Missouri, 2001

Hail in Missouri, October 23, 2001

October 23, 2001 · NWS LSX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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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 Oct 23, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours 7 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, 4:52 PM CST, 2 hours 15 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   OSAGE
Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:30 PM CST, 1 hour 37 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   OSAGE
Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:36 PM CST, 1 hour 31 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
                                          OBSERVER
Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:39 PM CST, 1 hour 28 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.
Local storm report, Oct 23, 6:47 PM CST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
747 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0715 PM    2W UNION                  MO   0.75 INCH HAIL
10/23/01   FRANKLIN                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          MILES WEST OF UNION.
Local storm report, Oct 23, 7:05 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
805 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0757 PM    1W ST. PAUL               MO   WIND DAMAGE
10/23/01   ST CHARLES                     TREE DOWN BY HIGH WINDS 1
                                          TO 2 MILES WEST OF ST.
                                          PAUL ALONG HIGHWAY P

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:03 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, St. Louis

When
October 23, 7:07 PM CST
Where
St. Louis County, Ellisville
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
38.600, -90.583

Storm spotters reported nickel size hail in the Wildwood area of west St. Louis County.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5270757.