Thunderstorm Wind, Madison
- When
- May 12, 3:27 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County, Godfrey
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 38.950, -90.183
County Emergency Management reported power lines down in Godfrey.
Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 12, 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 May 12, 2:48 AM CST, 12 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 2:48 AM CST, 12 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
240 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002
MAIN CONCERNS CONT TO BE HVY PCPN WI ISOLD SVR TSTMS.
GETTING LOTS OF RAIN NORTH...IRK HAD OVR 4 INCHES PAST 6 HRS AND
NEARLY 8 INCHES STORM TOTAL PAST 24 HRS OR SO. PCPBL H20 CONT TO RUN
HIGH AND RAIN FALLING QUICKLY. WL ISSUE THESE FCSTS HURRIDLY TO CONT
TO MONITER FOR MORE PCPN PROBLEMS IN CWA ALG NEW LIN THAT HAS JUST
FORMED.
LOOK FOR S/W RIDING INTO AREA TNGT TO KEEP LN THAT FORMED DURING
AFTN/EVE STNRY FOR A FEW HRS AND THIS WILL RESULT IN A MAJOR FLASH
FLOOD PROB SOMEWHERE NR OR JUST SOUTH OF I-44/I-70 THIS EVE. THEN
AS S/W APPROACHES IT SHOULD EVOLVE IN A MORE NORTH/SOUTH LN WHICH
WILL PROB BECOME SEVERE BUT LIMIT TRAINING SO MUCH.
LONGER RANGE LOOKS WETTER AGAIN FOR LATTER HALF OF WEEK SO WILL
TWEAK EXTENDED TO COME MORE IN LINE WITH MRF EXTENSION.
.STL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES...
FOR TODAY NORTH THIRD CWA
FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR CNTRL THIRD NORTH OF A LINE
FROM LAKE OF THE OZARKS TO 40S KSTL TO 25 SW OF
EFFINGHAM IL
FOR TNGT/MON FOR SRN CWA S OF LN FROM LAKE OF THE OZARKS
TO 40S KSTL TO 25 SW OF EFFINGHAM IL.
PEDIGOIn the hours before
Local storm report, May 12, 9:53 AM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1053 AM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM MO FLOODING
05/12/02 KNOX REPORTED BY KNOX COUNTY
SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.
FIFTEEN HIGHWAYS CLOSED
DUE TO FLOODING...ROUTES
11,C,J,F,V,K,M,TT,151
NORTH AND SOUTH OF EDINA.
7AM PRECIP AT EDINA WAS
5.69 INCHES.
0400 AM MO FLOODING
05/12/02 SHELBY NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED INCLUDING
HIGHWAYS N/151/K. THESE
WERE CLOSED, WITH MANY
OTHERS UNDER WATER BUT
PASSABLE.
0400 AM NOVELTY MO FLOODING
05/12/02 KNOX PUBLIC REPORT. OBSERVER
AT NOVELTY REPORTED 2.23
INCHES OF
RAINFALL...EDINA 5.69
0400 AM MO FLOODING
05/12/02 LEWIS NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. OBSERVER AT LA
BELLE REPORTED 2.53 AT 7
AM, OBSERVER AT LA
BELE,2.53, OBSERVER AT
CANTON 4.00 IN 24 HR.
0500 AM MO FLOODING
05/12/02 MARION NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED, INCLUDING
HIGHWAYS 337, 249, AND
HIGHWAY 419.
0600 AM MO FLOODING
05/12/02 WARREN NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED AND CLOSED.
SEVERAL LOW WATER
CROSSINGS ALSO CLOSED
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
0600 AM IL FLOODING
05/12/02 GREENE NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED, INCLUDING STATE
ROUTES 67,267.
0600 AM JERSEYVILLE IL FLOODING
05/12/02 JERSEY STREET FLOODING. COOP
OBSERVER REPORTED 2.25
INCHES OF RAIN.
0630 AM IL FLOODING
05/12/02 MACOUPIN PUBLIC REPORT. COOP
OBSERVER AT VIRDEN
REPORTED 3.22 INCHES OF
RAIN. PUBLIC REPORT
MEASURED 4.00 INCHES OF
RAINFALL OVERNIGHT.
0700 AM MO FLOODING
05/12/02 LINCOLN NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
FLOODED. OBSERVER AT TROY
REPORTED 2.42 IN. HIGHWAY
79 BETWEEN WINDFIELD AND
OLD MONROE CLOSED DUE TO
HIGH WATER. HIGHWAY Y AT
EE AND HIGHWAY V CLOSED.
0700 AM GOLDEN IL FLOODING
05/12/02 ADAMS OBSERVER AT 7 AM REPORTED
3.03 INCHES OR RAINFALL.Local storm report, May 12, 2:27 PM CST, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
327 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0254 PM NEW LONDON MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/02 RALLS QUARTER TO GOLF BALL
SIZED HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND.The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:25 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
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, May 12, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, May 12, 2002
- Flood in Alaska, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, May 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: 5291938.