1 lightning, 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 Jun 3, 1:43 PM CST, 10 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 243 PM CDT MON JUN 3 2002 ELEVATED SHOWERS AND FEW TSRA ACROSS NORTHERN HALF CWFA HELPED ALONG BY MID LEVEL VORT MAX SEEN ON 88D LOOPS MOVING INTO NE IA AT 18Z. VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWS LARGE AREA FULL SUNSHINE MOST OF DAY SO FAR FROM I-80 SOUTH BUILDING HIGH SURFACE INSTABILITY. THIS HAS RESULTED IN 30 DEGREE N TO S TEMPERATURE GRADIENT WITH RAIN COOLED...GREAT LAKES AIRMASS IN 50S NORTH AND 90S WITH DEWPOINTS IN 70S IN FAR SOUTH AT 18Z. KDVN SHOWS E-W OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...NOW LIKELY SYNOPTIC FRONT...ABOUT 25 MI S OF RDA AND INCHING SLOWLY N. WITH BOUNDARY CONTINUING TO BISECT AREA THROUGH TUESDAY...TIMING AND PLACEMENT OF HIGHEST TSRA POTENTIAL AND TRYING TO GET CLOSE TO REALITY WITH LARGE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES. INITIAL CONCERN WILL BE LATE AFTERNOON SEVERE POTENTIAL AS H7 WAVE SEEN ON PROFILER NETWORK PUSHES INTO SW...THEN CENTRAL IA AND MAY INITIATE SURFACE BASED CONVECTION ALONG FRONT WHERE CAP WILL BE WEAKEST IN E-SE IA. WILL LEAVE OUT SEVERE WORDING FOR NOW SINCE MUCH UNCERTAINTY IN WHERE AND WHEN CONVECTION WILL INITIALIZE. MORE WIDESPREAD MCS EXPECTED TO FORM WELL N OF FRONT AS HAPPENED PAST FEW NIGHTS AND TRACK E THEN SE. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS GOING IN NORTHERN 2/3RDS WITH MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CHANCE TSRA FOR FAR SOUTH OVERNIGHT. FORCING TO AID CONVECTION LOOKS BETTER TONIGHT THAN PAST FEW DAYS WITH IMPRESSIVE SHORTWAVE SEEN ON WV IMAGERY MOVING INTO SW KS UNDERPLAYED BY MODELS WILL LIKELY PLAY ROLE IN LATE EVENING MCS DEVELOPMENT IN NE NEB/NW IA. MODELS SHOW H5 POS VORTICITY CENTERS TAKING MORE SRLY PATH THAN LAST NIGHT AND ANTICIPATE TRACK AT LEAST INTO NRN ZONES. HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL CONTINUES...ESPECIALLY LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY WITH H85 FLOW BECOMING PARALLEL TO LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY AND UPPER LEVEL FLOW. ALL MODELS AGREE ON BIG PICTURE WITH WESTERN H5 TROUGH MOVING THROUGH WEDNESDAY PRECEDED BY SURFACE CYCLONE CURRENTLY OVER WESTERN KS PASSING TO S EARLY WED TO END RAIN CHANCES. DO THINK ETA HAS BETTER QPF PLACEMENT TONIGHT FURTHER N...WHEREAS AVN TOO FAR S INTO CAPPED WARM SECTOR. THIS COULD SHIFT IF SIGNIFICANT EVENING CONVECTION PUSHES SURFACE FRONT BACK SOUTH. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS GOING THROUGH TUESDAY EXCEPT IN FAR S...THEN LIKELY ALL ZONES TUESDAY NIGHT AS MAIN LOW RIDES ALONG FRONT TO SOUTH AND THEN SWEEPS IT EASTWARD. WARMER FWC HIGHS PREFERRED... EXCEPT IN FAR N AND NE...WHERE CLOUDS AND REENFORCING E-NE SURFACE FLOW TO KEEP TEMPS NEAR TO BELOW GUIDANCE. EXTENDED...MODEL CONCENSUS IS SURFACE HIGH THURSDAY...THEN FLAT 500H RIDGING/ZONAL FLOW FRIDAY INTO EARLY SATURDAY. MRF BRINGS SURFACE AND UPPER LOWS ALONG US/CAN BORDER SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH FROPA FOR SHOWER CHANCES. WILL KEEP CHANCES GOING INTO MONDAY AS TIMING OF UPPER WAVE PASSAGE TO NORTH MAY KEEP INSTABILITY SHOWERS GOING. ONLY MINOR CHANGES MADE TO MOS TEMPERATURES. .DVN... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. DLS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
742 PM CDT MON JUN 03 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0723 PM STERLING ARPT IL 53 MPH TSTM GUST
06/03/02 WHITESIDE RECORDED BY AUTOMATED
OBSERVING EQUIPMENT AT
THE AIRPORT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1002 PM CDT MON JUN 03 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1000 PM MORRISON IL URBAN FLOODING
06/03/02 WHITESIDE STREETS IN MORRISON
REPORTED TO BE ABOUT
CURB FULL OF WATER DUE
TO HEAVY RAIN. .
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1038 PM CDT MON JUN 03 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1029 PM 1 N DUBUQUE IA .88 INCH HAIL
06/03/02 DUBUQUE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1131 PM CDT MON JUN 03 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1054 PM 5 E INDEPENDENCE IA SMALL STREAM FLOODING
06/03/02 BUCHANAN REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
OLD HIGHWAY 20.
1100 PM INDEPENDENCE IA HEAVY RAIN
06/03/02 BUCHANAN REPORTED BY KWWL, 1.37
INCHES OF RAIN IN 1 HOUR.
1100 PM WINTHROP IA HEAVY RAIN
06/03/02 BUCHANAN REPORTED BY KWWL, 1.78
INCHES IN 1 HOUR.
1122 PM JESUP IA HEAVY RAIN
06/03/02 BUCHANAN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER, 1.7 INCHES OF
RAIN - EVENING STORM
TOTAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1207 AM CDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 PM 3 E MORRISON IL FLOOD
06/03/02 WHITESIDE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
UNION PACIFIC TRAIN
BRIDGE BUCKLED AT
LYNDON RD.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1245 AM CDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1146 PM 4 W MANCHESTER IA FLOOD
06/03/02 DELAWARE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL,
145TH AVENUE FLOODED.
REOPENED AT 1215 A.M.The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:48 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was struck by lightning and landed on a house on 19th Avenue North. The tree landed on the attic portion of the home causing significant damage to the roof. No injuries were 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 historyWarnings 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: 5301742.