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National Weather Service warns of possible tornadoes and flash flooding in southern Missouri tonight (AUDIO)

May 22, 2019 By Brian Hauswirth

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Springfield says severe weather is possible again late Wednesday afternoon and tonight across parts of the Ozarks, including Joplin and Nevada.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Springfield says tornadoes, tennis ball-sized hail and flooding are possible tonight in the Ozarks (map courtesy of NWS Springfield Twitter page)

NWS Springfield meteorologist Cory Rothstein tells Missourinet all modes of severe weather are possible, including tornadoes.

“Primarily looking at some supercell thunderstorms developing this afternoon and evening, mainly along and northwest of a line from Neosho to Osage Beach,” Rothstein says.

He says Lamar and Stockton are also included in the “moderate” category, which is the fourth-highest of five categories.

“We’re looking at a strong tornado to even possible with these supercells, large hail up to the size of tennis balls and damaging wind gusts to 70 miles per hour,” says Rothstein.

The NWS also warns that significant flash flooding is possible tonight in the Ozarks. They remind you that 12 inches of water can sweep a car off the road.

Meanwhile, NWS survey crews have confirmed that a tornado struck southwest Missouri’s Marshfield on Tuesday. Mr. Rothstein says there were no injuries in the Marshfield tornado.

“That one was an EF-1 tornado that was confirmed,” Rothstein says. “There was damage to a roof on a house and then multiple trees as well.”

The NWS says the Marshfield tornado began two miles west of Mansfield and was on the ground for 23 minutes on Tuesday, from 3:17 to 3:40 p.m. Its peak winds were 110 miles per hour.

The tornado’s path length was almost 22 miles.

The NWS is also confirming this was the tornado that struck the Town and Country Supermarket in Hartville, the town’s only grocery store.

The supermarket’s storefront has collapsed and the back of the store has blown in. The ceiling has also fallen in, and store owners have been working to remove debris.

There was no deaths nor serious injuries reported in any of Tuesday’s tornadoes or storms in southwest Missouri.

Click here to listen to Brian Hauswirth’s full interview with National Weather Service (NWS) Springfield meteorologist Cory Rothstein, which was recorded on May 22, 2019:

UPDATE: Weather Service finds evidence of ten tornadoes in Missouri from storms Monday

May 21, 2013 By Mike Lear

Update 05/22/2013 3:50pm: Evidence of a tenth tornado during Monday night’s storms has been found 3 miles east of Shell Knob in Southwest Missouri. The Weather Service believes that tornado touched down at about 7:50 Monday night. It uprooted and damaged trees in a 1.4 mile damage path 200 yards wide. Winds reached about 110 miles per hour, making it an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Update 05/22/2013 2:00pm: The National Weather Service has found evidence of another EF-1 tornado that touched down Monday at about 8:05, about 3 miles north-northwest of Reeds Spring in Southwest Missouri. The storm uprooted trees in a damage path 100 yards wide and 1.4 miles long. Winds reached about 90 miles per hour.

Another EF-0 tornado touched down 2 miles north of Reeds Spring causing some tree damage. Its winds ranged from 80 to 85 miles per hour.

A survey team has also been sent to the Shell Knob area to investigate damage there.

UPDATE 05/22/2013 noon: The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado did touchdown southwest of Hannibal Monday night. That tornado uprooted and snapped trees and tore the tin roofing off of a barn as it passed about a mile south of Hannibal Regional Medical Center, before dissipating. The tornado’s winds reached about 90 miles per hour, making it an EF-1.

The Weather Service says the same storm caused considerable wind damage in Hannibal. A portion of the roof on a building at Hannibal-LaGrange College was torn off and a brick building in downtown Hannibal had a wall collapse and part of its roof torn off. Another building on the south side of Hannibal also had part of its roof torn off, as well as other tree damage and broken windows.

Another EF-1 tornado crossed over from Oklahoma into Missouri Monday afternoon. The tornado came within about a half-mile from Seneca, snapping and uprooting trees in a damage path 600 yards wide and less than a mile into Missouri. Its wind speeds reached between 95 and 100 mph.

The Weather Service says these reports are not final and surveys do continue.

UPDATE: The Weather Service has confirmed a third, EF-1 tornado touchdown 7 miles west of Lamar. The storm destroyed a couple of outbuildings and damged trees along a damage path nearly 7 miles long and up to 100 yards wide. Wind speeds are estimated to have reached 95 miles per hour.

National Weather Service assessment teams have confirmed five tornado touchdowns in Missouri from storms yesterday.

The National Weather Service’s Pleasant Hill (Kansas City) office tweeted this picture, saying this damage is from a “likely EF-1 tornado” in Johnson and Pettis Counties. Its assessment team has since confirmed an EF-1 tornado did touch down in those areas.

Tornadoes with winds topping out at between 90 and 100 miles per hour caused damage near Knob Noster in western Missouri and near Carthage in southwest Missouri. Trees were uprooted, power lines were downed and outbuildings destroyed near Carthage. Those tornadoes rate EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

Tornadoes producing winds of about 85 miles per hour touched down in southwest Missouri near Lockwood, where a grocery store roof was damaged, trees were uprooted and a car port was thrown, and in the Orleans Trail public use area near Stockton, damaging a barn and several trees. Another weak tornado left a 100-yard wide path of minor damage near Gravois Mills in central Missouri, uprooting trees and causing minor structural damage. Those tornadoes rate EF-0.

An assessment team has determined that damage in Hannibal was not caused by a tornado. Instead, it says it found evidence of straight line winds gusting an estimated 80 to 100 miles an hour.