Thunderstorm Wind, Barry
- When
- June 13, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County, 16 mi NE of Cassville
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -93.667
Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 13, 2002
Large trees were blown down northeast of Cassville.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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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.
Large trees were blown down northeast of Cassville.
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 Jun 13, 1:40 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:40 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 240 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH HAS CLEARED MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER REAL FRONT STILL LIES BETWEEN HERE AND KANSAS CITY. STILL HAVE LOWER 70 DEWPOINTS OVER MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA...WITH REMNANTS OF MORNING STORM COMPLEX THAT DEVELOPED OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EDGING ITS WAY INTO WESTERN ZONES. MAIN FORECAST ISSUE WILL BE WITH POPS TONIGHT. HARD TO ARGUE WITH CURRENT RADAR IMAGES...1500 CAPES AND SCATTERED CONVECTION POPPING UP BETWEEN WEST PLAINS AND SPRINGFIELD. SO WILL NEED TO EXTEND POPS INTO THE EVENING. WILL WORD UNTIL SUNSET IN THE NORTHWEST AND UNTIL MIDNIGHT IN THE CENTRAL AND EAST. THEREAFTER...DRIER AIR BEHIND FRONT SHOULD WORK ITS WAY FAR ENOUGH SOUTH TO END PRECIP CHANCES. STILL LOOKS DRY FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...AS SURFACE BUILDS INTO THE REGION. LATEST MODEL RUNS HINT AT PRECIP TO OUR WEST SATURDAY WITH RETURN MOISTURE AROUND BACK SIDE OF SURFACE RIDGE...HOWEVER THINK AT THIS TIME THAT DECENT MOISTURE RECOVERY OVER OUR AREA WILL HOLD OFF UNTIL SUNDAY. WILL CONTINUE RAIN CHANCES SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH STRONG SHORTWAVE AND DECENT JET STRUCTURE SETTING UP IN NORTHWEST FLOW...AND SECONDARY FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA SOMETIME AROUND MONDAY MORNING. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LOOKS DRY WITH A WARMING TREND...AS UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S. BUILDS INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND MIDWEST. .SGF...NONE MO...NONE. KS...NONE. TERRY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:00 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 * EXPECTED WEATHER HAZARDS... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH UP TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL ...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN. * AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING... ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44 FROM 3 PM TO 8 PM. * DISCUSSION... AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT PUSH THROUGH THE AREA...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION COULD ALLOW A FEW STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION OUTLOOK... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED FOR LOCATIONS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 44. * EXTENDED OUTLOOK... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY. MMT THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 13, 2002
- Flooding in Iowa, June 13 to 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 13, 2002
- Flood in West Virginia, June 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Ohio, June 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, June 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: 5301275.