Thunderstorm Wind, Adams
- When
- July 22, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County, Payson
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.817, -91.250
Storm spotters reported a couple of large trees down in Payson.
Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 22, 2002
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 Jul 22, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:35 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 335 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002 MAIN CONCERNS THIS PKG NOW TO BE MVMT OF CDFNT AND CHCS FOR PCPN. HOT WX TO END WITH FROPA AND TEMPS RTN TO AT OR BLO NRML FOR NR TERM. MDLS IN GEN AGMT IN TAKING 50H S/WV ACRS NRN STRM WITH RDG REBUILDING OVR CTRL RCKY MTNS BY 30H. RGN WL RMN IN NLY UPR FLOW THRU REST OF WK WITH ANTHR S/WV DROPPING INTO MIDWST BY LT THU. MDLS TAKE SFC FNT WELL S INTO SRN AR BFR STALLING AND THINK THIS MAY BE TOO FAR S. TSRA STARTING TO FIRE ALG CDFNT ATTIM AND SHUD DVLP INTO SOLID-BKN LN ALG AND AHD OF FNT THIS EVE. SHEAR VERY WEAK AND MAIN THREAT IS HVY RAIN AND MICROBURSTS FM SLOW MVG STRMS. COOLER AIR TO INFILTRATE OVRNGT WITH DAYTIME MAXES ABT 10 DEG COOLER THAN TDA. WL ALLW ALL WRNGS AND ADVSYS TO EXPIRE WITH THIS FCST ISSUANCE. MIDWK WL BE DRY WITH NR NRML TEMPS WITH WRMUP BGNG TWD WKEND. WL XTND CHC POPS INTO MON IN XTNDD. .STL...NONE WDB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 10:35 AM CST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-221800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1135 AM CDT MON JUL 22 2002 HAZARDS THROUGH TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER ALL OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CITY OF ST LOUIS FOR TODAY. HEAT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR TODAY FOR A LINE EAST OF JACKSONVILLE ILLINOIS...50 MILES WEST OF ST LOUIS...TO ROLLA MISSOURI. DISCUSSION... TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL RISE INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S. THESE TEMPERATURES IN COMBINATION WITH HIGH HUMIDITIES WILL CAUSE HEAT INDICES TO REACH 100 TO 108 ACROSS THE AREA...DANGEROUS FOR PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN...ELDERLY PEOPLE...AND THOSE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HEAT RELATED ILLNESS. A COLD FRONT SAGGING SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON WILL PROBABLY TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES INTO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE COULD BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS IS DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS JUST A MINOR THREAT FOR 3/4 INCH OR LARGER HAIL. THE OUTLOOK FOR TUESDAY... HOT WEATHER WILL END AS COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. && THIS PRODUCT WILL BE ISSUED BETWEEN 6 AND 8 AM DAILY...AND WILL BE UPDATED AS NEEDED. FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ON A PARTICULAR HAZARD...MAKE SURE TO REFER TO THE ZONE FORECASTS AND THE ACTUAL WATCH...WARNING OR ADVISORY PRODUCT. BECHTOLD
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 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
- Heat in Maryland, July 22 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 22, 2002
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 22, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, July 22, 2002
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, July 2002
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: 5304477.