Hail, Maries
- When
- October 23, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Maries County, 10 mi SW of Vienna
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.083, -92.083
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 23, 1:10 PM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 1:10 PM CST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 210 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001 MAIN FOCUS THIS PERIOD WILL BE WITH SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THEN WITH TEMPERATURES. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS SHORTWAVE RESPONSIBLE FOR CURRENT CONVECTION...OVER OK PUSHING EASTWARD INTO SOUTHERN MO AND AR. NEXT WAVE WHICH WAS PUSHING INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL BE THE SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY. CURRENT SYSTEM SHOULD PUSH TO THE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING...HOWEVER WITH MOISTURE STILL PLENTIFUL AND CAPES IN THE 1000-1500 J/KG RANGE WILL HOLD ON TO SCATTERED EVENING POPS. WILL HAVE GFE GRIDS CLEARING THINGS OUT LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT. NOSE OF 120KT JET WILL DIVE SE INTO KS BY 12Z WITH GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE OVER THE CWA BY MIDDAY. MODELS SHOWING GOOD LIFT WITH THIS SYSTEM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA...HOWEVER MOISTURE DOES NOT LOOK IMPRESSIVE UNTIL LATER IN THE DAY ACROSS EASTERN MO. WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE WEST DESPITE LOW MOS VALUES DUE TO DYNAMICS OF SYSTEM. WILL KEEP POPS AROUND 30 HOWEVER. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND THE SURFACE FRONT AND SHOULD HAVE 20 TO 25 MPH SUSTAINED WINDS TOMORROW. WINDS DIMINISH TO AROUND 10 BY THE EVENING WITH A CLEARING SKY. REMAINDER OF WEEK LOOKS TO STAY COOL WITH NW FLOW ALOFT CONTINUING. HIGH PRESSURE AND A DRY ATMOSPHERE SHOULD KEEP SKY MOSTLY CLEAR DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. MAY SEE NEXT HARD FROST ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT AS SURFACE HIGH SETTLES OVER THE AREA. ISC GRIDS HAVE BEEN SENT. PRELIMINARY FORECAST GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY. FCSTID = 5 SGF 58 66 36 56 / 30 30 0 0 JLN 59 67 40 59 / 30 30 0 0 UNO 61 72 37 56 / 30 30 0 0 VIH 58 66 34 54 / 30 30 0 0 .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. LINDENBERG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 23, 4:33 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
MOZ055>058-068>071-080-081-083-240300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 533 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 796...IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BENTON...CAMDEN...DALLAS...DENT...HICKORY...LACLEDE...MARIES... MILLER...MORGAN...PHELPS AND PULASKI. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE CAMDENTON... FORT LEONARD WOOD...LEBANON...OSAGE BEACH AND ROLLA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH THE MID-EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. 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. CISSELL/TERRY
Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:19 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
619 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0427 PM ELDON MO .75 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 MILLER REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0430 PM 10 E ROCKY MT MO TORNADO
10/23/01 MILLER REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0445 PM GRAVOIS MILLS MO 1 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 MORGAN REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0540 PM GRAVOIS MILLS MO .88 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 MORGAN REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVERLocal storm report, Oct 23, 5:44 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
644 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0443 PM ELDON MO .88 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 MILLER REPORTED BY SHERIFF
DEPARTMENT.
0627 PM CROCKER MO .88 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 PULASKI REPORTED BY SHERIFF
DEPARTMENT.
0630 PM TUSCUMBIA MO .75 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 MILLER REPORTED BY SHERIFF
DEPARTMENT.Local storm report, Oct 23, 6:07 PM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
707 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0443 PM CROCKER MO .88 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 PULASKI REPORTED COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Oct 23, 6:27 PM CST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
727 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0725 PM DIXON MO 1.00 INCH HAIL
10/23/01 PULASKI REPORTED COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Oct 23, 6:37 PM CST, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
737 PM CDT TUE OCT 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0627 PM CROCKER MO SEVERAL ROOFS BLOWN OFF
NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN
10/23/01 PULASKI REPORTED BY SHERIFF OFFICE.The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:52 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: 5271205.