Name: Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 22, 2002
Start: 2002-07-22T18:50
End: 2002-07-22T18:50
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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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.

Numerous trees were uprooted east of Plad.

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 Jul 22, 12:51 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 12:51 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
151 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002

MAIN FORECAST FOCUS WILL BE WITH TIMING AND COVERAGE OF CONVECTION
THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING.

SURFACE ANALYSIS WAS SHOWING COLD FRONT FROM NORTHEAST MISSOURI INTO
SOUTHEAST KANSAS.  AIR MASS AHEAD OF FRONT WAS VERY UNSTABLE WITH
LAPS CAPES INDICATING 3000-4000 J/KG.  BEST INSTABILITY IS IN THE
EASTERN CWA WHERE DEW POINTS WERE SLIGHTLY HIGHER...AND REGIONAL
RADAR WAS SHOWING INSTABILITY BASED THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING
FROM THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL INTO THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE VALLEYS.
ONLY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT TO SPEAK OF
SO FAR WAS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI AHEAD OF THE UPPER LEVEL WAVE.

HEAT INDEX VALUES HAVE NOT MADE IT TO CRITERIA YET THIS
AFTERNOON...AND WILL LIKELY CANCEL ADVISORY AT ZONE ISSUANCE TIME.

FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PUSH SOUTH TONIGHT INTO THE CWA WITH CAPES ON
THE ORDER OF 3 TO 4 THOUSAND J/KG THIS EVENING.  UPPER LEVEL WAVE
WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI OVERNIGHT WITH BEST
UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE LOCATED FROM IL INTO THE OH VLY.  BEST CHANCE
FOR SEVERE WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND EAST SECTIONS OF
CWA...BEFORE INSTABILITY DWINDLES AFTER SUNSET.  WITH HIGH WBZ
VALUES...MAIN SEVERE THREAT WILL BE WITH DOWNBURST AND STRAIGHT LINE
WIND POTENTIAL.

FRONT SHOULD PUSH THROUGH THE CWA ON TUESDAY MORNING WITH SOMEWHAT
DRIER AND COOLER AIR PUSHING IN.  FLOW LOOKS TO BECOME MORE ZONAL
OVER THE MIDDLE TO LATE PART OF THE WEEK WITH UPPER RIDGE SETTING UP
OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES.  SEVERAL SHORTWAVES WILL PUSH OUT OF THE
NORTHERN PLAINS AND INTO THE UPPER AND MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
REGIONS.  INHERITED DRY FORECAST AND WILL CONTINUE FOR NOW...BUT
HAVE UPPED POPS ON THURSDAY FROM 10 TO 20 PERCENT.

MRF HAS NEXT FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA NEXT MONDAY AND HAVE
INTRODUCED LOW POPS FOR MONDAY.  TEMPERATURES IN THE EXTENDED LOOK
SEASONAL WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW 90S AND LOWS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S.

PRELIMINARY GRIDS HAVE BEEN SENT.

.SGF...NONE.

FCSTID = 5
SGF   68  85  64  89 /  60  30  10  10
JLN   69  87  67  92 /  60  30  10  10
UNO   69  85  62  89 /  60  30  10  10
VIH   67  84  63  87 /  60  10  10  10
AIZ   67  84  63  88 /  60  10  10  10

LINDENBERG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 5:20 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
620 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    NEVADA                    MO   WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02   VERNON                         POWERLINES DOWN IN
                                          TOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 22, 5:29 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
629 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    NEVADA                    MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/22/02   VERNON                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 22, 5:54 PM CST, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
654 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 PM    LAMAR                     MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/22/02   BARTON                         REPORTED BY FIRE AND
                                          RESCUE.

Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:16 PM CST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
716 PM CDT MON JUL 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0655 PM    LAMAR                     MO   WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02   BARTON                         LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN 4
                                          TO 5 INCHES IN
                                          DIAMETER. REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC.

0710 PM    HUMANSVILLE               MO   WIND DAMAGE
07/22/02   POLK                           TREES DOWN IN TOWN. .
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:51 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Dallas

When: July 22, 6:50 PM CST
Where: Dallas County, 3 mi E of Plad
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.733, -92.917

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

More

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, July 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: 5306699.