A strong thunderstorm produced a destructive lightning strike which hit a house and completely burned it down.
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A strong thunderstorm produced a destructive lightning strike which hit a house and completely burned it down.
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 Mar 25, 2:31 AM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 331 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2011 .DISCUSSION... A MESSY FORECAST PERIOD WITH SEVERAL CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION OCCURRING THROUGH THIS FORECAST PACKAGE AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES PASS THROUGH THE REGION. THESE DISTURBANCES WILL HELP TO KEEP BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE PERIOD...WITH A CHANCE FOR A WINTRY MIX AT TIMES AS NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED DURING SEVERAL NIGHTS IN THIS PACKAGE. CURRENTLY...PRECIPITATION HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND AN AREA OF ISENTROPIC LIFT SPREADING INTO THE AREA. SOME ELEVATED INSTABILITY HAS SPREAD NORTH INTO PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI THIS MORNING. AS A RESULT SOME EMBEDDED ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDER IS OCCURRING WITHIN THE SHOWER ACTIVITY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS ACTIVITY...BUT WITH FAIRLY LOW FREEZING HEIGHTS SOME SMALL HAIL AND NON SEVERE GUSTY WINDS MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THIS THUNDERSTORMS. THE ELEVATED INSTABILITY SHOULD DECREASE AS THE MORNING HOURS WEARS ON...LIMITING THE THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE THROUGH THE MORNING. TEMPERATURES ARE CURRENTLY IN THE MIDDLE TO LOWER 30S ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WARMER TEMPERATURES IN THE MID LEVELS ARE ADVECTING NORTH...HOWEVER THERE WILL BE A WINDOW THIS MORNING WHERE A MIX OF SNOW AND RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE BEFORE ALL THE PRECIPITATION TURNS OVER TO RAIN BY THE MID TO LATE MORNING HOURS. WITH CONVECTIVE ELEMENTS WITH ANY THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION PUSHING ACROSS THE AREA...SOME PERIODS OF SLEET MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES AT THE SURFACE WILL REMAIN ABOVE FREEZING TODAY WITH HIGHS WARMING INTO THE 40S...SO NO ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED. THE COVERAGE IN PRECIPITATION SHOULD GENERALLY DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER ISOLATED TO SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. PRECIPITATION CHANCES ARE AGAIN EXPECTED TO BEGIN TO INCREASE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACH THE REGION. THE AREA WILL REMAIN IN THE COOL SECTOR OF THIS SYSTEM AND MIX OF SNOW AND RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY ON SATURDAY WITH THE PRECIPITATION EXPECTED TO TURN OVER TO ALL SNOW SATURDAY EVENING INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AS COLDER TEMPERATURES IN THE MID LEVELS SPREAD INTO THE AREA. A DUSTING OF SNOW MAYBE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI SATURDAY EVENING AND NIGHT BEFORE THE SNOW TAPERS OFF OVERNIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI LATE TONIGHT INTO THE DAY ON SATURDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY REMAIN IN THE 40S TO THE LOWER 50S THIS WEEKEND THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. OVERNIGHT LOWS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK MAY BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW THE FREEZING MARK EACH NIGHT. THERE WILL BE INCREASED CLOUD COVER OVER THE AREA DURING THIS TIME EACH NIGHT...WHICH MAY PREVENT TEMPERATURES FROM COMPLETELY FALLING OFF...BUT FREEZE/FROST HEADLINES MAY BE NEEDED DURING THIS TIME. SEVERAL MORE CHANCES FOR RAIN AND OR A RAIN SNOW MIX WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. RAIN WILL GENERALLY BE POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY WITH A MIX OVER NIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...AS BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES CONTINUE. WISE && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1149 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011/ FOR THE 25/0600Z KSGF/KJLN/KBBG AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND WDLY SCT THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT EAST INTO SOUTHERN MO OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS AHEAD OF DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST FROM THE PLAINS. THE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE FAIRLY ELEVATED SO NOT GOING TO LOW ON CEILINGS INITIALLY. CEILINGS WILL GRADUALLY LOWER DURING THE DAY FRIDAY WITH SATURATING LOWER LEVELS...ESPECIALLY AS WINDS BACK TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST LATE IN THE TAF PERIOD WITH COOLING LOW LEVEL TEMPERATURES. DSA && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 824 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-260130- 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- 824 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER RISK LEVEL IS...LIMITED. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED HAIL RISK. DISCUSSION... A DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST FROM THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO MUCH OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS OVERNIGHT AFTER 10 PM. BECAUSE OF LOW FREEZING LEVELS AND INCREASING LIFT AHEAD OF THE DISTURBANCE...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GENERALLY PENNY SIZED OR SMALLER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A FEW ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EARLY FRIDAY. ADDITIONAL ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN PLACE OVER THE REGION INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE POTENTIAL FOR BELOW FREEZING NIGHTTIME AND EARLY MORNING TEMPERATURES WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .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
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:02 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
KY3-TV reported a home completely destroyed by fire likely caused by a lightning strike.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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