANEY... TEXAS...WEBSTER AND WRIGHT. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE AVA... BRANSON...CAMDENTON...FORT LEONARD WOOD...HOUSTON...LEBANON...OSAGE BEACH...OZARK...ROLLA...SPRINGFIELD AND WEST PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL MEDIA OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR ADDITIONAL sINFORMATION. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF OR AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:13 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
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- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
- High Wind in Georgia, April 3 to 4, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, April 3, 2001
More
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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: 5240443.