Thunderstorm Wind, Washington
- When
- July 22, 8:03 PM CST
- Where
- Washington County, Okawville
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.433, -89.550
The County Sheriff reported several trees and power lines down.
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, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:35 PM CST, 5 hours 28 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
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:01 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: 5304570.