A strong cold front moved through the region. Strong to isolated severe thunderstorms developed along the front and produced damaging winds.
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A strong cold front moved through the region. Strong to isolated severe thunderstorms developed along the front and produced damaging winds.
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 Sep 19, 4:30 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 530 PM CDT Thu Sep 19 2013 .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 315 PM CDT THU SEEP 19 2013 Water vapor imagery depicts a short wave trough digging southeast across the northern High Plains. Height falls and a surface cold front out ahead of this trough have resulted in thunderstorm development up across the Corn Belt region. Additional convection has developed from northeastern Oklahoma into northern Arkansas on the edge of an increased mid/upper level moisture feed and an overall diluent flow aloft. This general region has also reached their convective temperatures based on regional 12 TC Robs. With a rather breezy southwest wind, mid-afternoon temperatures were in the upper 80s to lower 90s. && .SHORT TERM...(Late this Afternoon through Saturday Night) Issued at 315 PM CDT THU SEEP 19 2013 From late this afternoon into this evening, there is some concern for micro burst potential given low level theta-e differentials in the 25 to 30 Kelvin range. The main threat will be along and south of the Ozark Plateau. That cold front will then move into extreme southeastern Kansas and west-central Missouri late tonight. Showers and thunderstorms will increase in areal coverage along and behind that front. We could see some gusty winds with that activity, however the overall severe threat looks fairly low. That front will then make steady progress southeast across the area on Friday. Showers and thunderstorms will continue across the area, but will eventually end from northwest to southeast throughout the day. We were not too quick to end the threat of precipitation as an upper level jet streak will become favorably positioned to perhaps keep some shower activity going well behind the surface front. Cool air affection and the widespread rainfall will keep temperatures from getting out of the lower to middle 70s. Any leftover activity will then end across south-central Missouri Friday evening. This will set the stage for a dry weekend with seasonably cool temperatures. We are looking at highs in the 70s with lows in the upper 40s to middle 50s. .LONG TERM...(Sunday through Thursday) Issued at 315 PM CDT THU SEEP 19 2013 For Sunday through Thursday, the 12z suite of medium range model output continues to produce an increasingly amplified pattern. Five wave charts do show a trough of increasing strength over the western half of the CO NUS with digging preferred in the Rockies/High Plains. Upper level ridging will be in control of our weather regime for much of the week. A shortwave trough looks to briefly knock down the strength of this ridge in the Monday/Tuesday time frame. The GS is most bullish with this feature, while the EMF, GS ensemble mean, GEM and UK MET are a bit more dampened. Given that this wave is heading into confluent flow, expectations are that this wave should weaken with time. There are some differences in PF output from the models, but given the dearth of deep layer moisture, have held off from mentioning any rain bearing Pops. Will continue to keep an eye on this system as an increase in moisture would lend to a risk for some shower activity. Otherwise, the week looks to be mainly dry and seasonably warm. && .AVIATION...(For the 00Z TADS through 00Z Friday Evening) Issued at 452 PM CDT THU SEEP 19 2013 Flying conditions in and out of area terminals will be deteriorating later tonight as a cold front advances into the area. Have ceilings coming down to to MFR by roughly 05z this evening with scattered convection becoming likely by then. Vi's will drop underneath heavy convection as well. Behind the cold front ceilings will drop further down into the IFR range from SGF and BBG but left JLN just at the lower range of MFR around 1k feet by tomorrow morning. TSRA overnight will give way to just SHRA by 12-14z tomorrow morning. Scattered showers will taper off by late morning to midday with MFR by midday hanging on through the afternoon. Winds will shift from southerly to northerly with passage of the front. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...Schaumann SHORT TERM...Schaumann LONG TERM...Schaumann AVIATION...Griffin
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 735 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-210045- 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- 735 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED HAIL RISK. LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING RISK. DISCUSSION... WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST FROM THE LATE EVENING HOURS INTO TONIGHT MAINLY NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE REGION. THE OVERALL SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IS LOW WITH THIS ACTIVITY. HOWEVER A FEW STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 54. OTHERWISE THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THESE STORMS TONIGHT WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE FRONT AND POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA FRIDAY...WITH THIS ACTIVITY PUSHING SOUTH OF THE AREA BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE MAIN RISK WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS FOR EARLY ON FRIDAY. .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
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
814 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013
MOZ068-079-200145-
HICKORY MO-POLK MO-
814 PM CDT THU SEP 19 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN POLK AND
SOUTHWESTERN HICKORY COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT...
AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DUNNEGAN...OR 12 MILES EAST OF STOCKTON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50
MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE DUNNEGAN...ELKTON...FLEMINGTON...
HUMANSVILLE...PITTSBURG...WEAUBLEAU AND WHEATLAND.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY INCLUDE POMME DE
TERRE LAKE AND POMME DE TERRE STATE PARK.
LAT...LON 3801 9346 3785 9325 3769 9360 3774 9361
3777 9363 3783 9359 3783 9357 3785 9358
3792 9353 3792 9351 3794 9351
TIME...MOT...LOC 0114Z 222DEG 32KT 3777 9357
GRIFFINThe Springfield radar (KSGF), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:43 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was reported blown down and blocked a roadway in Oronogo.
Several large trees and large branches were blown down in Collins. An awning was ripped off a gas station. One building had one of its walls blown out and the roof blown off. Several roofs had shingles blown off. A large highway sign was blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 469511, 469513.