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 17, 1:00 PM CST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CDT WED JUL 17 2002 WHATS TO SAY THAT HASNT ALREADY BEEN SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR THE PAST WEEK...SAME LOW DIFFERENT DAY. IN THIS CASE PERSISTANCE IS THE BEST FORECAST...AT LEAST UNTIL DAY 3. OVERALL MDLS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD ARGEEMENT WITH THE OVERALL PATTERN. THE DIFFERENCES DONT REALLY SHOW UP SOME WEATHER STARTS TO SHOW UP ON DAY 3. THE AVN IS THE MOST AGRESSIVE WITH THE SFC FNT DRIVING IT INTO CNTRL MO BY 00Z SAT. GIVEN THE CURRENT AND FCST UPR AIR PATTERN I PREFER THE LESS AGRESSIVE ETA AND BRING THE FNT TO NE MO AND THEN WEAKEN IT OUT SAT. SCT DIURNAL CONVECTION TO BE THE RULE THRU THURSDAY...BUT DID KEEP WX MENTIONED IN NERN ZONES THURS NIGHT GIVEN THE APPROACHING FNT. HIGHEST POPS WL BE FRI ACRS THE AREA. THE BULK OF THE WEEKEND LOOKS WX FREE AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT SETS UP ACRS THE LOWER 2/3 OF THE COUNTRY. IF THE MRF IS CORRECT...NEXT WEEK WILL BRING CHANGES AS NW FLOW DEVELOPS AND A STRONG SYSTEM MOVED INTO THE MIDWEST ON THURS AND FRI. TEMP WISE...FWC GUIDANCE LOOKS THE BEST AND HAVE EVENED SHAVED THE LOWS A BIT AS PER THE OBSERVATIONS. .STL...NONE JPK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
The St. Louis City Coroner reported the death of a 45 year old man from heat related causes.
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 (C) | 2002-07-17 | 45 | Male | 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: 5304546.