Name: Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 9, 2002
Start: 2002-05-09T02:10
End: 2002-05-09T02:10
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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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 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 9, 1:46 AM CST, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 1:46 AM CST, 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
100 AM CDT THU MAY 9 2002

AMENDED TO MAINTAIN KENTUCKY COUNTIES IN FFA.

LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A LOW OVER SW WISCONSIN WITH AN
ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO OKLAHOMA WHERE THE
BOUNDARY INTERSECTS ANOTHER LOW CENTER. REGIONAL RADAR LOOP SHOWS A
LINE OF STORMS ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT WITH EXTENSIVE POST
FRONTAL PRECIPITATION.

00Z MODEL RUNS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH BRINGING PRECIP INTO THE FA
BEFORE 06Z. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT ACCURATE. HOWEVER...CURRENTLY LINE
IS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 40 MPH AND SHOULD REACH THE NORTHWEST
BORDER OF THE PAH FA AROUND 7Z. THE MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT
ON TAKING THE FRONT SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER BY 18Z TODAY. THE MAIN
DISCREPANCY IS WITH THE POST FRONTAL PRECIP. AS FOR QPF THE ETA
MODEL LOOKS MUCH MORE REASONABLE AND WILL FAVOR ITS SOLUTION AS THE
AVN SHOWS SIGNS OF CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK. LATEST LAPS SHOWS STORMS
MOVING INTO LESS FAVORABLE ATMOSPHERE FOR SEVERE AND CURRENT
REGIONAL 88D LOOP SUPPORTS STORMS WEAKENING. WITH CAPES...LIS...AND
DEW POINTS DECREASING AHEAD OF PRECIP...WOULD EXPECT THIS TREND TO
CONTINUE. ALTHOUGH THE INTENSITY IS DECREASING...FFG WOULD INDICATE
VERY LITTLE PRECIP NEEDED OVER WATCH AREA TO EXCEED FFG. WITH THIS
IN MIND WILL MAINTAIN FFA THIS MORNING. FOLLOWING THE ETA RUN WILL
START DIMINISHING TSRA CHANCES THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST
OF THE OHIO RIVER.

AFTER THIS SYSTEM DEPARTS THE AREA HIGH PRESSURE TAKES OVER THROUGH
FRIDAY. AFTER THAT THE SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SETS UP AND ANOTHER
SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND EJECTS NORTHEAST...JUST
NORTHWEST OF THE REGION SATURDAY. AN ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT SHOULD
OVERTAKE THE REGION SATURDAY. BELIEVE SOME PRECIP WILL BE POSSIBLE
BUT WILL NOT BUY INTO IT WHOLE HEARTEDLY. SUNDAY NIGHT LOOKS TO BE
THE BEST CHANCE OF TSRAS FOR THE AREA AS THE UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE
ROTATES THROUGH BRINGING ANOTHER COLD FRONT THROUGH.

OTHER THAN THE FIRST PERIOD NUMERICAL GUIDANCE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND
WILL FOLLOW TREND. WITH PLENTY OF RAIN AND CLOUD COVER TODAY WILL GO
A LITTLE COOLER THAN FWC.

.PAH...FFA FOR ALL OF PAHS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI COUNTIES...SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS COUNTIES...SOUTHWEST INDIANA COUNTIES AND ALL OF THE
KENTUCKY COUNTIES NORTHWEST OF A MURRAY TO GREENVILLE LINE.

KH

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Bollinger

When: May 9, 2:10 AM CST
Where: Bollinger County, Gipsy
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.167, -90.183

Trees were down across Highway E.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5295483.