1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CDT WED JUL 10 2002 MSAS DATA FM 18Z INDICATES BEST SFC MSTR CNVGC LIES ACRS E CNTRL MO AND E CNTRL KS WITH LIS <-7 S OF I-70. LN OF STRNG-SVR TSTMS MOVG ACRS CNTRL-E CNTRL MO ATTM. ETA DRIVES MUCH DRIER AIR INTO NW MO THIS EVE AND INTO THE CNTRL PTN OF THE STATE BY MIDN. BLV THAT MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR THIS EVE WITH BTR MSTR AND INSTABILITY AVBL. MODELS FAIRLY SMLR IN HNDLG THE CLOSED H5 LOW THAT DROPS DWN INTO THE AREA LTR THU. THIS COUPLED WITH SGNFNT RTRN OF MSTR WITH ETA FCSTG K INDICES IN THE MID 30S TO LWR 40S ACRS MUCH OF AREA. ETAS QPF AND MET POPS LOOK RNSBL AND WILL FOLLOW FAIRLY CLOSE. IN THE EXTND PD, THE MRF, UKMET AND ECMWF ARE FAIRLY SMLR AT H5 FOR SUN MRNG WITH LOW OVR SE MO AND HOT RDG ANCHORED OVR THE WRN U.S. LOW FCST TO MEANDER ARND THE RGN INTO MID WEEK AS PTRN RMNS LOCKED IN. .STL...NONE
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The County Sheriff reported trees down blocking Highway 72 northwest of Reynolds and just east of Bunker.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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