1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 2, 2:05 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 305 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 OVRALL...ETA HAS HAD BEST HNDL ON FAIRLY STAGNANT WX PTRN THE LAST FEW DAYS...AND WL CONT TO LEAN TWD ITS SOLN FOR UPCOMING PKG. OVRALL...UPR RDG WL BE HANGING TUF...SO WX TRENDS WL BE MARKED BY ABV NORMAL TEMPS AND LTL HOPE OF A WDSPRD RAIN. TRYING TO PIN DOWN PCPN THRT RMNS BIGGEST QUESTION MARK. AFTN HTG...VRY WK UVV...AND SM OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS APR TO HV BEEN ENUF TO KICK OFF SHWRS/TSTMS OVR OZARKS THIS AFTN...AND THIS SHUD BE TNGTS PCPN THRT AS SM OF THIS ACTIVITY DRFTS INTO SW FRINGES OF CWFA...BFR DSPTG WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HTG. CONTG LO POPS FOR WED STILL LKS LIKE THE WAY TO GO. THERE HAS BEEN A SLGT BUT NOTABLE EWD SHFT THE UPR SHR AXIS AND DEEPER MSTR THAT HAS WRAPPING ARND THE W PERIPHERY OF RDG...WITH A CORRESPONDING E SHIFT IN THE PCPN PTRN AS WELL. MEAN RH AND INSTABILITY FIELDS SUGGEST THAT THIS SHIFT SHUD AT LEAST TRY TO WORK SM PCPN INTO CWFA ON WED...SPCLY W OF MSRVR. FOR THE FOURTH...BLV THAT RMNS OF SHR ZN WL BCM QUITE WK AS UPR RDG RE-EXERTS ITS INFLUENCE OVR AREA...SO PCPN THRT IN THE WRM UNSTBL AMS WL ONCE AGAIN BE QUITE LOW. BEST PCPN CHCS WL PROB HINGE ON FNTL BNDRY OVR THE UPR MS VLY. WITH UPR RDG RMNG VRY STG...THINK THE AVN AND NGM ARE MUCH TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH SWD PUSH OF FNT. PCPN THAT DOES DVLP ALG FNT CULD DROP INTO N SECTIONS OF FA ON THU...BUT ELSW WL CONT DRY FCST. OTHER THAN SM ADJ FOR CLDS OVR THE NXT 24 HRS...LTL CHG NOTED IN AMS TEMPS THRUOUT PD...SO PERSISTENCE SHUD RMN A VERY RELIABLE FCST TOOL. .STL...NONE TRUETT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
An 85 year old man died in his home in Maryland Heights of hyperthermia. The home had no air conditioner, no fans and the windows were all shut.
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: 5304650.