Hail in Missouri, December 18, 2002

Name: Hail in Missouri, December 18, 2002
Start: 2002-12-18T15:45
End: 2002-12-18T15:45
Location: Missouri

December 18, 2002 · NWS LSX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
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: 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 Dec 18, 3:30 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 3:30 PM CST, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
330 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002

NOT ENUF TIME TO LOOK AT THINGS...PRETTY BUSY TDA.  CNVCTN STILL
INCRSG ON DRY BNDRY FM CNTRL INTO NERN MO. HAVE HAD SVRL REPORTS
OF LARGE HAIL WITH THEM. ILX RADAR IS KAPUT AND WE WILL MAINTAIN
WX WATCH AS WE CAN.  HAVE COORD WITH EAX...OUT EMERGENCY POWER...
GENERATOR IS OTS...HAVE SUMMONED A CONTRACTOR TO REPAIR IT BUT WE
ARE STILL UNDER THE GUN AND SHOULD WE LOSE COMMERCIAL POWER WE
WILL BE UNABLE TO PERFORM BACKUP POWER.

S/W PRESSING THRU AND DRIER AIR IS DRFTG OUR WAY FM SW. LOOK FOR
IT TO OVERTAKE CWA THRU EVE AND END PCPN WITH IT. REST OF SHORT
TERM IS EXERCISE IN TEMPS AND CLDS. KEPT MENT OF PCPN SAT AND AGAIN
ON TUE...OTHERWISE DRY.

ONLY HAVE TORNADO WATCH IN SERN MO...JUST SOUTH OF OUR CWA. WILL
HANDLE ANY SVR TSTMS N AND W WITH LCL WRNGS.

.STL...NONE

PEDIGO

Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 18, 8:15 AM CST, 7 hours 30 minutes before

ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-034>036
-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-191200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
815 AM CST WED DEC 18 2002

THIS OUTLOOK COVERS CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO THIS
EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST
ILLINOIS.  THE MODERATE RISK AREA IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE
EXTENDING FROM JEFFERSON CITY EAST NORTHEAST THROUGH ALTON
ILLINOIS.  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ST LOUIS...CUBA...
FARMINGTON... ANNAPOLIS...FREDERICKTOWN...BELLEVILLE...AND CHESTER.
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THIS AREA CONTAINING LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REST OF
THE OUTLOOK AREA FOR TODAY INTO THIS EVENING.  SOME CITIES IN THE
SLIGHT RISK AREA INCLUDE COLUMBIA...HANNIBAL AND QUINCY.
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THIS AREA AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TODAY INTO
THIS EVENING IN THE UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID ENVIRONMENT OVER THE
BI-STATE REGION AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION ABOUT POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER TODAY AND THIS EVENING.

GKS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:43 AM CST, 5 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1043 AM CST WED DEC 18 2002

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

1010 AM    5SW EDWARDSVILLE          IL   1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02   MADISON                        REPORTED BY SEVERE
                                          WEATHER SPOTTER AT
                                          INTERSECTION OF
                                          INTERSTATE 270 AND
                                          HIGHWAY 111.

Local storm report, Dec 18, 11:36 AM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1136 AM CST WED DEC 18 2002

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

1110 AM    7N LA BELLE               MO   WIND DAMAGE
12/18/02   LEWIS                          PUBLIC REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWNED NEAR THE
                                          INTERSECTION OF HIGWAYS K
                                          AND Y.

Local storm report, Dec 18, 1:08 PM CST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
108 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002

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

1255 PM    CALIFORNIA                MO   0.75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02   MONITEAU                       DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY MONITEAU COUNTY 911.

Local storm report, Dec 18, 1:41 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
141 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002

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

0117 PM    2NW ASHLAND               MO   1.00 INCH HAIL
12/18/02   BOONE                          PUBLIC REPORT.

0124 PM    2NE ASHLAND               MO   0.88 INCH HAIL
12/18/02   BOONE                          NICKEL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED AT COLUMBIA
                                          AIRPORT BY COLUMIBA EOC.

Local storm report, Dec 18, 2:01 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
201 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002

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

0157 PM    AUXVASSE                  MO   0.88 INCH HAIL
12/18/02   CALLAWAY                       REPORTED BY CALLAWAY
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          DEPARTMENT.

Local storm report, Dec 18, 3:13 PM CST, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
313 PM CST WED DEC 18 2002

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

0310 PM    WELLSVILLE                MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
12/18/02   MONTGOMERY                     REPORTED BY MONTGOMERY
                                          COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          DEPARTMENT.

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Osage

When: December 18, 3:45 PM CST
Where: Osage County, 6 mi NW of Linn
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 38.550, -91.933

An amateur radio spotter reported 3/4 inch hail northwest of Linn.

What these are

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

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, December 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: 5324399.