Thunderstorm Wind, Shannon
- When
- May 12, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Shannon County, 5 mi N of Midridge
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.400, -91.217
Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 12, 2002
Trees were blown down north of Midridge.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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.
Trees were blown down north of Midridge.
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 May 12, 12:01 PM CST, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 12:01 PM CST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 101 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002 LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER BUSY EVENING/NITE COMING ACROSS CWA. SGF RADAR SHOWING FAIRLY STRONG TSRA OVER SE KS ATTM...BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. WAITING FOR SVR TSRA BOX TO COME OUT ANY MINUTE. CLOUDS COVERS ALL CWA WHICH HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 70S TO MID 60S BEHIND THE FRONT. MAIN PROBLEM IS WHAT TO DO WITH FFA. WILL KEEP CURRENT THINKING AS PREVIOUS SHIFT AND TRIM OFF THE NWRN ZONES OF CWA AND PUT A LIKELY POP...BASED ON MESO ETA QPF FIELDS. WILL KEEP THE FFA FOR REST OF CWA FOR TONIGHT. LOOKS LIKE EARLY MORNING HOURS MOST OF THE UPPER SUPPORT (5H TROF) IS PUSHING EAST OF CWA. WILL GO WITH BLEND OF ETA/MAV FOR TEMPERATURES. NICE/MILD/DRY WEATHER FOR THE REST OF THE FORECAST. ANOTHER 5H TROF WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT CWA BY END OF NEXT WEEK...MADE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO CURRENT EXTENDED. WILL SEND UPDATED AFD AFTER DETERMINE FFA GOES AND UPDATE ZONES FOR NEW SVR WEATHER BOX. SS
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 12, 3:47 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
447 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM CHARITY MO WIND DAMAGE
05/12/02 DALLAS TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 12, 3:59 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
459 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM GREENFIELD MO FLOOD
05/12/02 DADE HIGHWAY 245 AND 126
FLOODED. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 12, 4:18 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
518 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM ROLLA MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/12/02 PHELPS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 12, 4:41 PM CST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
541 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0540 PM BOLIVAR MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/12/02 POLK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 12, 4:59 PM CST, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
559 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM LOCKWOOD MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/12/02 DADE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 12, 5:01 PM CST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...AMMENDED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
601 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM LOCKWOOD MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/02 DADE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:22 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 Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 31, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, May 12, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 12, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 13, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Ohio, May 12, 2002
- Flood in Alaska, May 12 to 14, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 12 to 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, May 12 to 13, 2002
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, May 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: 5294250.