Hail in Missouri, July 11, 2003

Name: Hail in Missouri, July 11, 2003
Start: 2003-07-11T20:30
End: 2003-07-11T20:30
Location: Missouri

July 11, 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.

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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 11, 8:30 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 8:30 PM CST, 0 minutes before

MESOSCALE FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
930 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

.DISCUSSION...
LATEST SATELLITE/PROFILERS AND RADAR CONTINUE TO INDICATE STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PROPAGATING SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 45 KTS ACROSS
SOUTHERN MISSOURI. DEEP LAYER SHEAR REMAINS HIGH (50-65 KTS) OVER
THE REGION WITH GOOD VEERING FROM THE SURFACE TO 50H. LOWEST 5K WIND
PROFILER NETWORK HAS INDICATED A STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET OVER
NORTHERN OKLAHOMA...INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS SINCE 01Z. ALSO VIS/FOG
SATELLITE HAS AN INCREASE AMOUNT OF CUMULUS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL
MISSOURI DURING THE LAST HOUR...WITH CONVECTION RE-DEVELOPING OVER
CENTRAL MISSOURI ALONG GREATEST 85H THETA-E AXIS.

IF CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE ORIENTATION OF THE LOW
LEVEL JET INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS...RE-DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION WILL
CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI DURING THE NEXT FEW
HOURS...WHICH MEANS THE INCREASE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY/FLOODING RAINS.

&&

.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.MO...NONE.
.KS...NONE.

JLT

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 5:45 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-121100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
645 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE TONIGHT...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...ISOLATED STORMS MAY
  CONTAIN:
    HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS.
    WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS 60 MPH.

  LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF AN INCH.

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AN STRONG
  MOISTURE AXIS LINE FROM WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...SOUTH OF KANSAS
  CITY...TO SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI DURING THE EVENING. ALTHOUGH THE
  SEVERE THREAT WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY
  CONTINUE...AND BECOME MORE OF HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCER. MOST OF THE
  OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL BE IN THE THREAT AREA OVERNIGHT.

  DISCUSSION:

  A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE
  MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TONIGHT. AS THE DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA
  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME
  MORE NUMEROUS TONIGHT AS THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE GETS CLOSER
  TO THE AREA AND A LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPS. STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL
  COMBINED WITH MODERATELY STRONG INSTABILITY AND LEAD TO FAVORABLE
  CONDITIONS FOR SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE TONIGHT.

  IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THREAT...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
  CONTAIN HEAVY RAINFALL. AT THIS TIME CONDITIONS DO NOT APPEAR
  FAVORABLE FOR WIDESPREAD OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...BUT SOME
  LOCATIONS COULD SEE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES TONIGHT.
  RAINFALL OF THIS MAGNITUDE COULD LEAD TO PONDING OF WATER OR
  MINOR FLOODING IN THE TYPICAL LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

  THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT OVER SOUTHERN
  MISSOURI TOMORROW. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED
  ALONG THE BOUNDARY DURING THE DAY TOMORROW. IT IS UNCLEAR HOW
  TONIGHTS THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CLOUD COVER AND SUBSEQUENT
  INSTABILITY...HOWEVER IF THE ATMOSPHERE DOES DESTABILIZE...WIND
  FIELDS WILL REMAIN SUPPORTIVE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE
  HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AGAIN ON SATURDAY.

  THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY AS
  YET ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY ANYTIME THIS EVENING...BUT IS
  MORE LIKELY AFTER 9 PM OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST
  KANSAS.

&&

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

JLT/IZZI

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 6:16 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
716 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

0707 PM    3 N GROVESPRING           MO   .88 INCH HAIL
07/11/03   WRIGHT                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 11, 7:04 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
804 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

0800 PM    ST ROBERT                 MO   1 INCH HAIL
07/11/03   PULASKI                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 11, 7:23 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
823 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

0745 PM    4 SW BRINKTOWN            MO   WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03   MARIES                         TREES FELL ACROSS HIGHWAY
                                          BB. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 11, 7:45 PM CST, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
845 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

0845 PM    LICKING                   MO   .75 INCH HAIL
07/11/03   TEXAS                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 11, 7:49 PM CST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
849 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

0847 PM    MAPLETON                  KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/11/03   BOURBON                        REPORTED BY TRAINED STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 11, 8:24 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
924 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

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

0923 PM    LOWRY CITY                MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/11/03   ST.CLAIR                       REPORTED BY VOLUNTEER
                                          WEATHER OBSERVER.

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 169 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Shannon

When: July 11, 8:30 PM CST
Where: Shannon County, 6 mi W of West Eminence
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 37.150, -91.500

What these are

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

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, July 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: 5373152.