1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 3, 9:10 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1010 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001 85H FNT...WHICH WAS SMWHAT ACTIVE STL VCNTY THIS EVE...REALLY BGNG TO LIGHT UP NOW OVR NE KS/NW MO AS LO LVL JET BGNS PUMPING 15-18C DWPTS INTO IT. ALTHO THIS IS SLGTLY FURTHER N THAN ERYR ANTICIPATED...QUICK GLIMPSE AT 00Z RUNS INDICATE THAT 85H FNT WL BE NR A MKC-COU-STL LN OVRNGT...WHICH SHUD STILL BE A GD FIRST ESTIMATION OF AXIS OF HVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...WONDER IF ACTIVITY MIGHT DROP A LTL MORE SWD WITH TIME AS CAP CONTS TO ERODE CLOSER TO SFC FNT...NR KS/OK BDR. FFA CNTRL/E CNTRL MO AND XTRM SW IL STILL LKS QUITE GD...AND NO CHGS RQRD. .STL...FFW FOR MOST OF CENTRAFL AND E-CNTRL MO TNGT. TRUETT
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095-097>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-034 >036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-041100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1005 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THREAT: SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE AREA. WHEN: TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. SITUATION: A WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE OKLAHOMA-KANSAS BORDER TO NORTHERN ARKANSAS WILL BEGIN PUSHING NORTH OVERNIGHT. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL BE FORCED NORTHWARD BY STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS...LEADING TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE REGION. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN...SOME OF THESE STORMS W/ILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. TRUETT
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 171 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:01 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike is believed to have been the cause of a fire that destroyed the building of an antique business in Clarence.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, June 2001
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: 5258557.