Hail, Jefferson
- When
- September 8, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Dittmer
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.333, -90.683
The Sheriff's department reported 3/4 inch hail.
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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 8, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 255 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 SYNOP SITUATION CONTS MAJ PATTN CHG WITH RTN TO NRML OR BLO NRML TEMPS. SVRL PROBS THIS PKG...ALL RELATED TO TIMING OF FROPA AND ASSOCTD PCPN. MDLS ALL SHWG FASTER MVMT ON L/WV THRU RGN WITH TROF VCNTY KSTL BY 36H. UPR FLOW BCMS WK NWLY AS 50H RDG BLDS OVR SRN RCKYMTNS AND SRN PLNS. AVN MOVG SFC CDFNT THRU FA A LTL FASTER THAN ETA AND PREFER ETA TIMING. CNVNCTN XPCTD TO REFIRE BY LT AFTN AHD OF CFNT OVR FA. PWS INCRS TO NR 2 IN ACRS FA BY 24H AND HVY PCPN PSBL WITH CELLS LIKELY TRAINING ALG FNT. WL PUT SUCH WORDING IN CTRL AND SRN ZNS. FNT TO CONT SE WITH PCPN ENDING FM N DURG DAY SUN AND WL DROP POPS XCPT FOR SRN ZN FOR 3RD PD. TEMPS TDA WRMD A BIT ABV FCSTD VALS DUE TO LESS CLD CVR. WL LWR TEMPS A CAT FOR SUN AND THEN A LTL WRMR AGAIN ON MON WITH LESS CLDS AND LGT WINDS. IN XTNDD PD XPCT ANTHR FROPA ON WED BUT SHUD BE DRY WITH LTL TEMP CHGS. TEMPS SHUD BE AT OR SLGTLY BLO NRML THRU PD AND ONLY MINOR TWEAKS TO GOING OTLK. .STL...NONE. WDB
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:44 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
- 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: 5267835.