1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 27, 2:40 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 340 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 SUMMERTIME FCSTG HAS RETURNED TO THE AREA IN RPD FASHION OVR THE PAST 48 HRS WITH THE RPD NWD RETREAT OF THE WESTERLIES. WITH WK UPR FLOW PROGGED TO CONT OVR AREA THRUOUT THE NR TERM...IT APRS THAT CNVTV TRENDS WL BE DRIVEN BY DFCLT TO FCST OUTFLO BNDRYS AND CNVTVLY INDUCED VORT CNTRS....MUCH LK WHAT HAS OCRD TDA. FOR TNGT...THINK MAIN PCPN THRT WL OCR DURG THE EVE IN 2 MAIN LOCATIONS. ONE IS OVR SE ZNS...JUST AHD OF THE RMNTS OF LAST NGTS SHTWV AND DYING OUTFLO BNDRY...WHILE THE SECOND IS OVR N AREAS IN THE VCNTY OF UIN...WHERE OUTFLO APRS TO BE KICKING OFF SM LATE DAY TSTMS. ALL OF THIS PCPN SHUD WIND DOWN THIS EVE...AND THEN IT APRS THAT WELL WAIT FOR ADDL DVPMT...PROB WELL AFT MIDN...AS WK SHTWV EJECTS FROM S PLAINS. WHETHER THIS IS FROM CNVTN OR CURRENTLY DEFINED FTR IS TUFF TO DETERMINE...BUT ALL 3 MDLS SEEM TO AGREE THAT THIS WL BE VCNTY OF S MO BY MRNG. THIS AXIS THEN FCST TO ROTATE NE AND GETS STRETCHED ACR AREA BTWN STG WESTERLIES TO THE N AND WK FLOW IN S BRANCH. THIS CORRESPONDS TO THE HI POPS THAT ARE IN GOING FCST...AND WL CONT THIS TREND. WL DROP POPS BACK INTO CHC CATEGORY FOR TUE TNGT AND INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WK. WITH THE UNSTBL AMS OVR AREA DONT THINK THAT WX WL RMN DRY...BUT ONCE AGAIN ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A FTR TO KEY PCPN THRT ON. MOS TEMPS LK GD WITH ERY SUMMER AMS RMNG LOCKED OVR AREA. .STL...NONE TRUETT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm wind gusts caused a large tree to snap at its base. The tree fell onto a utility pole and transformer.
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, May 2002
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