Name: Hail in Missouri, May 6, 2001
Start: 2001-05-06T20:15
End: 2001-05-06T20:15
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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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 May 6, 3:16 PM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:16 PM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
310 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001

GOING ZNS CONT TO HV A GD HNDL ON UPCOMING WX TRENDS ACR FA.  2ND WV
OF PCPN TO AFFECT LSX CWFA OVR THE PAST 24 HRS GETTING READY TO CLR
THE MS RVR...AND SHUD EXIT OUR NE IL COUNTIES SHRTLY AFT ZN ISSUANCE
TIME.  3RD AND FINAL ROUND OF PCPN ASSOC WITH SYS OVR PLAINS CONTS
TO FORM ATTM ALG CDFNT/DRYLN FROM NW MO INTO CNTRL OK.

IN THE NR TERM...TREND OF THIS FINAL WV OF PCPN IS THE MAIN CONCERN
FOR OUR AREA.  OMEGA PROGS FOR 3 CONSECUTIVE RUNS HV BEEN STGLY
HINTING THAT THIS CNVTN SHUD REALLY GET ROLLING OVR W MO BY LT
AFTN...WITH THE CENTROID OF THE COMPLEX TENDING TO DROP SE INTO AR
DURG THE OVRNGT HRS.  THIS DOESNT SEEM OUT OF THE QUESTION SINCE
DYNAMICS OVR AREA ARE WKNG AS UPR SYS LFTS NWD...SO CNVTN MAY BECOME
MORE DOMINATED BY THERMODYNAMICS/LO LVL FORCING MECHANISMS.  WHILE
AMS OVR W MO FAIRLY UNSTBL...AIR IS REALLY JUICED OVR TX AND OK...SO
STMS MAY TEND TO DVLP SWD INTO THIS AMS WITH TIME.  AND
FINALLY...AMS OVR E HLF MO MUCH MORE STBL DUE TO THIS AFTNS
PCPN...WHICH WL TRY TO INHIBIT THE STMS AS THEY MV INTO E MO.
THINK ALL OF THIS MEANS THAT WHILE PCPN CHCS OVR OUR AREA WL RMN IN
THE LIKELY CATEGORY... RAINFALL AMTS MAY NOT BE ALL THAT GRT AS
FIRST ANTICIPATED BY LKG AT DVLPG LN OF STMS OUT WEST.

CDFNT WL SWEEP ACR AREA ON MON...ENDING PCPN THRT AND GRDLY CLRG
SKIES FROM W TO E.  COOLER AMS DROPPING INTO AREA BHND CDFNT WL DROP
TEMPS BACK TO NR OR SLGTLY BLO NORMAL TEMPS THRU MIDWK.  AGAIN...MDL
RUNS HV BEEN QUITE CONSISTENT WITH THIS TREND FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS.

SCNDRY SHTWV FCST TO BRUSH AREA MON NGT MAY PRODUCE A FEW CLDS...BUT
WITH LO LVLS RMNG QUITE DRY WL LV PCPN OUT OF FCST.

.STL...NONE
TRUETT

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Cole

When: May 6, 8:15 PM CST
Where: Cole County, Jefferson City
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.583, -92.183

Severe storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.

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: 5244665.