Name: Hail in Missouri, April 29, 2003
Start: 2003-04-29T15:40
End: 2003-04-29T15:40
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 29, 2:45 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 2:45 PM CST, 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
345 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003

MAIN PROBLEMS THIS PKG AGAIN TO BE CHCS FOR PCPN THRU NR TERM AND
THEN TEMPS IN XTNDD. QSTNRY FNT OVR SRN ZNS AND MSTLY CLR SKIES WITH
SFC DEW PTS IN LO-MID 60S AND AMASS HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE. TSRA
DVLPD ALG AND TO N OF FNT THIS AFTN BUT SHOULD DIMINISH AFT SS. LLJ
TO SET UP TO W AGAIN TNGT AND ANTHR MCS SHUD DVLP OVR CTRL PLNS AND
MOV E-SE OVRNGT. WL GO LIKELY POPS IN NRN ZNS AND HI CHC ELSW.

SFC LO TO DVLP IN CTRL PLNS TNGT AS NXT VIG S/WV MOVS OUT OF RCKY
MTNS. STG WAA OVR RGN ON WED AND TEMPS SHUD BE ANTHR CAT WRMR WED.
BEST CHCS FOR TSRA TO BE ON THU WITH NXT CD FNT MOVG ACRS RGN. META
A LTL FASTER WITH FNT THAN GFS BUT CONDS DVLPG FOR STG TSRA AND PSBL
SQLN DVLPMT THU WITH FNT.

FOR XTNDD FRI AND SAT WL BE DRY BUT TSRA TO RTN BY SUN AFTN AND CONT
MON. TUE TO BE COOLER AND DRY AGAIN.

.STL...NONE.

WDB

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 12:25 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-
034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-301200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
125 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI
AND WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE
AREA.  THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...WITH THE PRIMARY CONCERNS BEING LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS.  A WARM FRONT WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES NORTH THROUGH THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER
MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN WEDNESDAY IN
THE WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION.  THERE IS A RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE
REGION.

THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS THE
NEXT STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE MIDWEST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI
AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT...
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LSX (ALL LOWER CASE)

TES

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:37 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Madison

When: April 29, 3:40 PM CST
Where: Madison County, Mine la Motte
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.617, -90.300

Storm spotters reported nickel size hail.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Missouri in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, April 2003

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: 5348253.