Name: Hail in Missouri, April 19, 2002
Start: 2002-04-19T17:45
End: 2002-04-19T17:45
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 12:59 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 12:59 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
159 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

MAIN FOCUS THIS PERIOD WILL BE WITH THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES/AMOUNTS/STRENGTH.

SURFACE FRONT WAS STILL TO THE NORTHWEST OF CWA FROM SOUTH OF KANSAS
CITY AND EMPORIA...TO NORTH OF CHANUTE.  TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER
50S TO LOW 60S BEHIND THE FRONT...WHILE AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN THE
70S AND 80S WITH DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S.

MCS OUTFLOW OVER CENTRAL MO THIS MORNING SPARKED ADDITIONAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT BY LATE MORNING AND HAS PUSHED OUT OF THE
AREA FOR NOW.  MORE CONVECTION DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL OK...AND THAT
IS PUSHING NORTHEAST...EVENTUALLY INTO THE CWA BY LATE AFTERNOON.
SHOULD ALSO BEGIN TO SEE SOME CONVECTION DEVELOP FURTHER NORTH ALONG
THE FRONT AS IT SAGS INTO THE CWA THIS EVENING.

MODELS ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT THROUGH THE PERIOD...AND SLOWLY SAG
THE SURFACE FRONT THROUGH MOST OF THE AREA TONIGHT.  SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED...WITH PW VALUES
FROM 1.5 TO 1.7 INCHES.  SEVERE THREAT LOOKS TO MAINLY BE WITH
HAIL.  18Z SOUNDING FROM SGF SHOWS LITTLE OR NO CAP...WITH JUST OVER
2000 J/KG CAPE VALUES AND WBZ OF 10500FT.  SOUNDINGS ALSO FAIRLY
SATURATED TO ABOUT 15KFT.  PW VALUES WERE 1.62 IN.  WITH RECENT
HEAVY RAINS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CWA...AND
WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH
SUNDAY...WILL BE ISSUING A FLOOD WATCH FOR THE ENTIRE AREA BEGINNING
THIS AFTERNOON.

FRONT (IF IT ACTUALLY MAKES IT) PROGGED TO BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS
NORTHERN ARKANSAS ON SATURDAY MORNING.  UPPER WAVE SHIFTS EAST INTO
THE ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS REGION.  LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SHOULD
OVERRUN THE FRONT WITH THE THREAT OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY
RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS THE CWA.  THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WILL
OCCUR ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT.

THE UPPER WAVE BEGINS TO LIFT NORTHEAST INTO KS/NEBRASKA WITH THE
THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN TO CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AS THE SURFACE
WAVE BEGINS TO LIFT NORTH AND BACK INTO THE AREA.   THE UPPER WAVE
THEN SHIFTS INTO IA/MO ON SUNDAY WITH CDFNT PUSHING THROUGH THE CWA
AND FINALLY ENDING THE RAIN LATE SUNDAY.

MUCH COOLER AIR THEN WORKS INTO THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT INTO
MONDAY...WITH SOME NORTHERN ZONES POSSIBLY DIPPING INTO THE 30S FOR
OVERNIGHT LOWS.

HOPE TO HAVE ISC GRIDS OUT BY 3 PM.

.SGF...
MO...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES
MOZ055>058...MOZ066>071...MOZ077>083...MOZ088>098...MOZ101>106.

KS...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES
KSZ073...KSZ097...KSZ101.

LINDENBERG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 4:09 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
509 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0438 PM    CARTHAGE                  MO   WIND DAMAGE
04/19/02   JASPER                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN.  REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Apr 19, 4:32 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
532 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0529 PM    ROLLA                     MO   .75 INCH HAIL
04/19/02   PHELPS                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Apr 19, 4:54 PM CST, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
554 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PM    MONTREAL                  MO   FLOOD
04/19/02   CAMDEN                         LOW WATER CROSSING
                                          FLOODED ON BB HIGHWAY
                                          SOUTH OF MONTREAL.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Apr 19, 5:39 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
639 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    HOUSTON                   MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/19/02   TEXAS                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Apr 19, 5:43 PM CST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
643 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0642 PM    HOUSTON                   MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
04/19/02   TEXAS                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Apr 19, 5:43 PM CST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
643 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    HOUSTON                   MO   60-70 MPH TSTM GUST
04/19/02   TEXAS                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:42 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Phelps

When: April 19, 5:45 PM CST
Where: Phelps County, 5 mi S of Rolla
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 37.883, -91.767

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, April 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: 5293693.