Hail, Carter
- When
- September 8, 5:49 PM CST
- Where
- Carter County, Ellsinore
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.933, -90.750
Hail in Missouri, September 8, 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 8, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:00 PM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 LINE OF STORMS THAT CROSSED THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING HAS STABILIZED THE ATMOSPHERE. SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SHORTWAVE MAY ALSO BE KEEPING A LID ON DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM IS WHEN CONVECTION WILL RETURN. WITH 20 TO 30 KNOT LOW LEVEL JET...ABUNDANT DEEP MOISTURE...AND A FEW MORE HOURS OF SURFACE HEATING...SCATTERED SHOWERS OR STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LIKELY AREA IS SE MISSOURI...WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE HAS HAD THE MOST TIME TO RECOVER FROM MORNING CONVECTION. A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL RETURN TO THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS WIDESPREAD CONVECTION OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION...MOVING NORTH THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THIS GULF MOISTURE INFLOW IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER TEXAS. THIS LEAD SHORTWAVE WILL LIFT NORTHEAST TOWARD THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT...BRINGING GULF MOISTURE WITH IT. ETA/NGM/AVN ARE ALL TRENDING FASTER WITH THE STRONG SHORTWAVE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT OVER THE PLAINS. MODELS DEVELOP A WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI BY 12Z SUNDAY...THEN TRACK IT NORTHEAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES SUNDAY NIGHT. THE TRAILING COLD FRONT CROSSES THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING. PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT AROUND THE WARMEST TIME OF DAY FAVORS WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS. WIND PROFILES FROM MODEL SOUNDINGS ARE UNIDIRECTIONAL FROM 30 TO 45 KNOTS...INDICATING POTENTIAL FOR WIND IN STORMS THAT BOW. SEVERE THREAT WILL BE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY THE EXTENT OF CLOUDS AND SHOWERS DURING THE MORNING. AVN STILL INSISTS ON SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER AND DRIER AIR FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. 60 HOUR ETA ALSO IS POINTING IN THIS DIRECTION...SHOWING SFC DEW POINTS IN THE 50S ON MONDAY. THE REFRESHING CHANGE OF AIR MASS /SFC DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S/ IS MAKING GOOD INROADS INTO NW MISSOURI AT THIS TIME. WILL STAY CLOSE TO THE MRF MOS /MEX/ NUMBERS DURING THE EXTENDED...WHICH SHOW LOWS IN THE 50S AND HIGHS AROUND 80. .PAH...NONE. MY
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 8, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, September 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, September 8, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, September 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, September 8 to 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, September 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, September 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, September 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, September 8, 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: 5265240.