Hail, Gentry
- When
- August 17, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Gentry County, Gentry
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.333, -94.433
Hail in Missouri, August 17, 2001
1 hail, 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 17, 12:57 PM CST, 10 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 12:57 PM CST, 10 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 157 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001 ...MAIN CONCERNS ARE PRECIP CHANCES THIS EVENING THEN AGAIN ON SATURDAY... SHORTWAVE TRACKING ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON WITH ASSOCIATED SHOWERS. PRECIP PRETTY LIGHT AT THIS TIME. ALSO WATCHING A DRY FRONT/TROF DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL NE THAT HAS SOME LIGHT PRECIP WITH IT. WILL LIKELY CONTINUE SCATTERED SHOWER WORDING THROUGH THE EVENING ACROSS CWA BUT WONDER IF SUBSIDENCE BEHIND SHORTWAVE MIGHT RULE OUT MUCH DEVELOPMENT ON INCOMING DRY FRONT. THERE IS SOME DECENT INSTABILITY SETTING UP ACROSS SOUTHERN NE PER MSAS DATA BUT LACK OF MOISTURE MAY PLAY A ROLE. WILL NEED TO MONITOR THIS AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AFTER THIS...A MORE POTENT SHORTWAVE DROPS SOUTH FROM THE LAKE WINNIPEG AREA WHERE CONVECTION IS ALREADY OCCURRING ALONG THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST SIDES OF VORT MAX. VORT MAX SHOULD REACH THE CWA SOMETIME SATURDAY MORNING. THE VORT MAX ALSO SEEMS TO BE TRACKING A LITTLE MORE TO THE SOUTHWEST OF PROGGED TRACKS FROM MODELS. WILL CONTINUE POPS ACROSS EASTERN ZONES AND LEAVE IT DRY OVER THE WEST. THIS WILL NEED SOME WATCHING HOWEVER AS MORE SOUTHWESTERLY TRACK COULD BRING PRECIP FARTHER WEST THAN EXPECTED. MESO-ETA ALSO SPINNING UP A SMALL CONVECTIVE VORT MAX NEAR KC AT 18Z AND DROPPING IT SOUTH. TEMPERATUREWISE...WILL STICK CLOSE TO LATEST GUIDANCE FOR TONIGHT. WILL GO COOLEST ON SATURDAY OVER NORTHEAST WHERE PRECIP AND CLOUDS COULD AFFECT TEMPERATURES. INCOMING COLD FRONT MAY NOT ALLOW FOR MAXIMUM HEATING TOMORROW SO WILL GO CLOSEST TO ETA SFC TEMPS. WITH VERY DRY AIR ACROSS CENTRAL NE THIS AFTERNOON BELIEVE COOLER MESO-ETA SFC TEMPS MORE IN LINE FOR SATURDAY NIGHT LOWS AND WILL STICK CLOSE. MODERATING TEMPS ON SUNDAY WITH UPPER 70S TO LOW 80S ANTICIPATED. IN THE EXTENDED...NOT A LOT TO TALK ABOUT AND WILL CONTINUE DRY FORECAST. ONE FEATURE TO WATCH IS A CONVECTIVE VORT MAX ON MONDAY THAT ROUNDS THE RIDGE AND DROPS SOUTH IN WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW THAT THE AVN AND MRF HAVE BEEN PROGGING FOR A COUPLE OF RUNS. LATEST AVN ALSO SHOWING MODERATE LOW LEVEL WAA OVER NORTHERN KS AND SOUTHERN NE MONDAY AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE WILL BE MAINLY SHOOTING FOR HIGHS IN THE 80S AND LOWS IN THE 60S THROUGH THE PERIOD. .EAX... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. 18
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 166 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:43 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornado in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Rip Current in Michigan, August 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, August 17 to 20, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 17, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 17, 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: 5264813.