Missouri, 2001

Hail in Missouri, June 19, 2001

June 19, 2001 · NWS LSX · 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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 2:15 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:15 PM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
315 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001

VERY LMTD NEW MDL GUID AVBL FOR THIS FCST PCKG DUE TO NCEP BACK-UP
TEST.  ONLY MDLS WERE AWFA MM5 AND LMTD NOGAPS AND CONFIDENCE IN THE
DETAILS OF THE AVBL FIELDS FM THESE IS NOT GREAT.  NEW ZN PCKG WL BE
WEIGHTED TWDS CURRENT TRENDS FOR THE FIRST PD AND THEN USE BASIC
MASS FIELDS FROM MM5.  WL ALSO GET A LK AT THE 18Z ETA BFR FINAL
RELEASE TO MAKE ANY LAST MINUTE ADJUSTMENTS.

LATEST SFC ANLYS AT 20Z HAD THE CDFNT FM FAR NW INDIANA TO SOUTH OF
UIN AND THRU MKC INTO SC KS.  A DEFINED PRE-FRONTAL TROF/CNVRGNC LN
WAS LCTD FM NR LAKE OF THE OZARKS TO JUST NORTH OF STL TO NR KLAF.
WITHIN THE LAST 20 MIN OR SO...STRMS ARE TRYING TO DVLP ALG THIS SRN
BNDRY ACRS THE LSX CWFA WHERE AIRMASS IS QUITE UNSTBL AND WKLY
CAPPED WITH LAPS CAPES AOA 2500 J/KG AND CIN LT 10 J/KG. IT WUD
APPEAR IF THERE IS ANY SVR THREAT THIS EVNG IT WUD BE WITH STRMS
FRMG INVOF OF THIS BNDRY HOWEVER WK SHEAR RAISES QUESTIONS ON
ORGANIZATION POTNTL AND AS DISCD YDA WL NEED TO SEE CLUSTERS DVLP
GOOD COLD POOLS FOR MUCH OTR THAN PULSE ACTVTY.

OTW VERY PERSISTENT SHRA/TSRA OVR NW MO/NE KS OCCURRING IN ASSOCN
WITH WK LLJ AND DVRGNC ALF IN ENTRANCE RGN OF UPR MS VLY ULJ.  WHILE
PCPN HAS STRUGGLED TO MOV EWD TDA...INDCTNS FM MM5 ARE THAT THE WK
LLJ BRANCH AND LRG SCALE FRCG SHUD SPRD EAST ACRS THE CWFA
TNGT...WITH WDSPRD PCPN DVLPG ACRS ALL BUT SRN PTNS OF THE AREA.
THERE ARE CERTAINLY SOME INDCTNS FOR HVY RAFL POTNTL INCLUDING K
INDICES INCRSG TO AOA 35 AND PW'S RISING TO ABV 1.5 IN BY LATER
TNGT.  THE PRESENCE OF THE E-W ORIENTED BNDRY...BROAD MOIST S TO SW
H85 FLOW ALG AND NORTH OF THE SFC BNDRY...GOOD LRG SCALE FRCG AND A
WK THCKNS GRAD SUGGEST THE POTNTL FOR SOME BACKBLG AND TRAINING.
PRIND ARE THE THREAT OF HVY RAFL WUD BE GREATEST OVR MID MO.  FFG
VLAUES ARE GENERALLY ABV 2 IN/3H.  CONFIDENCE IN THE DETAILS IS NOT
GREAT ENUF FOR A FFA ATTM BUT WL PASS ON CONCERNS TO NEXT SHIFT AND
JUST MENTION HVY RN IN THE ZNS.

WL KP FAIRLY HI POPS IN ON WED AS MOIST H85 FLOW AND SUBTLE IMPULSES
CONT TO TRACK ACRS THE RGN AND PROVIDE ASCENT ALG AND NORTH OF THE
BNDRY.  WL SLOWLY THEN TAPER POPS DOWNWARD WED NGT INTO
THURS...ENDING THEM FROM NORTH TO SOUTH.

ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE EXTDD AS NEW GUID HAS BACKED OFF UPR
LOW IN THE TN VLY AND NOW HAS AN IMPRSV SUMMER LIKE UtPR RDG BLDG
ACRS THE CNTRL U.S. ERLY NEXT WK.

.STL...NONE
GLASS

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Franklin

When
June 19, 6:37 PM CST
Where
Franklin County, Beaufort
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
38.417, -91.183

A storm spotter reported 3/4 inch hail in Beaufort.

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: 5251935.