Name: Flash Flood in Missouri, June 25, 2002
Start: 2002-06-25T19:00
End: 2002-06-25T23:00
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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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 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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 2:05 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:05 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
305 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

PROBS THIS PD WILL BE POPS AND TIMING ON CDFNT ACRS FA ON THU. UA
PTTN CONTS PROGRESSION OF UPR LVL CYCLC CIRCLN OVR LWR MS VLY WITH
WV IMGRY SHWG BROAD TROPICAL FEED INTO RGN. MRNG SOUNDINGS INDCTD
PWS 1.5-2 IN AND TSRA DVLPD OVR SW IL-E CTRL MO IN MIDLVL CONVRNGC
FM SRN CIRCLN AND APCHG S/WV TROF OVR UPR MIDWST. THIS S/WV TO
STRENGTHEN OVR GT LKS BY 36H AS TROF TO S OPENS AND EVOLVES INTO
POSITIVE TILTED TROF.

AT SFC MDLS HV SLOWED SWD PROGRESSION OF WK CDFNT WITH EXPECTED
FROPA VCNTY KSTL ARND 00Z FRI. XPCT DIURNAL CNVCTN TO WKN TNGT AND
REDEVELOP ON WED SIMLR TO TDA WITH CHC POPS THRU THU. CDFNT TO
STALL/DISPT TO S LTR IN PD BUT WL KP DRY XCPT FOR LO POPS IN XTRM
SRN ZN. LTL CHG IN TEMPS THRU EXTND WITH VALS AT OR NR NRML.

.STL...NONE

WDB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:00 PM CST, 3 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
500 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

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

0335 PM    CAMP POINT                IL   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02   ADAMS                          REPORTED BY SEVERE
                                          WEATHER SPOTTERS.

0335 PM    CAMP POINT                IL   WIND DAMAGE
06/25/02   ADAMS                          LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWNED.
                                          REPORTED BY SEVERE
                                          WEATHER SPOTTERS.

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:02 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Jefferson

When: June 25, 7:00 PM CST to 11:00 PM CST
Where: Jefferson County, Hillsboro
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.261, -90.538 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rain flooded several roads in the Hillsboro area. The intersection of routes Y and C was flooded and closed. Several other county roads in the area were flooded and impassable.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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, 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: 5298222.