Isolated severe storms moved across the region. Numerous large hail and damaging winds were reported.
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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.
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
Isolated severe storms moved across the region. Numerous large hail and damaging winds were reported.
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 Oct 19, 6:12 PM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...Updated Aviation National Weather Service Saint Louis MO 712 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016 .SHORT TERM... (Through Late Thursday Afternoon) Issued at 324 PM CDT Wed Oct 19 2016 (Tonight) Focus tonight will be on convective trends. Believe the most focused and widespread area on convection will continue to be near the quasi- stationary 850-hPa warm front through the early overnight hours tonight. Have therefore shifted highest PoPs and heaviest QPF axis to the north more toward the I-44 corridor in MO. This convection should remain elevated in nature with the sfc boundary across the far southern CWA. With the elevated convection...large hail is the primary threat. Further to the south across southeast Missouri and far southwest Illinois...wind gusts in addition to large hail are both threats as convection along/south of the sfc front will likely be more surface based. Severe threat should wane by late evening as instability...both elevated and sfc-based...begins to fade to the southeast of the area. Maintained locally heavy rainfall mention just shifted the axis a bit further to the north tied to the highest PoPs. It has been dry this month and FFG values are high so it will take quite a bit of rain over a short period of time. Concern would be in training of convection which certainly could occur due to the quasi-stationary low-level baroclinic zone. Temperatures will be cooler tonight compared to the last several nights but still a bit above normal. Lows in the 50s for most areas are expected. (Thursday) Bulk of precipitation should have exited the CWA by Thursday morning but have schc-chc PoPs for showers into early afternoon for far southern and eastern sections of the CWA. Main story will be the much more fall-like look and feel to the day on Thursday. High temperatures are only expected to be in the low 60s across the area due to lingering cloud cover and strong CAA at low levels...certainly a big change from the upper 80s to low 90s of just a couple of days ago. Gosselin .LONG TERM... (Thursday Night through Next Wednesday) Issued at 324 PM CDT Wed Oct 19 2016 Any lingering precip will have moved out of the area as surface low moves east Thursday. Strong surface ridge builds eastward as low and cold front move out shifting winds to the northwest. The northwest flow as well as clearing behind the front will lead to cooler temps Thurs night. Temps to remain slightly below normal through Sat morning. There will be a slight warming trend as surface ridge progress furthr to the east and shifts wind become southerly. a weak cold front will move through the area Sun into Monday but this is expected to bring no precip and cold temps should stay north of the forecast area. The next chance of precip will be Wed as surface low moves in from the western plains. Walsh && .AVIATION... (For the 00z TAFs through 00z Thursday Evening) Issued at 707 PM CDT Wed Oct 19 2016 Showers and thunderstorms continue to develop and track northeast across forecast area, mainly affecting tafs along I-70 corridor through about 03z. Then taper off to showers through the overnight hours before ending around 08z-09z Thursday timeframe. Otherwise, VFR conditions outside of storms at KUIN and KCOU. Metro area tafs to see MVFR conditions linger through 13z-14z Thursday before lifting to VFR. As for winds, northeast winds to back to the north and remain northerly through rest of forecast period. SPECIFICS FOR KSTL: Showers and thunderstorms continue to develop and track northeast across metro area through about 03z Thursday. Then taper off to showers through the overnight hours before ending around 08z-09z Thursday timeframe. Otherwise, will see MVFR conditions linger through 13z-14z Thursday before lifting to VFR. As for winds, northeast winds to back to the north around 06z Thursday and remain northerly through rest of forecast period. Byrd && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...None. IL...None. && WFO LSX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO 347 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-201200- GREENE IL-MACOUPIN IL-MONTGOMERY IL-BOND IL-FAYETTE IL-CLINTON IL- MARION IL-WASHINGTON IL-RANDOLPH IL-ADAMS IL-BROWN IL-PIKE IL- CALHOUN IL-JERSEY IL-MADISON IL-SAINT CLAIR IL-MONROE IL-KNOX MO- LEWIS MO-SHELBY MO-MARION MO-MONROE MO-RALLS MO-PIKE MO-BOONE MO- AUDRAIN MO-MONITEAU MO-COLE MO-OSAGE MO-CALLAWAY MO-MONTGOMERY MO- LINCOLN MO-GASCONADE MO-WARREN MO-SAINT CHARLES MO-FRANKLIN MO- SAINT LOUIS MO-SAINT LOUIS CITY MO-JEFFERSON MO-CRAWFORD MO- WASHINGTON MO-SAINT FRANCOIS MO-SAINTE GENEVIEVE MO-IRON MO- MADISON MO-REYNOLDS MO- 347 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS ARE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER...IF OBSERVED...TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. WALSH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
551 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1136 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 N PERSHING 38.60N 91.62W
10/19/2016 M1.25 INCH GASCONADE MO TRAINED SPOTTER
RAINFALL SO FAR TODAY.
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BYRDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
627 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0626 PM HAIL 4 NW FREDERICKTOWN 37.61N 90.35W
10/19/2016 E1.00 INCH MADISON MO TRAINED SPOTTER
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MILLERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
633 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0631 PM HAIL BIXBY 37.67N 91.08W
10/19/2016 E0.50 INCH IRON MO PUBLIC
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MILLERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
640 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0623 PM HAIL JUNCTION CITY 37.57N 90.29W
10/19/2016 M1.75 INCH MADISON MO TRAINED SPOTTER
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MILLERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
647 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0612 PM HAIL 5 W FREDERICKTOWN 37.56N 90.39W
10/19/2016 E1.00 INCH MADISON MO PUBLIC
NEAR OAK GROVE AND THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 72 AND HWY
D...RELAYED VIA THE COUNTY SHERRIFF
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MILLERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
655 PM CDT WED OCT 19 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0632 PM HAIL AUXVASSE 39.02N 91.89W
10/19/2016 E0.50 INCH CALLAWAY MO PUBLIC
FACEBOOK REPORT
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MILLERThe Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:08 UTC.
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town.
Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were closed including Bluff Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, October 2016
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: 665742, 665750, 665754, 665743.