Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln
- When
- August 10, 10:05 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County, Hawk Pt
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.967, -91.133
Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some power lines in Hawk Point.
Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 10, 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
- 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 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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 1:45 PM CST, 8 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 1:45 PM CST, 8 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 245 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 FEW SHWRS IN CNTL MO ARE EFFECTING COU ARE WITH SCT -R...KP CHC FOR THIS EVE. MOST OF THE CWA WL BE DRY THIS EVE AND TNGT. AVN SHWD FNT S OF STL...BUT IS HINTING A GOOD CHC FOR THE STL METRO AREA ON SAT...AND MAVSTL SHWD 60% FOR SAT WHLE FWC IS ONLY 27%...ANY PCPN WL BE S OF STL METRO AREA...SO KP A CHC IN FAM GROUP. ON A LARGE SCALE...BIG HIGH DRFTNG IN THE SWRN PTN OF THE U.S. WITH WEAK ZONAL FLW ACRS NRN PLAINS. MRF SHWD ANOTHER CDFNT PUSHING S INTO MO BY THU AND FRI....SO INTRODUCE A CHC IN THE FCST. FEW SHWRS W AND CNTRL MO TNGT...LOWS WL BE IN THE 60S TO ARND 70. COOLER WX WL CONTINUE ON SAT AND WRMR WX ON SUN. FWCS FCST A BIT WARMER THAN MAVS...I THINK HIGH TEMPS WL BE BTWN FWCS AND MAVS. .STL...NONE.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:06 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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Texas, August 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, August 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: 5262798.