Hail in Missouri, September 20, 2001

Name: Hail in Missouri, September 20, 2001
Start: 2001-09-20T20:45
End: 2001-09-20T20:45
Location: Missouri

September 20, 2001 · NWS SGF · 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.

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 20, 1:00 PM CST, 7 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 1:00 PM CST, 7 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
200 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

MAIN FOCUS THIS PERIOD WILL BE WITH 1) THUNDERSTORM AND SEVERE
CHANCES TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING 2) THUNDERSTORM CHANCES
SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AND 3) AMOUNT OF COOL DOWN AFTER SUNDAYS
COLD FRONT.

SURFACE FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO WESTERN
IOWA.  BIG DEW POINT DIFFERENCES NOTED ON SURFACE ANALYSIS.  ALONG
THE FRONT...DEW POINTS WERE FROM THE MID TO UPPER 60S...WHILE ACROSS
THE CWA...DEW POINTS REMAIN IN THE 50S TO AROUND 60.  REMNANTS OF
THIS MORNINGS MCS HAVE PUSHED SOUTH INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN OK...
WHILE MORE NORTHERN SYSTEM TRACKING INTO NORTHEAST MO AND SOUTHEAST
IA.

FRONT APPEARS TO BE SLOWER TO MOVE EAST THAN YESTERDAYS MODEL RUNS
AND IT LOOKS LIKE STORM INITIATION WILL OCCUR FURTHER WEST ACROSS
CENTRAL KS.  STORMS WILL THEN PROGRESS EAST INTO THE CWA LATE THIS
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS MCS SHOULD DEVELOP.  WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST
POPS ACROSS SOUTHWEST COUNTIES AND LOWEST ACROSS THE EAST.

FRONT LOOKS TO SLOWLY PUSH ACROSS THE CWA DURING THE MORNING HOURS
FRIDAY...AND WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN THE EAST FOR THE MORNING.  HIGH
PRESSURE WILL MOVE IN FOR A BRIEF PERIOD...BEFORE PATTERN UNDERGOES
MAJOR AMPLIFICATION FOR THE END OF THE WEEKEND.  ON SATURDAY...NEXT
WAVE DROPS INTO MINNESOTA ALLOWING NEXT FRONT TO DROP INTO NORTHERN
KANSAS AND CENTRAL IOWA.  THIS FRONT SHOULD MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN
CWA BY SUNDAY MORNING.  WILL PUT IN POPS FOR LATE SATURDAY NIGHT
AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY AS THIS MAJOR SYSTEM MOVES
THROUGH. MUCH COLDER AIR FROM CANADA BEHIND THIS SYSTEM...WITH AVN
SHOWING -2 DEGREES C AT 850 MOVING INTO THE NE PORTION OF CWA ON
SUNDAY NIGHT.  THIS COOL DOWN LOOKS TO LAST INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT
WEEK WITH UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM GETTING CUT OFF AND RETROGRADING
WESTWARD.

FCSTID = 5
SGF   60  77  54  80 /  50  20  10  10
JLN   64  80  57  83 /  60  20  10  10
UNO   57  80  54  81 /  40  30  10  10
VIH   60  77  53  79 /  50  20  10  10

.SGF...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

LINDENBERG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 20, 7:25 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
825 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

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

0815 PM    STOVER                    MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/01   MORGAN                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Sep 20, 7:32 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
832 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

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

0825 PM    10 N VERSAILLES           MO   1 INCH HAIL
09/20/01   MORGAN                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Sep 20, 7:40 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
840 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

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

0835 PM    GRAVOIS MILLS             MO   .88 INCH HAIL
09/20/01   MORGAN                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Sep 20, 8:01 PM CST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
901 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

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

0857 PM    ROCKY MT                  MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/01   MORGAN                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Sep 20, 8:05 PM CST, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
905 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

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

0855 PM    ELDON                     MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/01   MILLER                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Sep 20, 8:22 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
922 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001

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

0922 PM    GRAVOIS MILLS             MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/01   MORGAN                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Morgan

When: September 20, 8:45 PM CST
Where: Morgan County, 5 mi SE of Gravois Mills
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.267, -92.750

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

Every storm in Missouri in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5268120.