Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 24 to 25, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 24 to 25, 2001
Start: 2001-07-24T20:35
End: 2001-07-25T00:30
Location: Missouri

July 24 to 25, 2001 · NWS EAX · 16 events in 10 counties and zones

12 thunderstorm wind, 4 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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $13,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 16

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 Jul 24, 1:16 PM CST, 7 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 1:16 PM CST, 7 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
216 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001

FORECAST CONCERNS: PROB OF RAIN TONIGHT INTO WED...TEMP THRU WED
NITE.

NOCTURNAL CONVECT HAS PLAYED HAVOC ON TEMP AND PCPN IN RECENT
DAYS...AND ONCE AGAIN...SHORT TERM MODELS DIVERGENT ON FCST.
MCS CTNS TO TRACK WELL NORTH OF FA...WITH TRALING SHRA RMNG JUST
NORTH OF IA BORDER. CLDS RMN OVR NRN PART OF CWA FRM DEBRIS
LEFT FRM SHRA/TSRA EARLIER THIS MRNG. WEAK OUTFLOW/SFC TROF XTNDS
FRM NRN IA...ACRS SE NE...INTO WRN KS. ATMOS ESSENTIALLY UNCAPPED...BUT
WITH ONLY WEAK SFC CONV AND MAX TEMPS FLIRTING WITH CONVECT TEMPS...
DONT THINK TSRA WL REDEVELOP THIS AFTN...AS SYN SCALE SUB OCCURING
DUE TO PSG OF 70/50 DAM SHRTWV.

TONIGHT IS A TUFF CALL...LATEST WV LOOP INDICATES NXT SHRTWV TO OVERTOP
RDG LOCATED IN WRN NM. APPEARS TO BE A LTL STGR THAN MODELS ARE
INDICATING...WITH AVN HVG BEST HNDL OF SITN.  THIS FEATURE PROGGD TO
FIRE CONVECT ALNG FRNT RANGE THIS AFTN. MVMNT OF FEATURE
A LTL SLOWER AND FURTHER NORTH THAN EARLIER RUNS...THUS DEVELOPMENT OF
MCS WL BE LATER THAN EXPECTED.  BTR 85-70 DAM WAA LOCATED TO THE
WEST AND NORTH OF CWA...AND ZONE OF WEAK ISN LIFT XTNDS FRM ACRS NRN
KS INTO NRN MO. MODELS HINTING AT MCS DEVELOPMENT...BUT WHERE? WL
PLACE HIEST POPS IN NW...TAPERING TO LO CHC ALNG SRN TIER OF COUNTIES.
FEEL THE DEATH KNELL FOR EXC HEAT WRNG WL ARRIVE TMRW WITH CONVECT
DEBRIS AND SHRA.  NOT PLANNING TO XTND EXC HEAT WRNG BYND TONIGHT.

FEEL BNDRY WL NOT PUSH AS FAR SOUTH AS ETA/META SUGGESTING...AND
LEANING TWD WARMER FWC NUMBERS FOR WED.  CONSENSUS IN
SHORT TERM MODELS WITH REGARD TO BNDRY LOCATION ON THU...THAT
BEING SOUTH OF CWA. ENUF ISN LIFT AND WAA TO PRODUCE SCT SHRA/TSRA
ACRS SRN ZONES...SO WL LEAVE LO CHC POPS FOR THIS AREA. WL KEEP
FCST DRY FOR REST OF AREA ON THU INTO THU NITE.  NXT CHC OF
POPS COMES FRI AFTN INTO SAT MRNG...WITH AVN BRINGING PROGRESSIVE
SHRTWV THRU AREA.  TEMPS THURS THRU SAT WL BE NEAR NORMAL...WITH
BLDG RDG HTG THINGS UP LATE IN FCST PD.

.EAX...
MO...ZONES 28>33-37>40-43>46-53>54...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING THRU
TONIGHT.
KS...ZONES 28-57-60-103>105...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING THRU TONIGHT

24

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Mercer

When: July 24, 8:35 PM CST
Where: Mercer County, 2 mi NW of Princeton
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.417, -93.617

Thunderstorm Wind, Nodaway

When: July 24, 9:00 PM CST
Where: Nodaway County, 5 mi E of Hopkins
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.550, -94.717

Thunderstorm Wind, Putnam

When: July 24, 9:10 PM CST
Where: Putnam County, 1 mi E of Powersville
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.550, -93.283

8 inch tree limb down.

Hail, Grundy

When: July 24, 9:28 PM CST
Where: Grundy County, Spickard
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.250, -93.600

Ham radio reported 3/4 inch hail and measured 65 mph wind gusts.

Thunderstorm Wind, Sullivan

When: July 24, 10:03 PM CST
Where: Sullivan County, 3 mi W of Milan
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.200, -93.167

Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison

When: July 24, 10:14 PM CST
Where: Harrison County, 5 mi N of Bethany
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.333, -94.033

Thunderstorm Wind, Gentry

When: July 24, 10:25 PM CST
Where: Gentry County, 4 mi NW of Stanberry
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.250, -94.600

Large tree limbs reported down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison

When: July 24, 10:25 PM CST
Where: Harrison County, Bethany
Measured: 56 kt (64 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.267, -94.033

Hail, Gentry

When: July 24, 10:34 PM CST
Where: Gentry County, Stanberry
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.217, -94.550

Hail, Mercer

When: July 24, 10:45 PM CST
Where: Mercer County, 10 mi SE of Princeton
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.300, -93.450

Thunderstorm Wind, Daviess

When: July 24, 10:50 PM CST
Where: Daviess County, Jamesport
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 39.967, -93.817

Power line reported down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Grundy

When: July 24, 10:51 PM CST
Where: Grundy County, Trenton
Measured: 58 kt (67 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.083, -93.617

Thunderstorm Wind, Grundy

When: July 24, 10:52 PM CST
Where: Grundy County, 2 mi N of Trenton
Measured: 57 kt (66 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.117, -93.617

Thunderstorm Wind, Daviess

When: July 24, 11:05 PM CST
Where: Daviess County, 3 mi N of Lock Spgs
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph)
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 39.900, -93.783

Thunderstorm Wind, Adair

When: July 24, 11:19 PM CST
Where: Adair County, Irk Cannon Mem Arpt
Measured: 53 kt (61 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 40.100, -92.533

Thunderstorm Wind, Andrew

When: July 25, 12:30 AM CST
Where: Andrew County, 3 mi NNW of Fillmore
Measured: 57 kt (66 mph)
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.067, -95.000

2 foot diameter tree blown over crushing truck.

What these are

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

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: 5258369, 5258463, 5258464, 5258364, 5258465, 5258367, 5258362, 5258368, 5258363, 5258370, 5258360, 5258365, 5258366, 5258361, 5258358, 5258359.