Thunderstorm Wind, Dade
- When
- May 6, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dade County, Lockwood
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.383, -93.967
Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 6, 2001
Telephone and power lines were blown down around Lockwood.
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
- $3,000
- 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.
Telephone and power lines were blown down around Lockwood.
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 May 6, 12:30 PM CST, 8 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 12:30 PM CST, 8 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 130 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 PRIMARY FORECAST CHALLENGES INCLUDE PRECIPITATION TRENDS AND SEVERE STORM POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON/TONIGHT. MORNING RAIN AND LIMITED SURFACE MOISTURE HAS RESULTED IN ONLY WEAK INSTABILITY ACROSS THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON...NOTED BY PERSISTENT ALTOSTRATUS DECK. ACROSS WESTERN MO/SE KS...SURFACE INSOLATION HAS PUSHED TEMPS INTO THE LOWER-MIDDLE 70S HELPING THE AIRMASS TO RECOVER SOMEWHAT...BUT THIS WILL REMAIN THE MAIN LIMITING FACTOR FOR SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT. TO THE SOUTH...A WELL DEFINED WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH NORTH OF THE RED RIVER...AND WILL LIKELY BE THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE INITIATION AS DRY LINE PUSHES EAST ACROSS OK. POTENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH EJECTING OUT OF NEW MEXICO SHOULD PROVIDE AMPLE SHEAR ENVIRONMENT FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THIS REGION LATER THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...WITH DEPARTING SYSTEM OVER THE DAKOTAS...SHEAR PROFILES OVER MOST OF THE CWA WILL REMAIN RATHER WEAK. GIVEN LOW WET-BULB ZEROS AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE SOUNDINGS FORECAST BY THE ETA (CAPES 1500-2000 J/KG AND LIS -5 TO -8)...LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PREDOMINANT THREAT WITH ANY STORMS THIS EVENING. IF SHEAR PROFILE CAN BECOME MORE FAVORABLE IN TIME...THEN THE THREAT FOR SUPERCELLS ACROSS FAR SW MO/SE KS CERTAINLY EXISTS. SEVERE THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH FAIRLY QUICKLY BY LATE EVENING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. AS UPPER FLOW ALIGNS NEARLY PARALLEL TO SURFACE FRONT...SHOULD SEE SOME TRAINING OF CONVECTION WHICH WOULD BRING A GOOD SOAKER ON THE ORDER OF 0.50 TO 1 INCH TO SOUTHERN MISSOURI. ETA/AVN BOTH LOOK REASONABLE ON THE QPF FIELDS...HOWEVER AVN APPEARS TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON MASS FIELDS AFTER 00Z. WITH THAT IN MIND...WILL GO WITH A SLOWER PROGRESSION OF THIS SYSTEM...AND KEEP PRECIPITATION IN THE FORECAST ACROSS CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH AT LEAST MIDDAY MONDAY. OTHERWISE...SHOULD SEE FAIRLY RAPID CLEARING WITH STRONG MID LEVEL SUBSIDENCE AND SURFACE HIGH BUILDING IN. 500MB TROUGH AXIS FROM STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM OVER MONTANA WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS TUESDAY...BUT BEST FORCING SHOULD REMAIN FAR ENOUGH NORTH TO HAVE LITTLE INFLUENCE OTHER THAN AN INCREASE IN CLOUDINESS FOR MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY. AVN ATTEMPTS TO BRING SOME LIGHT PRECIP INTO THE AREA WEDNESDAY AS A VERY WEAK SURFACE TROUGH PUSHES ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER...WILL NOT BITE OFF ON THIS YET AS LACK OF MOISTURE AND WEAK FLOW WOULD NOT SUPPORT PRECIP. OTHERWISE...FLATTENING UPPER LEVEL FLOW PATTERN SHOULD KEEP TEMPERATURES FAIRLY NORMAL...WITH CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION AGAIN LOOKING DECENT FOR THURS NIGHT/FRIDAY AS NEXT SYSTEM PUSHES ACROSS THE AREA. PRELIMINARY FORECAST GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY... FCSTID = 14 SGF 55 70 45 72 / 70 30 0 0 JLN 54 71 47 75 / 70 10 0 0 UNO 58 69 48 76 / 70 60 0 0 VIH 56 68 45 74 / 70 40 0 0 .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. BOOKBINDER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 6, 6:04 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>057-066>069-077>081-088>091-094-095-070600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 704 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 208...IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARTON...BENTON...CAMDEN...CEDAR...CHRISTIAN...DADE...DALLAS... GREENE...HICKORY...JASPER...LACLEDE...LAWRENCE...MILLER...MORGAN... POLK...ST. CLAIR...VERNON AND WEBSTER. IN KANSAS: BOURBON...CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE BOLIVAR... CAMDENTON...FORT SCOTT...JOPLIN...LEBANON...MOUNT VERNON...NEVADA... OSAGE BEACH...OZARK...PITTSBURG...SPRINGFIELD AND STOCKTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 6, 6:06 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
MOZ093-101>103-070600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 706 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 209...IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING. THIS TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARRY...MCDONALD...NEWTON AND STONE. SOME CITIES IN THIS TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE MONETT AND NEOSHO. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 6 to 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 6, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 6, 2001
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 6, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 6, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 6, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 6, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, May 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: 5245386.