1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Jul 1, 2:25 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 325 PM CDT MON JUL 1 2002 PERSISTENCE APRS TO BE THE BEST FCST TOOL ATTM...SPCLY FOR TEMPS...AS SUMMERTIME WX PTRN RMNS ANCHORED OVR FA. MAIN CONCERN FOR LTR PART OF THE NR TERM IS PCPN THRT. PLUME OF MSTR AND WK RIPPLES IN THE UPR FLOW HAS BEEN PRODUCING SWATH OF SHWRS/TSTMS FROM TX INTO E OK/SE KS PAST FEW DAYS...AND ALL MDLS ARE HINTING THAT THIS PCPN AXIS MAY SHIFT A BIT EWD IN THE WED-THU TIME FRAME AS PTN OF RDG OVR GTLKS STRETCHES INTO THE NE U.S. GOING FCST HAS LO POPS DURING THIS TIME AND THIS STILL APRS REASONABLE...ALTHO DO NOT SEE ANYTHING IN THE WAY OF WDSPRD PCPN...WHICH SM AREAS CULD CERTAINLY USE. LTR PDS OF THE AVN BEEFS THE RDG BACK UP OVR AREA...SO HOT AND DRY CONDS XPCD HEADING INTO NXT WEEKEND. .STL...NONE TRUETT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 73 year old woman died in her home in Velda Village of hyperthermia. The home had an air conditioner but it did not work. The high temperature that day and the previous day was 94.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, St. Louis | 2002-07-01 | 73 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, July 2002
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: 5304649.