Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- August 28, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Pike County, Curryville
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.350, -91.350
The County Sheriff Department reported trees down in Curryville.
Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 28, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, 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
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 Aug 28, 1:50 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 1:50 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 250 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2003 .DISCUSSION... SIMILIAR CONCERNS WITH THIS PACKAGE AS PREVIOUS...TIMING OF FRONT ACROSS FA AND ASSOCIATED PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURES. BROAD 500MB RIDGE ACROSS SRN U.S. CONTINUES TO WEAKEN AS L/WV TROUGH DROPS S OVER HUDSONS BAY. S/WV OVER UPPER MIDWEST WILL CROSS REGION TONIGHT AND ALLOW COLD FRONT TO MOVE S. NEXT VIGOROUS S/WV MOVING ONSHORE IN PAC NW WILL MOVE INTO CTRL PLAINS BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AND WILL LIMIT MOVEMENT OF FRONT TOO FAR S OF FA THROUGH EXTENDED. TSRA DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND WRN MO AT MIDDAY IN DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE. TEMPS ACROSS FA WARMING INTO LO-MID 90S IN AREAS OF LESS CLOUD COVER AND ATMOSPHERE BECOMING INCREASINGLY DESTABILIZED. PCPN AREA SHOULD SPREAD E AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AS FRONT MOVES S. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN MOVING FRONT ACROSS REGION TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. ETA SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN ETA WITH EACH MODEL SHOWING CONTINUITY WITH PREVIOUS RUNS. GFS DEVELOPS MORE PRONOUNCED WAVE ON FRONT OVER FA BY 36H WITH PRECIP BULLSEYE OVER NRN FA PROBABLY DUE TO CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK. ETA HINTS AT WAVE BUT KEEPS FRONT MOVING SE WITH MORE REALISTIC QPF GRADIENT. BOTH MODELS END TSRA FROM NORTH AND PRECIPITATION CLEARING ALL EXCEPT EXTREME S OF FA BY 12Z SATURDAY. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS IN SRN ZONES THRU SUNDAY. WITH CANADIAN HI PRESSURE MOVING INTO NRN PLAINS AND GT LAKES OVER WEEKEND WITH NELY SURFACE WINDS KEEPING MAX TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL FOR EXTENDED...WITH GRADUAL WARMING TOWARDS END OF EXTENDED. && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MO...NONE. .IL...NONE. WDB
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 5:15 AM CST, 10 hours 40 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>075-084-085-099-291300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 615 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WARM AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH OUT OF IOWA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH ACROSS MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE GIVEN THE ABUNDANT ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT WILL DIMINISH FROM NORTH TO SOUTH SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES SOUTH OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LSX (ALL LOWER CASE) BRITT
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:54 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
- Drought in Kansas, August 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 28, 2003
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 28, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 28, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in Georgia, August 28 to 29, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 28, 2003
- Lightning Strikes in Kansas, August 28, 2003
- Wildfire and Lightning Strike in California, August 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 28 to 29, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 28, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 28, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, August 28, 2003
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, August 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: 5377904.