Thunderstorm Wind, Wright
- When
- May 8, 4:50 AM CST
- Where
- Wright County, Hartville
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -92.517
Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 8, 2002
Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 5 near Hartville.
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
- $5,000
- 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 and power lines were blown down along Highway 5 near Hartville.
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 8, 2:10 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:10 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 310 AM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 WILL EXPAND FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS ENTIRE CWA. ATTM MAJOR FLOODING WITH EVACUATIONS FROM BARRY COUNTY TO HOWELL COUNTY. ANOTHER ROUND OF TSRA PUSHING INTO WRN CWA AS WE SPEAK... WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS WORST. CURRENT MSAS DATA SHOWING COOL POCKET OVER CENTRAL MO WITH BOUNDARY ACROSS SRN MO AND VERY STRONG 8H JET (50-60KT) OVER SW MO. ALSO GOOD SURFACE CONVERGENCE ALONG SRN MO AND PROFILERS SHOWS GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE OVER WRN MO. THIS WILL KEEP THE THREAT OF MORE TSRA IN FOR 1ST PERIOD. WITH CLOUDS AND CHC OF PCPN WILL CUT TEMPS A LITTLE AND WILL GO NR 80 IN WRN ZONES TO MID 70S IN ERN ZONES FOR TODAY. ALSO THROW IN 50 POPS TODAY AND CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT AS ANOTHER UPPER TROF SWINGS ACROSS CWA DRAGGING A COLD FRONT WITH IT. COLD FRONT SHOULD BEGIN TO AFFECT NWRN ZONES AROUND MIDNIGHT. LOOKS LIKE A SQUAW LINE THIS TIME WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. EXTENDED FORECAST...TWEAK TEMPS DOWNS A FEW DEGREES AND LEFT EVERYTHING ELSE THE SAME. FCSTID = 07 .SGF... FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES MOZ055>058...MOZ066>071...MOZ077>083...MOZ088>098...MOZ101>106. .KS... FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES KSZ073...KSZ097...KSZ101.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 8, 2:01 AM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
301 AM CDT WED MAY 08 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 AM 5 NW GIRARD KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/02 CRAWFORD REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 8, 2:14 AM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
314 AM CDT WED MAY 08 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0312 AM GIRARD KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/02 CRAWFORD REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0312 AM GIRARD KS 70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/08/02 CRAWFORD
0312 AM GIRARD KS FLOOD. NUMEROUS ROADS
05/08/02 CRAWFORD CLOSED.Local storm report, May 8, 2:39 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
339 AM CDT WED MAY 08 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0336 AM MINDENMINES MO 1 INCH HAIL
05/08/02 BARTON HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND. 75 MPH WINDS
ALSO REPORTED. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 8, 3:27 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
427 AM CDT WED MAY 08 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 AM 1 N GREENFIELD MO 1 INCH HAIL
05/08/02 DADE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 8, 3:53 AM CST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
453 AM CDT WED MAY 08 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 AM EUDORA MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/08/02 POLK HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND. . REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 8, 4:19 AM CST, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
519 AM CDT WED MAY 08 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0508 AM SPRINGFIELD MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/08/02 GREENE REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:51 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
- Tornado in Ohio, May 8, 2002
- Flooding in Illinois, May 8 to 31, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 8, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 8, 2002
- Flooding in Kansas, May 8 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 8, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 8, 2002
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 8, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 31, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 8 to 10, 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: 5294096.