Thunderstorm Wind, Howell
- When
- January 23, 7:55 PM CST
- Where
- Howell County, 4 mi E of Lanton
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.517, -91.733
Damaging Wind in Missouri, January 23, 2002
Trees were blown down on Highway 142 east of Lanton.
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 happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
Trees were blown down on Highway 142 east of Lanton.
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 Jan 23, 1:50 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 1:50 PM CST, 6 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 150 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002 MAIN FOCUS HAS BEEN ON SHORT TERM PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE TRENDS AS COLD FRONT ENTERS THE AREA. OTHER CONCERNS INCLUDE PRECIPITATION CHANCES LATER IN EXTENDED. COLD FRONT CURRENTLY EXTENDS FROM SOUTH OF SEDALIA TO JOPLIN TO TULSA. TEMPS HAVE SOARED INTO THE 70S AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AS LOW CLOUDS CLEARED OUT EARLIER WITH GOOD MIXING TO AROUND 900 MB. CONVECTIVE PRECIP ALREADY STARTING TO OUR SOUTHWEST WITH RAPID NORTHEAST MOVEMENT. LAPS DATA SHOWS THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING INTO AN AREA OF -2 TO -4 LI AND CAPES AROUND 800. CURRENT TIMING OF LATE AFTERNOON STORMS MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF SPRINGFIELD IN ZONES STILL LOOKS GOOD...AND WILL CONTINUE THUNDER INTO THE EVENING FROM NEWTON COUNTY NORTHEAST ALONG 1-44 CORRIDOR. COMPARISON OF LATEST LAPS AND RUC SHOWS THAT RUC LIS/CAPES ARE OVERDONE CURRENTLY...BUT STILL THINK POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS EXIST OVER AREAS EAST OF A BRANSON TO FT. WOOD LINE...WELL AHEAD OF FROPA. LOOKING AT TROPICAL CONNECTION IN WATER VAPOR WITH POTENTIAL FOR DEEP CONVECTION OVER THE SOUTHEAST...WILL ALSO MENTION RAIN HEAVY AT TIMES FOR TONIGHT AROUND WEST PLAINS. AM LEANING TOWARD LEAVING POPS OUT FOR THE NORTHWEST ONE TO TWO TIERS OF COUNTIES BASED ON CURRENT RADAR TRENDS...FRONTAL MOVEMENT AND PRECIP OUTPUT FROM A BLEND OF MESOETA AND RUC. THE AVN HAS PRECIP SPREAD ACROSS ENTIRE CWA. WILL CONTINUE WATCHING RADAR TRENDS AND MAKE LAST MINUTE CALL ON THIS. DRY AIR SPREADS SOUTHWARD INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY AS 540DM THICKNESS PUSHES IN...SO WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT SNOW OR FLURRIES...AND END POPS IN THE MORNING OVER THE EAST. WILL ALSO KEEP TEMPS IN THE UPPER 30S/LOWER 40S FOR HIGHS. THROUGH THE WEEKEND...DRY WEATHER AND WARMING TREND CONTINUES AS UPPER TROUGH EXITS THE AREA...AND HEIGHTS BUILD OVER THE SOUTHERN U.S. EARLY NEXT WEEK...GULF OPENS UP AS UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO DEEPEN OVER THE WEST. MRF AND ECMWF ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT THROUGH MONDAY 12Z...WITH FROPA ADVERTISED MONDAY NIGHT BY MRF. WILL GO AHEAD AND INCLUDE POPS FOR MONDAY NIGHT...ALL LIQUID. SECOND SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AS MAIN UPPER TROUGH SHIFTS INTO THE CENTRAL U.S. MRF HINTS AT DRY SLOTTING AHEAD OF WEDNESDAY FRONT...WITH SOME WRAP AROUND PRECIP BY 00Z THURSDAY. THE ADVERTISED PATTERN IS RARELY DRY SO WILL INCLUDE CHANCE POPS FOR WEDNESDAY ALSO. ISC GRIDS WERE UPDATED AROUND NOON FOR EARLY PERIODS. FINAL TWEAKS AND UPDATES WILL BE OUT AROUND 230 PM. .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. TERRY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 23, 4:01 PM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
401 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0358 PM CASSVILLE MO .75 INCH HAIL
01/23/02 BARRY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 168 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:53 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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Tornado in Kentucky, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 23, 2002
- Wildfire and High Wind in California, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, January 23 to 24, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, January 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, January 23, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, January 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: 5276509.