1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 May 30, 8:43 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 943 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 .UPDATE... OK...SO ON TO PLAN B. REGIONAL RADAR MOSAIC SHOWS A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN CONVECTION OVER THE PAST HOUR AROUND THE MCV OVER NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA. GIVEN THE VERY WEAK SHEAR BETWEEN 850-300MB...RENEWED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT NEAR THE CENTER...AND SEMI-BAROTROPIC AIRMASS IN PLACE ITS LOOKING QUITE LIKELY THAT THE MCV WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT. WARM CORE SYSTEMS SUCH AS MCVS AND TROPICAL LOWS HAVE A TENDENCY TO LIGHT UP WITH CONVECTION NEAR THE CENTER AT NIGHT AND AM BECOMING INCREASINGLY CONCERNED THAT THIS COULD BECOME THE CASE WITH THE MCV OVER NE OK TONIGHT. GIVEN THE EXTREMELY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR VERY HIGH PRECIPITATION EFFICIENCIES WITH CONVECTION OVERNIGHT AND THE RECENT INCREASE IN CONVECTION NEAR THE CENTER OF THE MCV AND THE FACT THE MCV SHOULD MOVE VERY LITTLE TONIGHT HAVE OPTED TO GO WITH A SHORT FUSE FFA FOR OUR FAR SOUTHWEST COUNTIES. FFA IS OUT AND UPDATED GRIDS AND DERIVED PRODUCTS WILL FOLLOW SHORTLY. IZZI && .UPDATE...//ISSUED AT 848 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006// SCATTERED CONVECTION IS TRYING TO DEVELOP OVER SE KS ALONG THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ORIGINATING FROM THE CONVECTION THAT SOAKED THE KANSAS TURNPIKE CORRIDOR A FEW HOURS AGO. OUTFLOW SHOULD ENCOUNTER PROGRESSIVELY LESS UNSTABLE AIRMASS AS IT PROPAGATES EASTWARD. IN ADDITION...SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION IS STILL BUBBLING UP AROUND MCV THAT IS CENTERED NEAR THE AR/OK/MO BORDER. HARD TO GET A GOOD HANDLE ON HOW QUICKLY CONVECTION WILL FADE THIS EVENING...IN THEORY THE PROGRESSIVELY LESS UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND CONTINUED DIURNAL COOLING SHOULD LEAD TO A GRADUAL DEMISE IN THE CONVECTION...HOWEVER IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE COULD BE A RESURGENCE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS THE OUTFLOW ENCOUNTERS THE MCV AND ITS ASSOCIATED MID LEVEL ASCENT. HAD ALREADY UPDATED GRIDS TO NUDGE POPS UPWARD OVER THE WESTERN CWA. THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE RATHER PROLIFIC RAIN PRODUCERS (AS HAS BEEN THE CASE TO OUR WEST ALREADY) TONIGHT GIVEN THE HIGH SUB-CLOUD LAYER RH...SEASONABLY HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES...AND DEEP WARM CLOUD LAYER. HARD TO RULE OUT AN ISOLATED FLASH FLOOD THREAT BEFORE CONVECTION WANES. IZZI && .DISCUSSION...//ISSUED AT 326 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006// WEAK UPPER VORT CENTER OVER EASTERN OK/WEST CENTRAL AR AND ANOTHER OVER THE SW CORNER OF MO HAVE BEEN SLOWLY MOVING NORTH TODAY. CLOUD COVER HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES AND RESULTANT INSTABILITY IN CHECK SO FAR TODAY. WEAK DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT NORTHEAST OF THE VORT CENTER AND ASSOCIATED LIFT HAS RESULTED IN WEAK CONVECTIVE SHOWERS/ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN MO. SOME POCKETS OF SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY HAVE MANAGED TO DEVELOP OVER SE KS AND ALONG THE AR BORDER...SO THESE AREAS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS CONVECTION CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH FROM ARKANSAS. CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED EAST OF THE AREA OVER THE LOWER OH VLY WHERE A MORE SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE WAS EVIDENT IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND AIRCRAFT AND PROFILER WINDS. TO THE WEST OVER KS...STRONG CONVECTION HAS ALSO DEVELOPED ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT WHERE BETTER INSTABILITY AND THE APPROACH OF STRONGER SHORTWAVE WAS EMBEDDED IN THE SW-LY 500 MB FLOW. WITH THE CHAOTIC UPPER FLOW STILL TRAPPED BELOW THE MAIN BELT OF WESTERLIES AND THE VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE IN PLACE...PWATS OF 1.41 ON THE 12Z KSGF SOUNDING...WILL STILL CARRY CHANCE POPS THROUGH TONIGHT...BUT MECHANISMS FOR FOCUSED CONVECTION ARE LIMITED TO THE WEAK UPPER FEATURES WHICH WILL AFFECT MAINLY SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY EVENING. MAY SEE SOME LIMITED STRONGER PULSE TYPE CONVECTION DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON WHERE THE UPPER FEATURES AND STRONGER INSTABILITY COME TOGETHER. CORFIDI VECTORS INDICATE THAT CONVECTION WAY OUT TO OUR WEST MAY MAKE SLOW PROGRESS INTO EASTERN KS EARLY TONIGHT...AND I DO HAVE SOMEWHAT HIGHER POPS IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...BUT A QUICK LOOK AT MIDLEVEL WIND PROGS AND LOW LEVEL FLOW...IT LOOKS LIKE A BIG PUSH TO THE EAST...UNLESS A SIGNIFICANT COLD POOL DEVELOPS...IS NOT LIKELY. WITH THE SLOW APPROACH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY NOW LOCATED TO OUR NORTHWEST ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY...HAVE MAINTAINED HIGH END CHANCE OR LIKELY POPS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. KEPT PERIODS PAST THURSDAY DRY. GFS AND ECMWF HAVE SOME DIFFERENCES EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT THE GENERAL TREND OF A BUILDING UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS LOOKS LIKE THE WAY TO GO. FRIDAY-SATURDAY LOOK CLOSE TO NORMAL TEMPERATUREWISE...BUT WITH THE BUILDING RIDGE HAVE BUMPED UP TEMPERATURES EARLY NEXT WEEK. DSA && .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...CONDITIONS WILL PREDOMINANTLY REMAIN VFR AT BOTH TERMINAL LOCATIONS. A WEAK MCV NEAR BENTONVILLE AR IS LIFTING SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD THIS EVENING AND HAS KICKED OFF SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS (AND A TSRA OR TWO) OVER SW MO. THESE SHOWERS WILL LIKELY DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET BUT STILL COULD SEE A SHOWER COME WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF SGF DURING THE MID/LATE EVENING IF THEY MAINTAIN THEMSELVES. ASSUMING AT THIS TIME THAT FAIRLY EXPANSIVE MID/UPPER LEVEL CLOUD COVER WILL ONCE AGAIN LIMIT POTENTIAL FOR ANY LIGHT FOG LATE TONIGHT SO DID NOT INCLUDE ANY VSBY REDUCTIONS FOR EITHER TERMINAL. IF SKIES APPEAR AS THOUGH THEY WILL CLEAR OUT FOR ANY APPRECIABLE AMOUNT OF TIME THEN WILL AMEND TAFS TO INTRODUCE SOME MVFR FOG LATE TONIGHT. FINALLY WITH WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHING THE REGION THERE WILL PROBABLY BE AN INCREASE IN SHRA/TSRA COVERAGE WEDNESDAY HOWEVER TIMING IS DIFFICULT AT BEST TO PINPOINT THIS FAR OUT SO WENT WITH A LONG PROB30 GROUP UNTIL TIMING CAN BE FINED TUNED BETTER. IZZI && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. WFO SGF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 951 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-311100- 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- 951 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...PARTICULARLY WEST OF A BRANSON TO WARSAW MISSOURI LINE. DUE TO THE VERY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...VERY LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY OVER FAR SOUTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A WARM AND MOIST AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE. A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION WILL BRING A SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY. .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) DSA/IZZI/IZZI
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:50 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy thunderstorms caused city streets in Neosho to become impassable to motorists.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, May 2006
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: 5509141.