Hail in Missouri, April 6, 2003

Name: Hail in Missouri, April 6, 2003
Start: 2003-04-06T13:57
End: 2003-04-06T13:57
Location: Missouri

April 6, 2003 · NWS SGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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

Open the live radar over this ground

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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 9:58 AM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 9:58 AM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1058 AM CDT SUN APR 6 2003

WILL BE MAKING SOME SHORT TERM ADJUSTMENTS...MAINLY TO TEMPERATURES.

ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LOTS OF PEA TO PENNY HAIL OCCURRING OVER
THE FORECAST AREA AS AN MCS MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. HAD REPORTS
EARLIER OF WET SNOW...ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL MO...AND EVEN ONE REPORT
IN SGF WITH A HEAVY SHOWER. WET SNOW MAY OCCUR IN CENTRAL MO THROUGH
EARLY AFTERNOON...BUT WARM AIR ADVECTION SHOULD OVERCOME COLD AIR AS
THE DAY WEARS ON...SO THIS IS NOT MUCH OF A CONCERN.

QUICK LOOK AT NEW MESO ETA INDICATES THAT A NARROW AXIS OF LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE WILL TRY TO SURGE NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE THAT NOW
EXTENDS FROM WESTERN OK INTO CENTRAL TX. A LOT WILL BE DEPENDENT ON
CLOUD COVER AS TO HOW MUCH SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY CAN OCCUR...BUT
ETA DEPICTS DEWPOINTS SURGING WELL INTO THE 50S IN A NARROW CORRIDOR
OVER EXTREME SW MO AND SE KS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE
DRYLINE/COLD FRONT. GIVEN 0-3KM SHEAR...WOULD NOT BE AT ALL
SURPRISED TO SEE NEAR SURFACE BASED SUPERCELLS IN OUR SW COUNTIES
ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF A LINE OF STORMS THAT WILL DEVELOP LATER
TODAY ALONG THE DRY LINE/COLD FRONT...BUT AGAIN IT IS HIGHLY
CONDITIONAL BASED ON CLOUD COVER/SURFACE HEATING.

PRELIMINARY EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION...EXTENDED PERIODS ARE
QUIET. UNSEASONABLY COLD NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES EXPECTED MON NIGHT
THROUGH WED NIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 20S POSSIBLE TUE NIGHT/WED WITH
SFC RIDGE NEAR OR JUST WEST OF THE AREA AND LITTLE CLOUD COVER..AND
1000-500MB THICKNESS VALUES OF 5300M PROGGED BY THE 00Z GFS. WARMING
TREND WILL OCCUR LATE IN THE WEEK AND NEXT WEEKEND WITH MIDLEVEL
HEIGHT RISES. WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES SUNDAY ON PRELIMINARY
GRIDDED FORECAST WITH HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S.

...SGF...
MO...NONE
KS...NONE

DSA

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 6, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>091-093>098-101>106-
071100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME
SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN THIS
AFTERNOON...THEN AN ADDTIONAL ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY THIS EVENING

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

THUNDERSTORMS WITH PENNY TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL WILL CONTINUE OVER
SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FORT
SCOTT TO ROLLA THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AFTER 5 PM...OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST
KANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA...THEN MOVE EAST EARLY THIS EVENING
AFFECTING AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PITTSBURG KANSAS TO GAINESVILLE
THROUGH 10 PM.

  DISCUSSION:

ONGOING STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ARE
ASSOCIATED WITH THE BACK EDGE OF A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX THAT MOVED
THROUGH THE REGION EARLIER TODAY. THESE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY MOVE
NORTHEAST AND WEAKEN WITH TIME THIS AFTERNOON. LOW PRESSURE OVER
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL GRADUALLY MOVE EAST INTO SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND
NORTHERN ARKANSAS THIS EVENING. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE NORTHWARD
AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...AND EXTEND FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF
MISSOURI SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. ADDTIONAL STORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA
ALONG A COLD FRONT/DRY LINE AND SOUTH OF THE WARM FRONT. GIVEN THE
UPPER AIR WIND PROFILE...SUPERCELL STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
THUNDERSTORM REDEVELOPMENT WILL BE CONDITIONAL BASED ON THE AMOUNT
OF SURFACE HEATING THAT WILL BE PRESENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON. IF A
DENSE CLOUD COVER HOLDS...SEVERE STORMS WILL BE MUCH LESS LIKELY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

UNSEASONABLY COLD WEATHER WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF THE
STORM SYSTEM ON MONDAY. LOW TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO
NEAR FREEZING OVER MUCH OF THE REGION EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. LIGHT
WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES UNDERNEATH NEARBY HIGH PRESSURE WILL LIKELY
DROP TEMPERATURES INTO THE 25 TO 28 DEGREE RANGE OVER THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

IN THE SHORT TERM...SPOTTERS SHOULD RELAY HAIL REPORTS ALONG WITH
REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
THIS EVENING OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI IF
SUPERCELL STORMS CAN DEVELOP.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER
WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF

DSA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 6, 12:23 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
123 PM CDT SUN APR 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0115 PM    7 S LAMAR                 MO   .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/03   BARTON

Local storm report, Apr 6, 12:51 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
151 PM CDT SUN APR 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0149 PM    HUMANSVILLE               MO   1 INCH HAIL
04/06/03   POLK                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 6, 12:53 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
153 PM CDT SUN APR 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 PM    OLYMPIA                   MO   .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/03   CEDAR                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 6, 12:57 PM CST, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
157 PM CDT SUN APR 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 PM    OSCEOLA                   MO   .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/03   ST.CLAIR                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 6, 1:14 PM CST, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
214 PM CDT SUN APR 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0210 PM    MACKS CREEK               MO   .75 INCH HAIL
04/06/03   CAMDEN                         REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Apr 6, 1:27 PM CST, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
227 PM CDT SUN APR 06 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0215 PM    ELKTON                    MO   .88 INCH HAIL
04/06/03   HICKORY

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:57 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Benton

When: April 6, 1:57 PM CST
Where: Benton County, Knobby
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.150, -93.100

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

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: 5352580.