Hail in Missouri, June 18, 2002

Name: Hail in Missouri, June 18, 2002
Start: 2002-06-18T04:55
End: 2002-06-18T05:39
Location: Missouri

June 18, 2002 · NWS EAX · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

3 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 1:00 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:00 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
200 AM CDT TUE JUN 18 2002

CURRENTLY WATCHING TWO BATCHES OF PCPN ON RADAR/SAT...BOTH OF WHICH
SHUD NARROWLY MISS CWA.  THE FIRST IS BETWEEN SERN NEB AND NERN
KS...WHICH CORFIDI VECTORS SHOW CONTINUING TO THE SSE.  THIS MAY
JUST HIT THE EDGES OF EXTREME WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN CWA.  THE
SECOND BATCH OF RAIN IS UP IN IA...AND DUE TO LACK OF MAJOR
STEERING...THIS SHOULD STAY NEARLY STATIONARY...AND THEN VERY SLOWLY
MOVE ESE.

KIND OF DIGGING THE AVN THIS MORNING WHICH HAS A BETTER HANDLE ON
ONGOING PCPN.  HAVE KEPT IN LOW CHC POPS FOR TODAY.  SHOULD SEE
LLVL JET WHICH WILL KEEP THE WINDS BREEZY. AVN PROGS A VORT MAX AND
7H WAVE TO GO OVER THE SWRN PORTIONS OF FA AND HAS H3 DIVERGENCE
ALONG WITH. WHILE MAJOR SFC FEATURES ARE LACKING...AN OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. THERE IS ALSO SOME 7-8 DEG
LAPSE RATES ESP IN WRN FA WHICH MAY ALLOW SOME SCT TSRA TO FIRE IN
THE HEAT OF THE DAY.  HAVE GONE A LITTLE ABV GUID...EXPECTING TEMPS
SIMILAR TO THOSE OF MON.

NOT MUCH GOING ON AFT THAT AS LOW IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST GETS IT
TOGETHER.  BY MID WEEK...SFC FRONT STALLS JUST TO THE NORTH. HAVE
ADDED IN SOME CLOUDS...BUT FEEL THAT THE NORTHERN ZONES SHOULD STAY
DRY. AS FRONT MOVES BACK NORTH...LATEST MRF LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT WASH
OUT AROUND CWA IN THE SUN/MON TIMEFRAME. HAVE RETAINED POPS FOR MON.

EAX...
KS...NONE
MO...NONE

LVQ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:50 AM CST, 5 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-181800-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
550 AM CDT TUE JUN 18 2002

* HAZARDS EXPECTED -
ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MID MORNING IN LOCATIONS
MAINLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 36.  HAIL IS THE MAIN THREAT. SOME STORMS
MAY REDEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON.  WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER
IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY BECOME STRONG WITH
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH POSSIBLE.

* SPOTTER ACTIVATION -
MAY BE NEEDED FOR A SHORT TIME THIS MORNING...AND ARE NOT
ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON.

DISCUSSION: LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND A WEAK UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE HAVE
WORKED TOGETHER TO INITIATE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN
KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING.  AS THESE STORMS MOVE
SOUTH AND EAST...THEY WILL GET FARTHER AWAY FROM THE UNSTABLE
AIR...WHERE THEY ARE EXPECTED TO LOSE THEIR INTENSITY AND GRADUALLY
TAPER OFF.  THESE STORMS MAY LEAVE SOME OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT MAY
BE THE SOURCE FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE
INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/EAX
OR AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV.

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The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:53 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Andrew

When: June 18, 4:55 AM CST
Where: Andrew County, Savannah
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.933, -94.833

Hail, Andrew

When: June 18, 5:39 AM CST
Where: Andrew County, Cosby
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates: 39.867, -94.683

Hail, De Kalb

When: June 18, 5:39 AM CST
Where: De Kalb County, Clarksdale
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.817, -94.567

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5301521, 5301522, 5301523.