Thunderstorm Wind, McDonald
- When
- May 6, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- McDonald County, Longview
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.717, -94.217
Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 6, 2002
Several trees were blown down near Longview.
Where it happened
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- 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.
Several trees were blown down near Longview.
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 6, 1:28 AM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:28 AM CST, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 228 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 1ST PERIOD FORECAST CONCERNS...COVERAGE/CHANCE OF PCPN REST OF FORECAST LOOKS TO BE PERSISTENCE WITH TEMPERATURES/PCPN CHANCES AND SKY COVER. PROFILER DATA SHOWS WEAK MID/UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER WRN MO WITH VERY STRONG 8H JET FEEDING CONVECTION OVER NRN MO. RADAR ALSO SHOWING MAINLY HEAVY RAIN WITH A FEW SEVERE TSRA POSSIBLE...MOVING INTO SW MO ATTM. THIS JIVES WELL WITH MESO ETA QPF FIELDS. ANYHOW...PERSISTENCE LOOKS TO BE THE WAY TO GO FOR THE SHORT TERM FORECAST..WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND LOW IN THE 60S OVER CWA. MODELS SHOWS SEVERAL WEAK SHORT WAVES IN 5H SW FLOW THRU THE PERIOD..THUS SEE NO REASON TO REMOVE ANY CHC/LOW POPS FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE. MOS VALUES ARE JUST ABOUT THE SAME FOR TEMPERATURES AND WILL LEAN TOWARDS THEM. FOR SKY COVER WILL BROADBRUSH WITH PARTLY CLOUDY THRU PERIOD. THUS...LOOKS LIKE A WARM FRONT WILL SET UP OVER NRN MO/IA MONDAY THRU WEDNESDAY THEN AVN SHOWS A COLD FRONT PUSHING THRU CWA BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY MORNING. 7H TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 10 TO 11C ESPECIALLY ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OVER MOST OF CWA...ERN ZONES SHOULD BE A TAD COOLER. BUT ANY OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE 80S...WILL KEEP LOW POPS IN FOR TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY. AS FOR TODAY...BASED ON RADAR TRENDS AND PASSAGE OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVES...PCPN SHOULD BE SCATTERED AT BEST AND WILL WIND DOWN BY NOON. WILL NOT GET FANCY HOWEVER AND MAINTAIN LOW POPS ACROSS CWA FOR TODAY. EXTENDED FORECAST...LOOKING AT NEW MRF...IT LOOKS LIKE UNSETTLED WEATHER THRU THE PERIOD WITH POPS AROUND 40/50 PERCENT. BUT WILL KEEP FRIDAY/SATURDAY DRY THEN BRING BACK PCPN ON SUNDAY NIGHT...OTHERWISE WILL KEEP CURRENT LOW POPS IN. ISC GRIDS ARE OUT. .SGF... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. SS
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:59 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, May 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 6 to 7, 2002
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, May 6, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 6, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 6, 2002
- Flooding in Indiana, May 6 to 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, May 6, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 6, 2002
- Hail in Michigan, May 6, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 6 to 17, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 6, 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: 5293914.