An isolated storm produced a couple of severe wind gusts at Pierce City.
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The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
An isolated storm produced a couple of severe wind gusts at Pierce City.
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 Nov 23, 2:43 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 243 PM CST Sun Nov 23 2014 ...Turning Windy and Colder Tonight and Tomorrow... .SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Monday) Issued at 221 PM CST SUN NOV 23 2014 A surface low pressure was currently near Tulsa and slowly deepening. A strong cold front was currently moving southeast stretching from near Kansas City to Ponca. This front will move quickly through the area this evening. The surface low pressure will move northeastward across the Missouri Ozarks tonight. Additional showers will be likely tonight and maybe a rumble of thunder this evening with some elevated instability. No severe weather is expected. Additional rainfall for tonight will be between a tenth and a quarter of an inch possible with the higher amounts near central Missouri. Models still indicate that maybe just enough cold air in the mid levels may allow some of the rain showers to mix with or briefly change over to wet snow. Surface temperatures will be above freezing in the middle to upper 30s and ground temperatures are warm in the 40s. The best potential to see a little rain/snow mix will be along and north of I-44 late tonight before the precip exits the area. The could be a brief light dusting of wet snow on grassy areas along and north of Highway 54 across central Missouri. But again...no impacts are expected from the wet snow. Winds will be very gusty tonight and tomorrow. Winds will be sustained 20 to 25 mph with wind gusts up to 40 mph likely tonight and tomorrow. This will be just shy of wind advisory criteria but something to keep an eye on. Much colder weather returns for Monday with clouds slowly trying to clear out and highs in the 40s. .LONG TERM...(Monday Night through Sunday) Issued at 221 PM CST SUN NOV 23 2014 A sharp trough across the Great Lakes Region into the south central portion of the U.S. will keep the weather pattern below average for the early part of this week. There will be a gradual moderation of temperatures by the middle of the week. Another shortwave moves across the Midwest on Wednesday and bring another dry cold front and reinforce the cool and dry weather pattern. Travelers will have fair weather for traveling on Wednesday. Thanksgiving will be sunny and seasonable cool. The upper level pattern flattens by the end of the week and weekend. This will bring a moderation of temperatures with temperatures closer to seasonable averages and no precip in the forecast at this time. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Monday Afternoon) Issued at 1134 AM CST SUN NOV 23 2014 Yet another complex and challenging forecast for area aerodromes. Brunt of rainfall has shifted east of the aerodromes this morning and for much of the afternoon, IFR stratus will lift to MVFR with patchy drizzle around. Later this afternoon, the cold front to our northwest will move into the region and increase rain chances from northwest to southeast across the area. Still cannot rule out a rumble or two of thunder from 21z to 03z along the front. Cold front will arrive this evening at all TAF sites and winds will abruptly shift to the west/northwest. Wind speeds and gusts will be strong this evening and this will be something to monitor closely. Rain will exit to the northeast after midnight. There remains a brief window of opportunity for rain to mix with or change over to snow. With temperatures in the mid 30s, impacts are not expected. Stratus (IFR to low end MVFR) will linger into Monday morning. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...Griffin LONG TERM...Griffin AVIATION...Gagan
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 407 PM CST SUN NOV 23 2014 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-242215- 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- 407 PM CST SUN NOV 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. LIMITED SNOW RISK. DISCUSSION... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SURGES ACROSS THE OZARKS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER MAINLY SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS EVENING WITH ISOLATED ELSEWHERE. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH FROM THE NORTHWEST CAN NOT BE RULED OUT OVERNIGHT TONIGHT BEHIND A COLD FRONT. RAIN MAY MIX WITH OR BRIEFLY CHANGE OVER TO LIGHT SNOW LATE TONIGHT NORTH OF I-44...MAINLY FOR AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE ABOVE FREEZING AND ONLY A LIGHT DUSTING OF SNOW MAY BE POSSIBLE ON GRASSY AREAS FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 54. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ON MONDAY. .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
506 PM CST SUN NOV 23 2014
MOZ101-102-232330-
BARRY MO-MCDONALD MO-
506 PM CST SUN NOV 23 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN MCDONALD AND WESTERN
BARRY COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CST...
AT 504 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF POWELL...OR 14 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CASSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BUTTERFIELD...CASSVILLE...EXETER...
POWELL...PURDY...RIDGLEY...ROCKY COMFORT...SELIGMAN...WASHBURN...
WAYNE AND WHEATON.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY INCLUDE ROARING
RIVER STATE PARK.
PEOPLE IN EASTERN MCDONALD AND WESTERN BARRY COUNTIES...INCLUDING
WASHBURN...EXETER...CASSVILLE AND ROARING RIVER STATE PARK...SHOULD
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS
AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER
THREATEN.
LAT...LON 3649 9422 3669 9422 3675 9411 3675 9407
3678 9407 3687 9390 3649 9377
TIME...MOT...LOC 2307Z 260DEG 27KT 3660 9406
BOXELLThe Springfield radar (KSGF), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:31 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was reported blown down along Highway 97 just north of Pierce City.
A local business reported at least 60 mph wind gusts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, November 2014
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: 544454, 544455.