Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- September 18, 5:42 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Frankford
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -91.333
Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees in the Frankford area.
Damaging Wind in Missouri, September 18, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Sep 18, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CDT TUE SEP 18 2001 850 MSTR WAS POOLED OVR THE SRN GRT PLNS INTO THE SW OZARKS THIS MRNG WITH 15 DEWPTS. FINALLY GOT SGNFNT MSTR CNVGC INTO THE RGN WITH WDSPRD RAIN. AREA OF HVIER RAIN IS SWINGING ACRS E MO ATTM. HVY RAIN MAY OCCUR THIS EVE ACRS PTNS OF AREA BUT SHOULD TAPER OFF BY MIDN. ETA FCSTS SGNFNT VERT MTN THIS EVE ACRS NE MO BCK INTO CNTRL IL BUT BY MIDN ITS LONG GONE. FRNTL SCALE AND SYNOPTIC FRCGG SLIDE OFF TO THE SE AND E DURING THE EVE. MSAS FM 18Z INDICATED LRG AREA OF SFC MSTR CNVGC CONTS ACRS W CNTRL INTO CNTRL MO WITH LIS BCMG MORE UNSTBL ACRS THE OZARKS. S/WV FCST TO DROP DWN INTO THE MIDWEST ON THU WITH NXT CHC OF PCPN. IN THE EXTNDD PD, THE AVN IS SHARPER WITH THE CLOSED LOW/TROF AT H5 ACROS THE UPR MIDWEST. NEW UKMO AND MONS ECMWF ARE MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH TROF MOVG ACRS THE OH VALLEY. MODELS THEN BUILD LRG RDG ACRS THE ROCKIES BY SUN MRNG WITH CLOSED LOW FCST TO RMN OVR THE GRT LKS RGN. .STL...NONE
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:42 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 Flood and Hail in Texas, September 18 to 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, September 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 18, 2001
- Hail in Texas, September 18, 2001
- Heavy Rain in Wisconsin, September 18 to 19, 2001
- Waterspouts in Florida, September 18, 2001
- Flooding in Illinois, September 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, September 18, 2001
- Flood in Oklahoma, September 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Puerto Rico, September 18, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, September 18, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, September 18, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, September 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: 5267918.