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NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 24, 5:08 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...AVIATION UPDATE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 608 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CHALLENGE FOR THIS FORECAST WILL BE WITH THE CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION CHANCES. NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED IN THE UPPER PATTERN RECENTLY WITH UPPER RIDGE ACROSS EASTERN CANADA AND LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHEAST U.S. KEEPING THINGS PRETTY BLOCKED UP. THIS HAS KEPT THE CENTRAL U.S. IN NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME WITH WEAK DISTURBANCES SETTING OFF NIGHTLY MCS ACTIVITY. MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AXIS CONTINUES TO BE PUSHED WESTWARD. MCS ACTIVITY OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI LAST NIGHT HAS SHIFTED FURTHER WEST INTO WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. CURRENT 850/SFC MOISTURE AXIS STRETCHES FROM LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO CENTRAL KANSAS WITH MCS ACTIVITY PUSHING EAST SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL KANSAS AT THIS HOUR. MCS SHOULD CONTINUE ON THIS PATH WITH MAJORITY OF THE PRECIPITATION OCCURRING TO THE WEST OF THE CWA THIS MORNING. EASTERN EDGES OF THE PRECIPITATION MAY AFFECT WESTERN CWA AND HAVE INCREASED POPS SLIGHTLY THERE TODAY. SVR WATCH WAS ISSUED AS OF THIS TYPING INCLUDING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE CWA. WOULD NOT EXPECT MUCH EASTWARD PROGRESSION INTO THE CWA WITH DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR PUSHING WESTWARD INTO THE CWA. MORNING HOURS WILL LIKELY HAVE PLENTY OF CLOUD COVER IN ASSOCIATION WITH MCS...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN SECTIONS...HOWEVER WILL PROBABLY SEE DECENT SUN BY THE AFTERNOON. COOLER AIR MASS WORKING IN FROM THE EAST WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES IN THE 70S THERE WITH LOW TO MID 80S POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WEST AND SOUTH. GFS/NAM SHOWING DIFFERENCES WITH SOLUTIONS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. GFS IS FURTHER NORTH WITH MCS DEVELOPMENT AND TAKES IT THROUGH THE CWA DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY...WHILE NAM KEEPS THINGS WELL TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. HAVE GONE WITH A BLEND OF THE TWO MODELS FOR NOW AND WILL PLAY THE WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH FEATURES TODAY AND LET THE UPCOMING FORECAST SHIFT DO SOME FINE TUNING. WITH THE BLEND...HAVE INCREASED POPS SLIGHTLY IN THE SOUTHWEST CWA AND KEPT THE NORTHEAST DRY. NAM BRINGS IN FRONTAL BOUNDARY ON THURSDAY WITH THE AID OF NORTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE DROPPING SOUTHEAST. AS PREVIOUS FORECASTER MENTIONED...IT APPEARS EASTERN CANADIAN RIDGE WILL BE SLOW TO BREAK DOWN AND WILL KEEP THE AREA IN NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME INTO THE EXTENDED PERIOD. WILL KEEP INHERITED FORECAST DRY FOR NOW BUT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THIS CHANGE AS THIS PERIOD GETS CLOSER AND HOPEFULLY MORE CLEAR. LINDENBERG && .AVIATION... INTRODUCED A PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORMS IN BOTH THE JOPLIN AND SPRINGFIELD TAFS FOR THIS MORNING. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE KANSAS FLINT HILLS CONTINUES TO PROGRESS EAST THIS MORNING AND WILL AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS SEVERAL KANSAS REPORTS HAVE SUGGESTED DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO THE SOUTHEAST PRIOR TO A COLD FRONT PASSING THROUGH THE REGION BY THURSDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME AS WELL. CRAMER && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MO...NONE. .KS...NONE. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 600 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-241800- 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- 600 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH...AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: AREAS SOUTHWEST OF A NEVADA TO MONETT LINE THIS MORNING. DISCUSSION: A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS PUSHING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING AND INTO EASTERN KANSAS. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING AFTER 7 AM. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE LINE OF STORMS WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS POSSIBLE. THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL TRACK SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI TODAY AND MAY HELP TO DEVELOP SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY AS WEAK DISTURBANCES WILL PUSH ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST. THIS WILL CONTINUE THE CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY WITH ADDITIONAL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING. && 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) LINDENBERG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 247 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 KSZ097-101-MOZ088-093>094-101>102-241500- CHEROKEE-CRAWFORD-BARRY-JASPER-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-NEWTON- 247 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2005 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 319 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN KANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS CHEROKEE... CRAWFORD... IN MISSOURI THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BARRY... JASPER... LAWRENCE... MCDONALD... NEWTON... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MONETT...CASSVILLE... BAXTER SPRINGS...COLUMBUS...PITTSBURG...ANDERSON...PINEVILLE... NEOSHO...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON...JOPLIN AND CARTHAGE. CRAMER
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:32 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several tree limbs.
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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: 5445698.