Hail in Missouri, July 18, 2001

Name: Hail in Missouri, July 18, 2001
Start: 2001-07-18T14:14
End: 2001-07-18T14:14
Location: Missouri

July 18, 2001 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 18, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:00 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
100 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

PRIMARY FCST CHALLENGE IS ON NEXT TWO VORTS. IR PICS SHOW 1ST POTENT
VORT JUST UPSTREAM WITH COOLING TOPS/INCREASING LTG STRIKES IN STL
VCNTY...EXTENDING WWARD ALONG QUASI-STNRY LOW LAYER BOUNDARY...AS
FAR WEST EVEN AS MCI. NOTE H7 CAPPING TEMPS 10-12C PLUS INHIBITING
CONVECTION IN STILL SOUPY AIR MASS TO SOUTH AND WEST OF BOUNDARY.

MODELS PRODUCE DIFFERING SOLUTIONS ON EXACT TRACKS AND TIMING OF TWO
COMPLEXES BUT IN GENERAL THEIR DIFFERENCES WON'T MAJORLY AFFECT ZFP
WORDING. PER RECENT COORDINATION WITH SPC...1ST POTENT VORT SLIDING
SE OUT OF STL WL BE ENCOUNTERING MOISTURE RICH AND DIURNALLY JUICED
ATMOSPHERE IN PAH FA...WITH UPCOMING WW FOR MUCH OF AREA THRU 23Z.
SHOULD BE A LULL THEN IN EARLY NIGHT ACTIVITY FOLLOWED BY LATE
NIGHT/EARLY MORNING NEXT CHC PCPN AS 2ND VORT TOPS RIDGE AND SLIDES
SE JUST EAST OF MID LEVEL CAPPING. SUM EFFECT IS HIGHEST POPS NORTH
AND EAST...TAPERING TO LOWER POPS SOUTH AND WEST THRU THU. MAY HAVE
TO LINGER POPS SW INTO THU NIGHT AS LOW LAYER BOUNDARY PIVOTS IN
WAKE OF AFOREMENTIONED SYSTEMS.

LATEST EXTENDED GUIDANCE MINIMIZES CHC PCPN AS BROAD SCALE UPPER
HIGH CIRCULATION AND MID LEVEL CAP STRENGTHENS...SO WL FOLLOW IN
LIKE MANNER WITH NEEDED EXTENDED MODIFICATIONS.

GUIDANCE IS GENERALLY IN SYNCH AND PERFORMING FAIRLY WELL...AND WITH
OVERALL PATTERN PERSISTENCE WL OFFER JUST MINOR TWEEKS.

.PAH...NONE.
DH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 12:27 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100-
110>112-114-182300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
127 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #574 IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE QUAD
STATE REGION UNTIL 600 PM...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF THE QUAD
STATE REGION UNTIL 600 PM.  THE ONLY COUNTIES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS
WATCH ARE CARTER, BUTLER AND RIPLEY COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE WARM... MOIST UNSTABLE
AIRMASS OVER THE REGION.  THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO
20 MPH AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 3/4 INCH
IN DIAMETER AND STRONG DAMAGING WIND OF GREATER THAN 60 MPH.  ALSO
ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND THE
THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE STORMS MAY REDEVELOP...OR BACK-BUILD...
TO THE NORTH AND WEST...WHICH COULD RESULT IN REPEAT STORMS OVER THE
SAME AREAS. THIS COMBINED WITH THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT MAKES
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ALSO A POSSIBLE THREAT.

SPOTTERS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN IN ALERT STATUS IN CASE THEIR
ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED.

IF LIGHTNING IS OCCURRIN(G AND A STURDY SHELTER IS NOT AVAILABLE...GET
INSIDE A HARD TOP AUTOMOBILE AND KEEP WINDOWS UP.

Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:40 PM CST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
240 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0234 PM    ZEIGLER                   IL   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   FRANKLIN                       TWO TREES REPORTED DOWN

Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:45 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
245 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0230 PM    REND LAKE                 IL   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   FRANKLIN                       NUMEROUS TREES AND LARGE
                                          LIMBS

Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:50 PM CST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
250 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0239 PM    CARBONDALE                IL   50 MPH WIND GUST
07/18/01   JACKSON                        WIND GUST REPORTED ON
                                          WEST SIDE OF CARBONDALE
                                          BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jul 18, 1:52 PM CST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
252 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0255 PM    CARBONDALE                IL   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   JACKSON                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN REPORTED BY
                                          CARBONDALE EOC

0255 PMd    JOHNSON CITY              IL   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   WILLIAMSON                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTERS

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:00 PM CST, 14 minutes before

ILZ081-084>086-088-089-MOZ076-182030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
300 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PARTS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND
   SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

AT 300 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM
NEAR GALATIA ILLINOIS TO PERRYVILLE MISSOURI. THESE STORMS ARE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND
GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA WILL REACH A
RUDEMENT ILLINOIS...TO JONESBORO ILLINOIS...TO UNIONTOWN MISSOURI
LINE BY 330 PM CDT.

JAP

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:16 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Perry

When: July 18, 2:14 PM CST
Where: Perry County, Brewer
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.783, -89.917

What these are

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

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, July 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: 5257512.