1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 1:14 AM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 214 AM CDT MON JUL 29 2002 06Z PROFILER PLOT PLACES MID LEVEL TROF NEAR THE IA/NE BORDER WITH MSAS ANALYSIS PLACING SURFACE FRONT FROM SERN MN THROUGH SW IA AND NW MO. TWO DISTINCT MCSS EARLIER THIS EVENING OVER SOUTHERN MN AND NW MO AND ERN KS APPEAR TO BE TRYING TO LINK UP. REGIONAL RADAR COMPOSITE SHOWS SHRA/TSRA PROPAGATING SW THROUGH CENTRAL IA. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THIS MORNING SHOWING SURFACE FRONT MOVING EAST OF CWA JUST AFTER 12Z WITH H5 TROF CROSSING MS RIVER BY LATE MORNING. SURFACE FRONT MOVES WELL SOUTH OF CWA ALLOWING WEAK HIGH PRESSURE TO BUILD INTO REGION TONIGHT. QUIET WX TO DOMINATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY. MODELS THEN SUGGEST TROF DEVELOPING OVER CENTAL AND NORTHERN PLAINS WITH WARM FRONT DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN MN. THIS FRONT SHOULD BE FOCUS OF SOME LATE NIGHT TSRA ACROSS SRN MN/NRN IA. WITH ZONAL FLOW OVER NRN U.S. THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY NORTH OF CWA. NEXT PCPN CHANCE WILL BE LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AS COLD FRONT MOVES SLOWLY SOUTH THROUGH CWA. BEST CHANCE WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF WITH FRONT MOVING THROUGH DURING THE EVENING. LESS FAVORABLE TIMING OF FROPA ACROSS THE SOUTH WILL LIMIT PCPN CHANCES. UKMET/AVN BOTH IN AGREEMENT THAT STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS...BRING SOME PLEASANT MID SUMMER WEATHER TO THE REGION FOR SATURDAY. TEMPS TODAY WILL BE A LITTLE TRICKY WITH DEPARTING SHRA/TSRA THIS MORNING AND THE ASSOCIATED CLOUD SHIELD. 850 TEMPS/SURFACE PARCEL TRAJECTORIES SUGGEST LOW 90S...HOWEVER WITH WET GROUND AND LACK OF MORNING SUN...WILL KEEP TEMPS A CATEGORY OR TWO LOWER. MODELS ARE BRINGING DRIER AIR IN TONIGHT...WITH UPPER 50S/LOW 60 DEW POINTS ADVECTING IN. HOWEVER WITH WET GROUND MOST AREAS AND CORN FULLY MATURE...BELIEVE DEWPOINTS WILL BE A LITTLE HIGHER. WILL KEEP LOWS TONIGHT NEAR WARMER MAV NUMBERS. IF DEWPOINTS STAY UP TONIGHT...THERE COULD BE A POTENTIAL FOR SOME DENSE FOG AS SURFACE WINDS GO NEARLY CALM UNDER RIDGE. NO MENTION OF FOG PLANNED FOR THIS ISSUANCE...BUT DAY SHIFT WILL NEED TO EVALUATE POTENTIAL. FOR TUESDAY...WILL TREND TOWARD WARMER FWC NUMBERS WITH 850 TEMPS WARMING TO AROUND 20C AND SOUTHERLY SURFACE FLOW DEVELOPING AHEAD OF PLAINS TROF. REGION STAYS IN SOUTHERLY FLOW TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WHICH SHOULD KEEP TEMPS ON THE WARM SIDE. BLEND OF MAV/FWC LOOKS GOOD FOR NOW. .DVN... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. DLF
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1010 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1007 PM MARION IA .88 INCH HAIL
07/28/02 LINN NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1022 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1001 PM FAIRVIEW IA 55 MPH TSTM GUST
07/28/02 JONES DUMPSTERS BLOWN AROUND.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1012 PM ANAMOSA IA 60-70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/28/02 JONES LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN
CAUSING POWER OUTAGE.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1040 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1020 PM ELY IA WIND DAMAGE
07/28/02 LINN POWER LINES DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TIME ESTIMATED.
1020 PM MARION IA WIND DAMAGE
07/28/02 LINN POWER LINES DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TIME ESTIMATED.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1132 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1110 PM SAVANNA IL NON SVR WIND DAMAGE
07/28/02 CARROLL 3.5 INCH DIAMETER
BRANCHES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1137 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 PM SAVANNA IL WIND DAMAGE
07/28/02 CARROLL SEVERAL TREES BLOWN
DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TIME ESTIMATED.
1130 PM MT CARROLL IL WIND DAMAGE
07/28/02 CARROLL TREES DOWN. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL. TIME
ESTIMATED.The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Another round of high winds knocked down more power lines and poles forcing the closure of Highway 151, and leaving another 3,500 homes and businesses without power.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 2002
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: 5307140.