A cold front moving into the area produced severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and large hail. Minor flooding was also reported.
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A cold front moving into the area produced severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and large hail. Minor flooding was also reported.
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 Aug 31, 10:29 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1129 PM CDT Sun Aug 31 2014 .SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Monday Night) Issued at 242 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014 Looks quiet in the near term. A few showers have developed over the far eastern cwfa but weak shortwave upper level riding has kept things in check. Strong/severe storms are expected to develop over the northern and central Plains this evening as a shortwave moves east from the Rockies. High res models move some convection into the northwest and northern cwfa late tonight into Mon morning. By this time, expect convection to become increasingly elevated as a strengthening cap/elevated mixed layer spreads northeast into the area. Do have some pops to account for this weakening convection. Capping is expected to remain in place for much of the day Monday, strongest over the sw quarter of the cwfa. A west-east oriented sfc boundary is expected to set up somewhere, likely over central MO late during the day, and expect to see renewed convection develop late in the day and the evening with weakening capping with another shortwave approaching, increased low level moisture advection and convergence, and moderate instability. The window for sfc or at least low level based convection will be fairly narrow Monday night, but cold see a hail/wind threat during that time. Training/back-building convection is also a possibility with areas of heavy rain setting up somewhere over the cwfa Monday night. The heavy rain possibility is becoming an increasing concern, but many areas can take a good soaking right now. Still, expect that we have at least a limited chance for some flash flooding where excessive rain/runoff occurs. .LONG TERM...(Tusday through Sunday) Issued at 242 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014 The front is expected to stall over the southern cwfa Tuesday and Tuesday night with continued chances for occasional thunderstorms. The front is expected to finally lift back north Wednesday as low pressure develops over the Plains in response to a shortwave moving into the Rockies. A front will push back to the south by late in the week as the shortwave passes north of the area. Have rain chances Friday-Saturday. The ECMWF and GFS give the front a pretty good bump to the south, moving Canadian high pressure into the Corn Belt/Midwest next weekend with dry and cool weather a possibility for late Saturday and Sunday. && .AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Monday Night) Issued at 1125 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2014 Convection progressing more eastward than southward which will add a few hours to first though earlier this evening with main convection getting in the SGF/JLN areas by 10-11z. VFR conditions expected outside of convection with MVFR within any convection. Convective trends will likely start to diminish by mid morning and as it pushes further south so far now will go with a prob30 group with this area of convection. Redevelopment will be possible late in the afternoon/early evening. Non-convective low level wind shear will be possible at SGF/JLN overnight with strong low level jet setting up over the area. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...DSA LONG TERM...DSA AVIATION...Lindenberg
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 105 AM CDT MON SEP 1 2014 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-020615- 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- 105 AM CDT MON SEP 1 2014 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... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS OVERNIGHT. THE STORMS MAY MOVE AS FAR SOUTH AS THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR BY DAY BREAK. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY. THERE IS A LIMITED RISK FOR AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WITH WINDS TO 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL FROM SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. ANY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE VERY LOCALIZED IN NATURE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SOME ONGOING LINGERING WEAKENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY MORNING OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTH OF INTERSTATE 44. A SLOW MOVING FRONT WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE FOR PERIODIC THUNDERSTORMS LATE MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT AND LASTING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL THE MAIN RISKS. AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A RISK FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE MID 90S WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR SOME AREAS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN ON A DAILY AFTERNOON BASIS WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .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) FOSTER
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:57 UTC.
3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were reported down in Fort Scott. Some damage to vehicles were reported because of fallen trees and trees blocked several roadways.
A tree was reported down across the road near the intersection of Southwest Quaker Road and Southwest 30th Street.
A few low water crossings southwest of West Mineral were impassable due to high water.
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