1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Apr 14, 12:30 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 130 PM CDT SUN APR 14 2002 BKN-OVC SC RMNS ACRS MUCH OF THE RGN ATTM WITH LOOP SHOWG DRIER AIR ADVCTG IN FM THE SW. SHOULD CONT TO SEE DECK BRKING UP DURG THE AFTN. WRM AIR AT 850 WAS IN PLACE ACRS THE HI PLNS THIS MRNG. AVN AND ETA ARE SMRL IN ADVCTG 18C TEMPS INTO N CNTRL MO BY MON AM. WITH A FAIRLY DECENT GRADIENT, SLY WINDS SHOULD BOOST TEMPS ON MON CLOSE TO RECORDS. RECORD HIGHS ARE : UIN - 86 SET IN 1926, STL - 87 SET IN 1992 AND COU - 90 SET IN 1896. AVN SAGS COLD FNT INTO RGN BY 12Z WED WITH FNT FCST TO STALL OUT BEFORE RETREATING TO THE N AS WRM FNT. MORE POTENT FNT IS FCST TO PUSH INTO NW MO BY 12Z FRI. 00Z MRF RUN WAS FASTER WITH FNT WITH FNT NR STL BY 12Z. IN THE EXTNDD, THE MRF, UKMET AND ECMWF ARE FAIRLY SMLR AT H5 FOR THU MRNG WITH CLOSED LOW VCNTY OF THE GRT BASIN AND RDG OVR THE LWR MS VALLEY. UKMET IS MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH SYSTM BY FRI EVE THAN MRF. MRF BACKS OFF FM SATS RUN ON STRNG S/WV DIGGING INTO THE MIDWEST. SHOT OF COLD AIR WILL BE SHRT LIVED WITH NEW RUN. MRF FCSTS STRNG COLD FNT TO ROLL INTO THE RGN BY FRI MRNG WITH 1036 MB SFC HI CNTRD OVR THE CNTRL ROCKIES BY SAT MRNG. WITH HI CNTRD OVR MO SUN MRNG, COOD SEE LOWS IN THE 30S. .STL...NONE
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-142100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 730 AM CDT SUN APR 14 2002 THREATS THROUGH TONIGHT... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... A FEW SPRINKLES OR LIGHT RAINSHOWERS MAY OCCUR THROUGH MID MORNING...GENERALLY IN AN AREA SOUTH OF I-44 IN MISSOURI AND SOUTH OF US-50 IN ILLINOIS. OUTLOOK FOR MONDAY... EXPECT PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND WARMER TEMPERATURES. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS FORECAST. BECHTOLD THIS PRODUCT WILL BE ISSUED BETWEEN 6 AND 8 AM DAILY...AND WILL BE UPDATED AS NEEDED. FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ON A PARTICULAR THREAT...MAKE SURE TO REFER TO THE ZONE FORECASTS AND THE ACTUAL WATCH...WARNING OR ADVISORY PRODUCT.
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:33 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Baseball size hail was reported in Pittsfield. Numerous vehicles were damaged.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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