Thunderstorm Wind, Iron
- When
- August 19, 11:20 PM CST
- Where
- Iron County, Ironton
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.600, -90.633
Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees and power lines.
Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 19, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 9:00 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 9:00 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 10 PM CDT MON AUG 19 2002 INTS CNVTN THAT FIRED OVR OZARKS ERY THIS EVE ALG DYING FNTL BNDRY SHUD BCM OUTFLO DOMINATED NXT CPL OF HRS...AND EXPECT TO SEE SVR AND HVY RAIN THRT DMSH IN THIS AREA AS AMS GRDLY STBLZ. HWVR...NRLY STATIONARY STM PRODUCED SM IMPRESSIVE RAINFALL AMTS NW REYNOLDS/W IRON COUNTIES BTWN 01-02Z. MEANWHILE...MSTR CNVGC IN THE 850-700MB LYR PICKING UP ELEVATED CNVTN NICELY FROM SE NE INTO CNTRL MO. FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF THESE FIELDS...AREA SHUD GRDLY LFT NWD OVRNGT...BUT NOT BFR BRINGING SCTD PCPN TO COU/UIN AREAS. .STL...NONE TRUETT
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:18 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, August 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, August 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: 5309559.