Name: Hail in Missouri, June 4, 2005
Start: 2005-06-04T19:52
End: 2005-06-04T19:52
Location: Missouri

Where it happened

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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 Jun 4, 2:10 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:10 PM CST, 5 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
310 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

.DISCUSSION...
SUMMER-LIKE PTTN HAS EVOLVED OVR CTRL U.S. WITH RTN OF WARM HUMID
DAYS. MOST OF FA MISSED ON PCPN THIS MRNG AND DRY PTTN DIFFICULT TO
BRK. UA SYNOP FLOW HAS 500MB CLZD LO OVR ERN CO WITH RDGG FM ERN GLF
MEX N TO GT LKS AND E PAC. SVRL S/WVS MOVG NE ARND PLNS LO TO
TRIGGER PDS OF TSRA AS INSTABILITY INCREASES OVR RGN. BOTH NAM AND
GFS HAVING DIFFICULTY IN TIMING AND PLACEMENT OF PCPN AND NCAR WRF
HAS BEEN MDL OF CHOICE FOR FA FOR LAST 2 DAYS. 500MB LO TO LIFT NE
INT WRN ONT BY 36HRS WITH RDGG OVR PLNS AS L/WV TROF MOVS INLAND IN
PAC NW BY 48HRS. BEST CHCS FOR PCPN FOR FA TO BE LT TNGT AND SUN
THEN LESS CHCS FOR ERLY AND MID WK AS RDG BLDS OVR RGN.

MOS TEMPS IN FAIRLY CLS AGMT AND ONLY MADE MINOR ADJS. MAXES TO BE
IN MID-UPR 80S AND MINS UPR 60S-LOW 70S WITH 2-3 DEG WRMR IN METRO
RGN. WITH WRN PTN FA IN MDT RISK TNGT WL INCLD RISK OF STG SFC
WNDS/LRG HAIL IN ZNS THERE. AFT NR TERM...NXT CHCS FOR PCPN APPRS TO
BE WED NGT THRU FRI IN XTNDD AS UPR RDG MOVS E OF FA AND RGN COMES
UNDER SWLY FLOW AGAIN.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ST LOUIS        73  90  69  89 /  40  40  30  20
QUINCY          70  87  64  86 /  70  40  30  20
COLUMBIA        69  87  65  89 /  60  40  30  20
JEFFERSON CITY  69  87  66  89 /  60  40  30  20
SALEM           70  88  67  87 /  40  40  40  20
FARMINGTON      70  88  67  86 /  40  40  40  20

&&

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

&&

BECHTOLD

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 3:48 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
448 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

ILZ064-065-069-070-074-079-101-102-MOZ065-073>075-084-085-099-051200-
BOND IL-CLINTON IL-FAYETTE IL-IRON-JEFFERSON-MADISON-MARION IL-
MONROE IL-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS-ST CLAIR IL-ST FRANCOIS-STE GENEVIEVE-
WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL-
448 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND
SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT ANTICIPATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS A WEAK
COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.

ILZ058>060-095>100-MOZ018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>052-
059>064-072-051200-
ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOONE-BROWN-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY-COLE-CRAWFORD-
FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL-JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-
MACOUPIN IL-MADISON IL-MARION-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-
MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE-PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-SHELBY-ST CHARLES-ST LOUIS-
ST LOUIS CITY-WARREN-
448 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN
MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN
KANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI...THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI LATE
THIS EVENING...AND MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL
MISSOURI OVERNIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL APPEAR TO BE THE
MAIN THREATS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IF THEY MAINTAIN THERE
STRENGTH AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS A WEAK
COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.

CVKING

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:22 PM CST, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
822 PM CDT SAT JUN 04 2005

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

0815 PM     TSTM WND DMG     NEWARK                  39.99N 91.97W
06/04/2005                   KNOX               MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREE LIMBS DOWN...WIND ESTIMATED BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MPH.

0815 PM     HAIL             NEWARK                  39.99N 91.97W
06/04/2005  0.75 INCH        KNOX               MO   AIRPLANE PILOT

            PENNY SIZE HAIL OBSERVED IN NEWARK, MO

&&

CVKING

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:32 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
832 PM CDT SAT JUN 04 2005

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

0819 PM     HAIL             4 N BETHEL              39.94N 92.02W
06/04/2005  0.75 INCH        SHELBY             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CVKING

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 190 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:52 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lewis

When: June 4, 7:52 PM CST
Where: Lewis County, La Belle
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.117, -91.917

The public reported 3/4 inch 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 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, June 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: 5452560.