Hail in Missouri, September 22, 2006

Name: Hail in Missouri, September 22, 2006
Start: 2006-09-22T15:00
End: 2006-09-22T15:00
Location: Missouri

September 22, 2006 · 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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Wind
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Heat and drought
Cold
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 Sep 22, 2:30 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 2:30 PM CST, 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
330 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

...TORNADO WATCH 787 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM...

.DISCUSSION...

SEVERE AND POTENTIALLY TORNADIC STORMS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF BULGING
DRYLINE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...IN VERY UNSTABLE AND STRONG SHEARED
AIRMASS EAST OF HIGHWAY 65. DATA FROM 16Z KSGF SOUNDING SHOWED LOW
LEVEL CAP ERODED BY 11 AM WITH 3600+ J/KG CAPE AND 0-3KM STORM
RELATIVE HELICITIES OVER 350 M2/S2. BY 230 PM MOST OF THE STORMS
WERE EXITING THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE WARNING AREA.

WITH DEWPOINT TEMPS STILL HOVERING IN THE LOWER/MID 60S ALONG AND
EAST OF A JOPLIN TO VERSAILLES LINE...AND UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE
STILL OUT TO OUR WEST...DO NOT THINK WE ARE TOTALLY IN THE CLEAR
JUST YET. HOWEVER...TORNADO THREAT HAS DECREASED SOMEWHAT WITH
VEERING LOW LEVEL WINDS AND SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR.

SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)...

WILL MAINTAIN THUNDERSTORM CHANCES IN THE FORECAST WITH HIGHEST
CHANCES OVER THE EAST FOR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. EXPECT TO SEE
ADDITIONAL STORMS DEVELOP AHEAD OF MAIN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE
FOUR CORNERS REGION THROUGH THE EVENING AND EARLY MORNING. AS MAIN
TROUGH MOVES THROUGH THE AREA WITH SURFACE COLD FRONT...YET ANOTHER
ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. EXPECT MAINLY A
STRAIGHT LINE WIND THREAT WITH THE LATER ROUNDS OF STORMS.

TERRY
&&

LONG TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT - THURSDAY)...
THIS PERIOD APPEARS TO BE QUIET IN THE WAKE OF OUR ONGOING STORM
SYSTEM.  COLD FRONT WILL SPREAD THROUGH A CANADIAN AIRMASS THAT WILL
SCOUR MOISTURE FROM THE DEEP SOUTH AND INTO THE GULF.  THIS WILL
LIMIT ANY POTENTIAL FOR ACTIVE WEATHER THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.  THERE
MAY BE A COUPLE OF WEAK DISTURBANCES MIGRATING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST
FLOW DURING THESE PERIODS...BUT WEAK LIFT AND LOW MOISTURE MAY ONLY
YIELD CLOUD COVER.

THE GFS SUGGESTS THAT A STRONGER WAVE COULD IMPACT THE REGION BY
WEDNESDAY.  MOISTURE WILL STILL BE LACKING HOWEVER BETTER LIFT WITH
THIS SYSTEM JUSTIFIES SOME CHANCE POPS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY.  FOLLOWED THE MEX POPS NUMBERS WITH THESE PERIODS.  FALL
LIKE TEMPERATURES WILL BE OBSERVED THROUGH THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK
WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S AND 80S...AND LOWS RANGING FROM THE 40S TO THE
MID 50S.

CRAMER
&&

.AVIATION...

FOR THE 18Z TAFS...WENT AHEAD AND LEFT VICINITY THUNDER FOR THE
FIRST FEW HOURS OF THE TAF AT KSGF WITH PERIODIC STORM REDEVELOPMENT
OVER EASTERN GREENE COUNTY. LATER THIS EVENING...CARRIED VICINITY
THUNDER AT BOTH AIRPORTS AS ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVES INTO THE REGION
AND INTERACTS WITH RESIDENT AIRMASS OVER THE AREA.

HAVE SHIFTED WINDS TO THE WEST TOWARD THE END OF THE PERIOD AS COLD
FRONT TRAVERSES THE AREA.

TERRY
&&

SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

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

WFO SGF

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 22, 12:00 PM CST, 3 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-231100-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
100 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

...PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION THIS AFTERNOON...
...TORNADIC STORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING POTENTIALLY LONG TRACK
  TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH...AND HAIL IN
  EXCESS OF GOLF BALL SIZE.

AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  ALL OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT.
  THE HIGHEST RISK AREA WILL BE EAST OF HIGHWAY 65 THROUGH 9 PM.

  DISCUSSION:

  STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST
  MISSOURI AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVING
  QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH.

  EAST OF HIGHWAY 65...ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS WILL BE MOST
  FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ALONG AND
  EAST OF AN OSAGE BEACH TO NEOSHO LINE.  LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
  BASEBALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH WILL ALSO
  ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.

  THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP OVER MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA
  AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE GREATEST HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE
  QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. AT THIS
  TIME...THE TORNADO THREAT APPEARS MINIMAL AFTER MIDNIGHT.

  HEAVY RAINFALL LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE
  ACROSS ALL OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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

  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN ON SATURDAY
  AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS EAST OF HIGHWAY 65 CAN EXPECT HAIL
  UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH. A TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

  HEAVY RAINFALL LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THROUGH MID EVENING
  ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEOSHO TO OSAGE BEACH. SPOTTERS AND
  EMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  SHOULD MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER
  EVENT CLOSELY.

&&

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

TERRY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 22, 1:13 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
213 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

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

0212 PM     HAIL             ROLLA                   37.95N 91.77W
09/22/2006  E0.88 INCH       PHELPS             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            AT THE ROLLA AIRPORT.

&&

HATCH

Local storm report, Sep 22, 1:29 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
229 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

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

0229 PM     TORNADO          2 E ST. JAMES           38.00N 91.58W
09/22/2006                   PHELPS             MO   PUBLIC

            ALONG INTERSTATE 44.

&&

HATCH

Local storm report, Sep 22, 1:32 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
232 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

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

0229 PM     TORNADO          2 E ST. JAMES           38.00N 91.58W
09/22/2006                   PHELPS             MO   PUBLIC

            UNCOMFIRMED REPORT,LOCATED ALONG INTERSTATE 44.

&&

HATCH

Local storm report, Sep 22, 2:06 PM CST, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
306 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

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

1220 PM     TORNADO          ST. JAMES               38.00N 91.61W
09/22/2006                   PHELPS             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO...NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES
            DOWN. CONSIDERALBE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
            BUILDINGS. SEMI TRUCK AND BUS OVERTURNED ON I 44 NEAR
            ST.JAMES.

&&

HATCH

Local storm report, Sep 22, 2:18 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
318 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

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

0220 PM     TORNADO          ST. JAMES               38.00N 91.61W
09/22/2006                   PHELPS             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO...NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES
            DOWN. CONSIDERALBE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
            BUILDINGS. SEMI TRUCK AND BUS OVERTURNED ON I 44 NEAR
            ST.JAMES.

&&

HATCH

Local storm report, Sep 22, 2:26 PM CST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
326 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

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

0220 PM     TORNADO          ST. JAMES               38.00N 91.61W
09/22/2006                   PHELPS             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO...NUMEROUS LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES
            DOWN. CONSIDERALBE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
            BUILDINGS. SEMI TRUCK AND BUS OVERTURNED ON I 44 NEAR
            ST.JAMES. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE REPORTED TO STRIP MALL IN
            TOWN AS WELL AS DAMAGE TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. NO
            INJURIES REPORTED AT THIS TIME TO ANY OF THE OCCUPANTS IN
            SCHOOL.

&&
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ADDED

HATCH

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Texas

When: September 22, 3:00 PM CST
Where: Texas County, 2 mi S of Houston
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: COOP STATION
Coordinates: 37.300, -91.967

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 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Missouri, September 2006

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: 5534748.