Hail, Jefferson
- When
- June 29, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, De Soto
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.150, -90.567
The De Soto Police reported 3/4 inch hail.
Hail in Missouri, June 29, 2001
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
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 29, 2:00 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:00 PM CST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 UPPER PTN SHWD UPPER LOW IN S-CNTRL MO. SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS WL CONTINUES TO DEVELOP WITH THIS CLOSD LOW. THE LI'S ARE AROUND -4 RANGE IN SE AND S-CNTRL MO HAVE CONTRIBUTION FOR THIS DAYTIME TSTMS ACTIVITIES. MID TO UPPER LVL SHWD ENUF INSTABILITY FOR AFTN AND ERLY EVE TSTMS THRU WED. FWC AND MAV SHWD TEMPS IN THE 80S TO AROUND 90 FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS ACRS OUR CWA. UPPER RIDGE IN THE W IS MAKING A WEAK ADVACE INTO MO ON MON AND TUE. BY THURS A UPPER TROF IN THE NE IS SHOWING SIGN OF PUSHNG S INTO THE MIDWEST...THIS COULD KP MO FEW DGRS BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. $ FWCS AND MAVS ARE VERY CLOUSE...SEE DON'T REASON TO CHG. .STL...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 9:50 AM CST, 5 hours before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095-097>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-292300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 11 AM FRI JUN 29 2001 THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT: THERE IS NO THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. FOR THE PERIOD: THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE WEATHER OUTLOOK: AN UPPER WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF THE LINE FROM ST LOUIS METRO AREA TO COLUMBIA MISSOURI.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:48 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5251942.