Name: Hail in Missouri, April 24, 2002
Start: 2002-04-24T11:27
End: 2002-04-24T12:30
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 2:57 AM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 2:57 AM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
315 AM CDT WED APR 24 2002

STRONG COLD FRONT WITH IMPRESSIVE PRESSURE RISES BEHIND IT PUSHING
INTO NORTHWEST IOWA.  DEW POINTS POOLING IN THE WARM SECTOR AHEAD OF
THE FRONT.  STRONG SHORT WAVE PUSHING THROUGH NEBRASKA WILL HELP
FRONT ACCELERATE THIS MORNING. WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND
MOISTURE AND UPPER DYNAMICS...CONVECTION EXPECTED TO FIRE THIS
MORNING...ALTOUGH LIMITED INSTABILITY SHOULD LIMIT SEVERE RISK TO
MARGINAL/ISOLATED.

FRONT PUSHES THROUGH TODAY WITH STRONG POST-FRONTAL WINDS.  MAY
BRIEFLY APPROACH WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WILL
HOLD OFF ON ADVISORY FOR NOW AND LET DAY SHIFT EVALUATE AS FRONT
ACCELERATES.

SURFACE RIDGE SETTLES IN THURSDAY WITH COLD NIGHTTIME TEMPS AND DRY
WX.

REST OF THE FORECAST ON TRACK.  MODELS SLOWING SLIGHTLY ON THE NEXT
SYSTEM FOR FRIDAY...SO IF TREND CONTINUES...MAY NEED TO PULL FRIDAY
AFTERNOON POPS NEXT TIME AROUND.  OTHERWISE...NO CHANGES TO EXTENDED
PERIODS.

.DVN...
IA...NONE.
IL...NONE.
MO...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 10:26 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1126 AM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

1124 AM    JESUP                     IA   .25 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   BUCHANAN                       REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 10:28 AM CST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1128 AM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

1110 AM    RIVERSIDE                 IA   .25 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   WASHINGTON                     REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

1110 AM    WASHINGTON                IA   .25 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   WASHINGTON                     REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 11:02 AM CST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1202 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

1129 AM    MUSCATINE                 IA   .75 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   MUSCATINE                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

1159 AM    4 W WAPELLO               IA   .25 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   LOUISA

Local storm report, Apr 24, 11:09 AM CST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1209 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

1205 PM    4 N MEMPHIS               MO   .25 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   SCOTLAND                       REPORTED BY MEDIA.

Local storm report, Apr 24, 11:11 AM CST, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1211 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

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

1205 PM    WELTON                    IA   .5 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   CLINTON                        REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

1205 PM    DEWITT                    IA   .5 INCH HAIL
04/24/02   CLINTON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Scotland

When: April 24, 11:27 AM CST
Where: Scotland County, Rutledge
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 40.317, -92.083

Funnel Cloud, Clark

When: April 24, 12:30 PM CST
Where: Clark County, 1 mi E of Kahoka
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.410, -91.738 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Funnel Cloud: A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5292176, 5292177.