Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, September 13, 2005

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, September 13, 2005
Start: 2005-09-13T19:30
End: 2005-09-13T19:30
Location: Illinois

September 13, 2005 · NWS LSX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

Amateur radio spotters reported nickel size hail and several trees down in Paloma.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 happened

The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.

Amateur radio spotters reported nickel size hail and several trees down in Paloma.

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 Sep 13, 2:35 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 2:35 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
335 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

.DISCUSSION...PRETTY BUSY AROUND HERE WITH WATCH IN EFFECT BUT IT
LOOKS LIKE AMS OVR OUR AREA WILL CONTINUE TO DESTABLIZE AS THE
SHORT WAVE APPROACHES AND CDFNT MOVES OUR WAY. SWLY FLOW ALOFT
WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND SVRL THUNDERSTORMS
ARE DEVELOPING FM LAKE OF THE OZARKS SOUTHWEST WITH A COUPLE OF
THEM ALREADY REACHING SUPERCELL STATUS.  LOOK FOR ACTIVITY TO
CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE EVENING.  TSTM WATCH 783 IN EFFECT
UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI AND WOULD NOT BE
SURPRISED TO SEE ANOTHER WATCH FURTHER EAST LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

IN LONGER RANGE CDFNT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA AND
SLOW OR STALL TO THE SOUTH. THEN SOME OVERRUNNING IS POSSIBLE
ALG/N OF THE FNT THURSDAY/THURSDAY NIGHT.  ETA HAS REALLY BIT
THE BULLET AND CREATES HEAVY RAIN OVR OUR AREA. IT IS THE ODD
MAN OUT HOWEVER AND AT THIS POINT WILL FCST CHC POPS FOR SRN PTN
OF THE COUNTY AREA AND WAIT FOR FURTHER MODEL DATA TO LIFT IT
ANY FURTHER NORTH.

&&

.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
IL...NONE.
&&

PEDIGO

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 6:25 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
725 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-
034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-141100-
ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOND IL-BOONE-BROWN-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY-CLINTON IL-
COLE-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE IL-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL-IRON-JEFFERSON-
JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MACOUPIN IL-MADISON-MADISON IL-MARION-
MARION IL-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONROE IL-MONTGOMERY-MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE-
PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS-SHELBY-ST CHARLES-
ST CLAIR IL-ST FRANCOIS-ST LOUIS-ST LOUIS CITY-STE GENEVIEVE-WARREN-
WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL-
725 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND
CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE
SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION. A FEW OF THESE
STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE COLD FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY JUST SOUTH OF MISSOURI...
CAUSING A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE REGION
INTO THURSDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AS ANOTHER STORM
SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE MIDWEST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 13, 4:43 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
543 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0529 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 SW CUBA               38.01N 91.46W
09/13/2005                   CRAWFORD           MO   PUBLIC

            BARN DAMAGED 5 SOUTHWEST OF CUBA.

&&

TRUETT

Local storm report, Sep 13, 4:45 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
545 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CUBA                    38.06N 91.40W
09/13/2005                   CRAWFORD           MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SMALL TO MEDIUM TREES AND LARGE LIMBS DOWN IN THE TOWN OF
            CUBA

&&

TRUETT

Local storm report, Sep 13, 5:02 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
602 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CUBA                    38.06N 91.40W
09/13/2005                   CRAWFORD           MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            POWER LINES DOWN IN THE TOWN OF CUBA

&&

TRUETT

Local storm report, Sep 13, 6:58 PM CST, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
758 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0735 PM     TSTM WND DMG     IRONTON                 37.60N 90.64W
09/13/2005                   IRON               MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN IN IRONTON

&&

TRUETT

Local storm report, Sep 13, 7:04 PM CST, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
804 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BISMARCK                37.77N 90.62W
09/13/2005                   ST. FRANCOIS       MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN TOWN.

&&

TRUETT

Local storm report, Sep 13, 7:05 PM CST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
805 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0758 PM     TSTM WND DMG     IRON MOUNTAIN           37.70N 90.64W
09/13/2005                   ST. FRANCOIS       MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES AND LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.

&&

TRUETT

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Adams

When: September 13, 7:30 PM CST
Where: Adams County, 1 mi SW of Paloma
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.000, -91.217

Thunderstorm Wind, Adams

When: September 13, 7:30 PM CST
Where: Adams County, Paloma
Measured: 57 kt (66 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 40.017, -91.200

What these are

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

Every storm in Illinois in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Illinois, September 2005

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: 5476159, 5476160.