Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 27, 2001

Name: Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 27, 2001
Start: 2001-06-27T15:30
End: 2001-06-27T15:30
Location: Missouri

June 27, 2001 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Large trees and power lines were blown down near Osceola. Nickel size hail was also reported.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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 happened

The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.

Large trees and power lines were blown down near Osceola. Nickel size hail was also reported.

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 Jun 27, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
312 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

PROBLEM CONTINUES TO BE THE RETROGRADING UPPER LOW.

VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE CWFA THIS AFTN. MODIFIED KSGF
SOUNDING SHOWED CAPE OF 3400 J/KG...LI OF MINUS 10...AND TOTAL TOTALS
OF 55. WEAK INVERTED VEE FEATURE WILL POSE A DOWNBURST PROBLEM
IN THE STRONGEST STORMS.

APPROACH OF UPPER LOW BROUGHT COOLER AIR ALOFT AND THUS STEEPER
MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. LARGE CAPE VALUES
HAVE ENSURED THAT UPDRAFT STRENGTH WOULD BE STRONG...WHILE VEERING
WIND PROFILE WITH HEIGHT...ALBEIT WITH WEAK SPEEDS...HAVE ALLOWED
SOME STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED
QUARTER TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF AT LEAST 50KT.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COMBINED WITH SLOW STORM MOVEMENT WILL CAUSE
LOCALLIZED FLOODING.

WILL NOT ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH SINCE COVERAGE OF STORMS HAVE BEEN
ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED...HOWEVER LATER SHIFTS WILL HAVE TO
MONITOR THE FLOODING POTENTIAL IN CASE A FFA IS NECESSARY.

AS OF 245 PM...TSTMS WERE GROUPED IN A NORTH SOUTH LINE THAT XTNDD
FROM BENTON COUNTY TO TANEY COUNTY. THE FUTURE DVLPMNT OF STORMS
WILL DEPEND HIGHLY ON OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...AND UNFORTUNATELY WILL
HAVE TO BROAD BRUSH ZONES WITH POPS DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY.

VORT MAX IS FCST TO ROTATE INTO THE CWFA FROM THE NORTH THRU TNGT.
UVV ASSOC WITH THIS VORT MAX...VEERING WIND PROFILE WITH HEIGHT...
250MB JET SEGMENT OF 60KTS FROM NERN TO SWRN MO...AND A VERY UNSTABLE
AIRMASS...WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL TSTMS TO FORM INTO THIS EVENING.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL BE OF THE PULSE SEVERE TYPE.

UNLIKE YESTERDAY...WHEN STORMS DISSIPATED NEAR SUNSET...THE STORMS
THIS EVENING MAY CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. THIS IS DUE TO SRLY FLOW
AT 850MB TNGT COMBINED WITH STRONG VEERING WITH HEIGHT...PLUS THE
STEEP LAPSE RATES AT MID LEVELS. DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTIES WITH THE
AREAL PLACEMENT OF FUTURE STORMS...BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF BOUNDARIES
OR THE UNKNOWN FUTURE PLACEMENT OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...WILL HAVE TO
BROADBRUSH ZONES WITH 50 PCT POPS TNGT. HOWEVER ETA WOULD SUGGEST
THAT THE WESTERN ZONES WOULD HAVE THE BETTER CHANCE TONIGHT.

FINALLY...UPPER LOW WILL BE PARKED OVER MO ON THURS AND FRI BEFORE
MOVING SLOWLY SSWD TOWARDS TX ON SAT. WILL KEEP POPS FAIRLY HIGH
ON THURS AND FRIDAY. WILL KEEP MENTION OF PCPN ON SAT...ALTHOUGH THE
SOUTHERN MOST COUNTIES MAY BE THE ONLY ONES AFFECTED.

FOR THE REST OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD...UPPER LOW WILL CONTINUE A
WEAKENING TREND AS IT MOVES INTO ERN TX. THIS FCST IS BASED ON MRF
AND YESTERDAYS ECMWF. CANADIAN MODEL MOVES UPPER LOW INTO MISSISSIPPI
BY MONDAY...THIS DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT. MRF FCSTS COLD FRONT TO MOVE
IN THE AREA LATE TUESDAY AND MAY BRING A CHANCE OF PCPN.

.SGF...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

D.STEINMETZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:04 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
304 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0254 PM    SPARTA                    MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   CHRISTIAN                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:07 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
307 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0300 PM    PLAD                      MO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   DALLAS                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
325 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0315 PM    3 S OZARK                 MO   1 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   CHRISTIAN                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:29 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
329 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0307 PM    3 S PLAD                  MO   .88 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   DALLAS                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:33 PM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
333 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0330 PM    LONG LANE                 MO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   DALLAS                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:22 PM CST, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
422 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0230 PM    5 N SPARTA                MO   .88 INCH HAIL
06/27/01   CHRISTIAN                      REPORTED BY MEDIA.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, St. Clair

When: June 27, 3:30 PM CST
Where: St. Clair County, Osceola
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.050, -93.700

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.

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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, June 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: 5250864.