1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jun 26, 2:28 AM CST, 7 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 328 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 06Z SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS COLD FRONT POSITIONED FROM WRN MN INTO NRN NE. LINE OF STRONG TSRA WAS OCCURRING ON OUTFLOW FROM CENTRAL WI INTO NCNTRL IA AND AHEAD OF S/W ENERGY MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH MN. MAIN FORECAST CONCERN WILL BE TSRA TODAY AND EARLY THIS EVENING...AS FRONT DROPS SOUTHEAST THROUGH CWA IN CONJUNCTION WITH H5 S/W MOVING ACROSS WI. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES... BUT ETA SEEMED TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON THERMAL PARAMETERS IN THE NEAR TERM. 00Z RUN HAS FRONT INTO NORTHERN CWA BY MID DAY AND EXITING SOUTH LATE THIS EVENING....A LITTLE SLOWER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. EXPECT ONGOING NERN IA/WI TSRA TO CONTINUE SSE AND MOVE ACROSS NRN HALF CWA EARLY THIS MORNING AND WEAKEN BEFORE REACHING SOUTHERN CWA. EXPECT TEMPS TO RECOVER BY MID AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE FRONT WITH CAPES AROUND 3000J/KG EXPECTED IN THE SOUTH PER ETA FCST. THIS WILL BE ENOUGH TO FIRE STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WITH POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. HIGH WBZ TEMPS SHOULD KEEP HAIL SIZE CLOSE TO 3/4 INCH. ALSO WITH PWS AROUND 1.5 HEAVY RAIN WILL BE A CONCERN. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE EVENING SOUTH FOR ANY LINGERING SHRA/TSRA ...BUT PCPN SHOULD BE OUT OF CWA BY MIDNIGHT. AFTER FRONT MOVES THROUGH TONIGHT...DRIER AND SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR ADVECTS IN ON NW FLOW FOR REST OF THE WORK WEEK. WILL GO WITH ETA 2M TEMPS TODAY...SINCE ETA IS TAPPING +20C 850 AIR OVER PLAINS AND BRINGS IT INTO SOUTHERN IA/NRN MO AHEAD OF FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. FOR THE THE REST OF THE WEEK MOS TEMPS VARY LITTLE AND SEE NO REASON TO DIFFER. IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. DLF
IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-009- 015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-271000- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 515 AM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH THIS MORNING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL IOWA AND NORTHWEST ILLINOIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH THE INTERSTATE 80 CORRIDOR BY MID MORNING. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY ON THE IOWA SIDE OF THE RIVER. THEY ARE EXPECTED TO STAY BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...BUT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA COULD SEE AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN WITHIN AN HOUR FROM THESE STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST IOWA AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY LATE THIS MORNING. A COLD FRONT FROM SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...INTO NEBRASKA WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST TODAY...AND SHOULD BE NEAR HIGHWAY 20 BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DESTABILIZE THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 80S TO AROUND 90 AND DEW POINTS RISE TO AROUND 70. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REDEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AND INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE SOUTH THROUGH THE I80 CORRIDOR. THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY LATE THIS EVENING. DRIER AND A LITTLE COOLER AIR WILL MOVE IN TO THE REGION FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 THIS MORNING. HOWEVER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CLOSELY IN CASE THEY INTENSIFY. THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. DLF
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:34 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down briefly west of Mt. Hamill. No damage was reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Iowa, 2002Warnings in Iowa, June 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: 5300822, 5300823.