Hail, Franklin
- When
- October 23, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, Gerald
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 38.400, -91.317
Franklin County Emergency Management reported 3/4 inch hail in Gerald.
Hail in Missouri, October 23, 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 Oct 23, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001 SHWRS/TSTMS CONT TO MOVE ACRS THE ERN OZARKS IN AREA OF HIER MSTR. AREA IN FVRBL RGN OF RRQ OF UPR JET. ETA FCSTS DECENT DVRGC ACRS SE MO THIS EVE AND THEN MOVES AREA INTO KY BY MIDN. STRG COLD FNT WILL MOVE ACRS THE AREA ON WED. AVN AND ETA ARE FAILY CLOSE AT 12Z WITH FNT FCST TO BE NR A UIN-JLN LN. BY EVE THE FNT WILL BE WELL BYND THE BOOTHEEL. MESOETAS TEMPS LOOK RNSBL AND WILL FOLLOW FOR FCST ON WED. MODELS SUGGSTS BEST SVR POTENTIAL FOR WED WILL BE ACRS SE MO INTO E CNTRL IL. IN THE EXTNDD, THE MRF, NEW UKMO, AND MONS RUN OF ECMWF ARE VERY SMLR AT H5 FOR SAT MRNG WITH HUGH RDG ACRS THE ROCKIES AND DEEP TRO ALG THE APPLACHIANS. 12Z AVN AND UKMO MOVE TROF OFF THE E COAST BY SUN MRNG WHILE 00Z MRF AND MONS ECMWF HOLD TROF ALF THE E COAST. AS A RESULT, MUCH WARMER AIR AT 850 SPREADS ACROS THE RGN BY SUN WITH AVN FCSTG +6C ACRS CNTRL MO WHILE OLD MRF FCST -8C. LRG CANADIAN SFC HI SLIDES DWN INTO THE RGN AND IS FCST TO BE CNTRD OVR E MO NOON SAT. THIS HI COMES RIGHT OFF THE ICEFIELDS PARKWAY OF ALBERTA. .STL...NONE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 23, 1:52 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
252 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0220 PM 4SE IRONTON MO WIND DAMAGE
10/23/01 IRON TREES DOWNED ACROSS
COUNTY ROAD D.
0235 PM FREDERICKTOWN MO WIND DAMAGE
10/23/01 MADISON POWER LINES DOWNED.
0235 PM FREDERICKTOWN MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 MADISON QUARTER SIZED HAIL
ACCUMULATING ON THE
GROUND TO A DEPTH OF 2 TO
3 INCHES DEEP.Local storm report, Oct 23, 2:24 PM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
324 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM 2E FREDERICKTOWN MO WIND DAMAGE
10/23/01 MADISON SEVERAL LARGE TREES
DOWNED. SEVERE DAMAGE TO
ONE HOUSE TRAILER CAUSED
BY FALLING TREES.Local storm report, Oct 23, 4:52 PM CST, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
552 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0538 PM META MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 OSAGELocal storm report, Oct 23, 5:30 PM CST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
630 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0538 PM META MO 1.50 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 OSAGELocal storm report, Oct 23, 5:36 PM CST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
636 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM 10NE RICH FOUNTAIN MO 0.75 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 OSAGE REPORTED BY COOP WEATHER
OBSERVERLocal storm report, Oct 23, 5:39 PM CST, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
639 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM DRAKE MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 GASCONADE REPORTED BY GASCONADE
COUNTY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT.The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:51 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
- Tornado in Missouri, October 23, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, October 23 to 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, October 23, 2001
- High Wind in Nebraska, October 23, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, October 23, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, October 23, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, October 23, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, October 23, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, October 23, 2001
- High Wind in Oregon, October 23, 2001
- Hail in Missouri, October 23, 2001
- Hail in Illinois, October 23 to 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5270754.