Severe weather is expected across all of east central and northwest Missouri on Monday. Mark Fuchs with the National Weather Service in St. Louis says all threats of severe weather are on the table.
“And those storms in the afternoon will have the potential to have all hazards—very large hail, strong wind gusts and then some tornadoes. Some of those tornadoes could potentially be strong, especially east of that Highway 63 corridor as you go into further east Missouri. Tornadoes, significant large tornadoes. We’re looking at the potential of large to very large hail and damaging straight line winds. The one thing we’re not as concerned about, but is still a possibility is actually, is flooding,” he told Missourinet.
The second round of severe weather follows severe storms sweeping through parts of Missouri on Sunday night. The weekend triggered multiple tornado warnings and leaving scattered power outages across central and southwestern portions of the state.
Ben Price, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Springfield, said many of the strongest storms developed as supercells and produced large hail and damaging winds.
“We got a lot of supercells and reports of hail up to tennis ball size and a lot of wind gusts too that knocked out some power in some towns across central Missouri,” Price said. “And there are a few tornado warnings out there, but I’m sure the exact number of confirmed tornadoes … will be determined in the coming days.”
Power outages were reported in Camdenton and Pulaski counties in south-central Missouri, near the Lake of the Ozarks and Fort Leonard Wood, as well as Benton County in west-central Missouri.
The storms also prompted several radar-indicated tornado warnings in southwest Missouri, including one that was classified as “considerable,”
“That included cities like Joplin, Carthage and Webb City for a strong tornado radar signature that was coming out of Kansas,” Price said. “Surveys will confirm whether there were tornadoes in southwest Missouri or not.”
Price urged residents to stay weather-aware by using multiple methods to receive warnings and keeping up with the latest forecasts through the National Weather Service website and social media.
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