Missouri, 2001

Hail in Missouri, July 5, 2001

July 5, 2001 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 4, 1:16 PM CST, 12 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:16 PM CST, 12 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
216 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2001

MAIN FOCUS WILL BE WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES IN THE FIRST 2
PERIODS...THEN SHIFTING TO TEMPERATURES.

MCS PUSHED THROUGH THE CWA THIS MORNING WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY
PUSHING WELL INTO ARKANSAS.  THIS BOUNDARY HAS DEVELOPED
THUNDERSTORMS DOWN IN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON.  NOT MUCH HAPPENING
YET ACROSS CWA IN THE WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM...DESPITE TEMPERATURES IN
THE UPPER 80S TO LOW 90S WITH DEW POINTS FROM THE UPPER 60S TO LOW
70S.  MAY SEE SOME LATE AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT BUT WILL LIMIT POPS
TO 30 ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN MO AND INTO SE KS.

MAIN ACTION SHOULD SET UP TONIGHT ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS OF
NEBRASKA/WYOMING AS SHORTWAVE DROPS INTO THETA E RIDGE AND AREA OF
HIGH INSTABLITY.  WILL LIKELY SEE ANOTHER MCS DEVELOP THERE...
PROPAGATING SE AND INTO SE KS/SW MO TOWARDS 12Z.  WILL CONTINUE 30
POPS IN SE KS/SW MO FOR LATE TONIGHT...INCREASING TO 50 PERCENT
DURING THE MORNING.  NORTHEAST CWA LOOKS TO REMAIN DRY.  MAY ALSO
SEE SOME AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM MCS.

UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BECOMES MORE ESTABLISHED OVER THE AREA BY FRIDAY
AND THEN INTO THE WEEKEND.  WITH VERY WARM 850 TEMPS NUDGING INTO
THE AREA AND 700 MB TEMPS OF 12 TO 14 DEGREES...SHOULD SEE HOT AND
DRY WEATHER SETTING UP.  FUTURE SHIFTS MAY NEED TO START
CONSIDERING HEAT ADVISORY.

PRELIMINARY CCF:
FCSTID = 05

SGF   70  87  69  90 /  30  30  0  10
JLN   71  89  71  93 /  30  50  0  10
UNO   70  90  68  91 /  30  30  0  10
VIH   68  88  68  89 /  20  20  0  10

LINDENBERG

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Polk

When
July 5, 1:30 AM CST
Where
Polk County, Humansville
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
37.800, -93.583

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

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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: 5258263.