Thunderstorm Wind, Osage
- When
- July 19, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County, 4 mi SW of Westphalia
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.417, -92.050
Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 19, 2001
Storm spotters reported nickel size hail and trees down southwest of Westphalia.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
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- 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
- 2
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 LSX wrote it up.
Storm spotters reported nickel size hail and trees down southwest of Westphalia.
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 Jul 19, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:45 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 345 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2001 SHRP RDG CONTINUES FM ERN TX NWD WITH WIDE TROPICAL PLUME ROTATING AROUND EDGE FM ROCKIES INTO S.D. THEN BACK SEWD THRU MO/IL. PRECIPTL H20 NR 2 INCHES TDA WITH VRY UNSTABLE AMD OVR WRN HLF MO. TOYED HEAVILY WITH ISSUING FFA BUT STILL UNSURE WHERE IT WILL END UP. EARLY PCPN NOW THRU MKC-COU-WPS BUT MORE THAN ONE MCS COULD RAKE THRU AREA THRU FCST PD AND LOCATION VERY UNSURE. MENTIONED LCLLY HVY RAIN IN SVRL ZONES...PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT GOT LOTS OF RAIN EARLIER TODAY. HAV EXTENDED PCPN THRU SAT NIGHT AS PERSISTANT RDG WILL HOLD THRU THE WEEKEND. WENT WITH SUBSTANTIALLY HIER POPS THAN GUIDANCE IN ALL PERIODS AND LOWERD TEMPS A CATEGORY OR TWO ESPECIALLY NR MISSISSIPPI RIVER. .STL...NONE. PEDIGO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:15 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Osage
- When
- July 19, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County, 4 mi SW of Westphalia
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.417, -92.050
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.
- 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
- Rip Current in Delaware, July 19 to 22, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2001
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Oregon, July 19, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, July 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 19, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 19 to 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, July 19, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5258456, 5258457.