1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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, 55 minutes earlier.
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
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 79 year old woman was found dead in her home from heat related causes. The home had an air conditioner and a fan but neither was turned on. The high temperature the previous days had been in the lower 90s.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, St. Louis (C) | 2002-06-25 | 79 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
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, June 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: 5298314.