Dry conditions and strong winds helped fuel brush fires which completely destroyed one house near Lebanon.
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Dry conditions and strong winds helped fuel brush fires which completely destroyed one house near Lebanon.
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 Jan 9, 11:09 AM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1109 AM CST MON JAN 9 2012 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... IT WAS A CLEAR AND COLD NIGHT OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THE MISSOURI OZARKS. EARLY MORNING TEMPERATURES WERE WELL INTO THE 20S...WHILE NORTHEAST BREEZES PERSISTED. THIS QUIET AND CHILLY WEATHER WAS ONGOING IN RESPONSE TO AN EXPANSIVE AREA OF SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE NATIONS MID SECTION. FOR TODAY...THIS AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD CONTINUE TO CONTROL THE SENSIBLE WEATHER. IT'S GOING TO BE A PRETTY NICE DAY OUT...WITH FULL SUNSHINE AND HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE...MAKING CONDITIONS FABULOUS FOR A ROUND OF GOLF. ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO PRECIPITATION CHANCES TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. A STORM SYSTEM THAT CAN BE VIEWED ON THE WATER VAPOR...WAS POSITIONED OVER EL PASO TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS FEATURE IS FORECASTED TO TRACK ALONG THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA TUESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THIS STORM TRACK WOULD CAUSE A SHIELD OF RAIN TO DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF ARKANSAS...POSSIBLY SPREADING INTO FAR SOUTHERN MISSOURI TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THE ECMWF AND THE GFS ARE IN BETTER AGREEMENT WITH LOW AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 60. THEREFORE WE HAVE INCLUDED THE HIGHER PERCENTAGES OF MEASURABLE RAINFALL IN THESE AREAS. LOCATIONS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44 COULD REMAIN DRY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. FOLLOWING THIS EPISODE OF LIGHT RAIN FOR FAR SOUTHERN MISSOURI...A CANADIAN AIRMASS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION...CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO PLUMMET INTO THE LOWER 20S AND TEENS BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS. AFTERNOON HIGHS THURSDAY WILL STRUGGLE TO WARM OUT OF THE LOWER 30S IN MOST LOCATIONS...WHILE CLEARING SKIES ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SHOULD WARM AFTERNOON READINGS BACK INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S. QUIET WEATHER AND SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REST OF THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SUGGEST THAT THE UPPER FLOW WILL RETURN TO A HIGH ZONAL STRUCTURE TOWARD THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WORK WEEK. THERE COULD BE A SHORTWAVE OR TWO THAT PASSES OVER THE REGION...POTENTIALLY GIVING US A QUICK ROUND OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION. HOWEVER...TRYING TO TIME SOMETHING LIKE A PROGRESSIVE SHORTWAVE 7-10 DAYS OUT IS TOO CHALLENGING...AND NOT WARRANTED IN MENTIONING IN THE OFFICIAL FORECAST JUST YET. ONE ITEM THAT WE DO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN...IS THAT IT APPEARS AS THOUGH ARCTIC AIR WILL SEEP INTO SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA AND POSSIBLY THE NORTHERN PLAINS / GREAT LAKES REGION BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS OF THIS ARCTIC AIR MAKING IT INTO THE OZARKS AT THIS TIME. THEREFORE NORMAL TO ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED HEADED INTO NEXT WORK WEEK. HOPE EVERYONE CAN GET OUT AND ENJOY THE SUNSHINE TODAY ! CRAMER && .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD. WILL START TO SEE SOME MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUD COVER SPREAD INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTH IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WHICH WILL TRACK TO OUR SOUTH. PRECIPITATION WILL EVENTUALLY AFFECT SOUTHERN MISSOURI...MAINLY THE BBG SITE AND OUTSIDE OF THIS TAF FORECAST...BUT COULD SEE CEILINGS DROP INTO THE 2500-3000 FOOT RANGE AT BBG BY 12-14Z. LINDENBERG && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1234 PM CST MON JAN 9 2012 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-101845- 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- 1234 PM CST MON JAN 9 2012 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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. WIND GUSTS OVER 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI WEDNESDAY EVENING. SCATTERED SNOW FLURRIES AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF MEASURABLE LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. LITTLE TO NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. .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) GRIFFIN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A brush fire resulting from dry conditions and gusty winds completely destroyed a house near Lebanon before being brought under control.
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