2 drought, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 20, 11:26 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1126 PM CST TUE DEC 20 2005 .DISCUSSION... THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS HAVE BEEN SOCKED IN BY STRATUS COVER ALL DAY LONG IN RESPONSE TO A POSITIVELY TILTED SHORTWAVE TROUGH SWINGING ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI. VISIBLE SATELLITE TRENDS INDICATE THE CLEARING LINE HAS STALLED...AND LITTLE MOVEMENT IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY DEPICTS A BUILDING RIDGE ACROSS THE WESTERN UNITED STATES...AS TWO CYCLONES CHURN OFF THE PACIFIC COAST. SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THRU THURS NIGHT)... FORECAST CONCERN FOR TODAY INVOLVED DETERIORATING CONDITIONS ACROSS THE OZARKS. THROUGHOUT THE DAY...HAZE FORMED OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND CEILINGS DROPPED TO NEAR 1KFT. ETA 12 AND BUFKIT SOUNDINGS AND RH PLOTS...AS WELL AS CURRENT SATELLITE TRENDS...INDICATE THE STRATUS DECK AND ASSOCIATED POOL OF MOISTURE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE FAST. WARM AIR ADVECTION AND SLIGHT ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO FEED THE CURRENT CONDITIONS WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. THEREFORE...HAVE INCLUDED PATCHY FREEZING FOG INTO THE GRIDS FROM 06 TO 12Z. BEST THOUGHTS AT THIS TIME ARE THAT THE CLOUD COVER WILL FINALLY BEGIN TO PUSH OUT OF THE AREA BY LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON ON WEDNESDAY. GIVEN THE STRATUS SITUATION TONIGHT AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY TOMORROW...NUDGED MIN TEMPS SLIGHTLY UPWARD TONIGHT AND HIGH TEMPS FOR WED DOWNWARD. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM PERIOD...A FEW UPPER LEVEL RIPPLES EMBEDDED IN NORTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA...BUT THE REGION LOOKS TO BE TOO DRY FOR PRECIP. ALSO DECIDED TO TREND DAYTIME MAX TEMPS FOR THURS DOWNWARD A DEGREE OR TWO...AS THE LOW LEVEL WARM AIR ADVECTION MIGHT NOT BE QUITE AS STRONG AS PREVIOUSLY PROGGED. SCHULTZ LONG TERM (FRIDAY THRU TUESDAY)... NO PLANS TO CHANGE COURSE WITH THE EXTENDED GRIDS THIS MORNING. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS REMAIN IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT ON THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN AS A WHOLE...HOWEVER IT APPEARS AS THOUGH OUR CWA WILL BE ON THE CUSP OF A WAVERING BAROCLINIC ZONE AS SHORTWAVES DROP DOWN THE BACKSIDE OF THE MEAN EASTERN LONGWAVE TROUGH AT ABOUT 2 DAY INTERVALS. SHOTS OF WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD OF EACH WAVE WILL SEND TEMPS ABOVE AVERAGE FOLLOWED BY COOL DOWNS TO NEAR/SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE IN THEIR WAKE. TIMING OF THE INDIVIDUAL WAVES DOES VARY SOME BY MODEL AND THAT LEADS TO UNCERTAINTY IN TEMPERATURE FORECASTS. HAVE TRENDED TEMPS DOWN SOME OVER THE WEEKEND...BUT STILL WELL ABOVE MEX GUIDANCE AS THE GFS AND ITS ENSEMBLES ARE A BIT OF A WEST OUTLIER. IF ECMWF VERIFIES THEN SATURDAY WOULD BE THE COLDEST DAY FOLLOWED BY A BIG WARM UP SUNDAY...BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW SO A BLENDED SOLUTION SEEMS TO BE THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION AT THIS TIME. HAVE KEPT POPS ON THE LOWER END OF THINGS AS THE MAJORITY OF THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE KEEPING THE MAIN STORM TRACK NORTHEAST OF OUR CWA...WHICH IS NOT A FAVORABLE TRACK FOR A NW FLOW SYSTEM TO PRODUCE MEASURABLE PRECIP THIS TIME OF YEAR. HAVING SAID THAT...THE GFS TREND HAS BEEN TOWARD A MORE WESTWARD AND VIGOROUS STORM TRACK OVER THE WEEKEND WHICH...IF IT PANNED OUT...WOULD BE A WETTER (AND WHO KNOWS MAYBE WHITER SCENARIO) FOR US. GIVEN THAT THE GFS ISNT PLAYING NICELY WITH THE OTHER MEDIUM RANGE MODEL DECIDED NOT GOING TO LEND TOO MUCH WEIGHT TO ITS SOLUTION YET. SOMETHING FOR THOSE DREAMING OF A WHITE SUNDAY TO HANG THEIR HAT I SUPPOSE... IZZI && .AVIATION... FOR THE 06Z KSGF/KJLN TAFS...STRATUS OVER THE REGION CONTINUES TO PRODUCE GENERALLY MVFR OR VFR CEILINGS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE OZARKS INCLUDING THE KSGF TERMINAL. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS TRAPPED UNDER WHAT WILL BE A STRENGTHENING INVERSION DUE TO SUBSIDENCE OVERNIGHT IN THE WAKE OF THE PASSAGE OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH. WILL GENERALLY GO WITH PERSISTENCE IN THE FIRST FEW HOURS OF THE FORECAST...WITH CONDITIONAL CLIMATOLOGY TOWARD MORNING WHICH WOULD LOWER CEILINGS AND VISIBILITY SLIGHTLY. STRATUS MAY BECOME QUITE THIN LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF I-44. IN ANY AREAS THAT CAN CLEAR...RADIATIONAL COOLING WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FOG...SO NEXT SHIFT WILL NEED TO WATCH CLOUD TRENDS CLOSELY. DSA && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MO...NONE. .KS...NONE. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1240 PM CST TUE DEC 20 2005 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-211845- 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- 1240 PM CST TUE DEC 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && 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) SCHULTZ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought developed in far southwest Missouri resulting in very dry soil conditions and low river levels. Many rivers, streams and creeks were running well below normal with some near or at record low levels. Small ponds and stock ponds were well below normal.
Severe drought developed in far southwest Missouri resulting in very dry soil conditions and low river levels. Many rivers, streams and creeks were running well below normal with some near or at record low levels. Small ponds and stock ponds were well below normal.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, December 2005
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: 5482536, 5482537.