Hail — Clark, Missouri

2024-04-16 · near Clark City, Clark, Missouri

Event narrative

A trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail falling right now.

Wider weather episode

Eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois, and far northeast Missouri sat in the warm sector of an intense Spring storm system that brought widespread severe thunderstorms to the area during the afternoon and evening hours on April 16th. There were reports of hail, damaging winds, and two tornadoes. One of the tornadoes was on the ground for 42 miles across parts of Lee, Henry, Des Moines and Louisa Counties and was rated EF-2 with maximum winds of 130 MPH.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1172029. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.