A line of severe thunderstorms produced multiple reports of damaging winds and large hail. There were a couple weak tornadoes which developed as well.
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The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
A line of severe thunderstorms produced multiple reports of damaging winds and large hail. There were a couple weak tornadoes which developed as well. There was another round of severe storms a couple days later that produced large hail.
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 Apr 26, 5:51 AM CST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Springfield MO 651 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 251 AM CDT Tue Apr 26 2016 Convection starting to develop along a west east boundary across northeast KS and west central MO near the I-70 corridor. Pretty decent elevated mixed layer was located along and south of the boundary and developing convection including our forecast area. Surface low was located over the high plains with dryline from western Kansas into the panhandle of OK and TX. South-southwest low level jet and mid level diffluent flow was aiding in the developing convection. This is going to be a busy weather day/night for our CWA and neighboring CWA's to the west and will be the main focus with this forecast package. && .SHORT TERM...(Today and tonight) Issued at 251 AM CDT Tue Apr 26 2016 Early morning convection will continue to increase north of the CWA prior to sunrise nearer to the surface boundary. This activity will gradually shift east today over mostly northern and central MO, possibly affecting our central MO counties later today. Further south within the EML, instability will increase significantly with CAPES in excess of 3000 j/kg developing. Have my doubts as to whether we will freely convect given the strength of the thermal cap in place without a trigger, but will keep in low end pops just in case. Best chance will be over central MO where some outflow or ongoing convection may move into the area. Dryline out west is likely to get active by midday as upper level jet impinges on the central/southern plains and weakens the EML. By late in the afternoon, the shear starts to become fairly strong to our west and the combination with the strong instability supports the moderate risk of severe storms from southern Nebraska into central Kansas and Oklahoma. The best chances for supercells moving into our area will be this evening and over our western CWA, before they start to congeal into more of line segments. The primary severe risk after that occurs will be damaging wind, although we could still see tornadoes develop out of these line segments through the rest of the evening and overnight hours. .LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Monday) Issued at 251 AM CDT Tue Apr 26 2016 Wednesday looks like a messy forecast. There will probably be ongoing convection at 12z Wed to start the morning, but models are clearing this out by late morning. With the front still to the west, can enough instability develop in the wake of the first complex for convection to refire in the afternoon. Best bet will be over our eastern CWA, where the higher surface dewpoints will hang around the longest. Current day 2 outlook shows this with slight risk over the eastern half of our CWA. Would expect this activity to clear our eastern CWA by mid to late evening. There should be a brief break from the convective potential on Thursday, before the active pattern brings in the next system on Friday into the weekend. This has the potential to be a wet weekend with closed upper level low sitting over the central U.S. for quite awhile. && .AVIATION...(For the 12Z TAFS through 12Z Wednesday morning) Issued at 651 AM CDT Tue Apr 26 2016 Rather low confidence in overall forecast, especially with respect to the details. Short term models want to lift MVFR ceilings from eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas northward into the taf sites. This has been a trend for the last several runs and latest satellite imagery also showing this trend, so expect a period of MVFR ceilings this morning. Otherwise expect VFR flight conditions through the remainder of the taf period with MVFR/IFR possible in convection later today and tonight. In terms of convection an area of thunderstorms over northeast Kansas is expected to drop southeast into central Missouri by mid-day. Expect this activity to remain north of the taf sites though, but did include some VCTS this afternoon. Otherwise, better chances will come this evening as convection across Kansas and Oklahoma pushes eastward. Timing still a little uncertain but will most likely affect KJLN during the early to mid evening and KSGF and KBBG late evening to midnight or shortly there after. && .SGF Watches/Warnings/Advisories... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...Lindenberg SHORT TERM...Lindenberg LONG TERM...Lindenberg AVIATION...Raberding
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 835 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-271345- 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- 835 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED TORNADO RISK. ELEVATED HAIL RISK. ELEVATED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING RISK. DISCUSSION... A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST FROM THE KANSAS CITY AREA LATER THIS MORNING...AND PUSH SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA FROM MID MORNING INTO THIS AFTERNOON. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS. ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OUT IN THE PLAINS. THIS ACTIVITY WILL EVENTUALLY SHIFT EASTWARD INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS EVENING. ALL MODES OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN FROM THE WEST. THE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY FORM INTO LINE SEGMENTS TONIGHT WHEN THE MAIN RISK WILL BECOME DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS. A TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT WITH THIS ACTIVITY...BUT THE MAIN TORNADIC RISK WILL BE ALONG AND WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 49 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING OVER THE EASTERN OZARKS WHERE SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. IF ENOUGH INSTABILITY CAN REDEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON...ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EAST OF HIGHWAY 65 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS A SURFACE FRONT PUSHES THROUGH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE MAY BE THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL STRONG STORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. THERE MAY BE A LIMITED FLOODING THREAT WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA LATER THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT. && MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED AT: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SGF/SITREP(ALL LOWERCASE) THIS PRODUCT IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) BOXELL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1026 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016
MOZ055-056-261615-
BENTON MO-MORGAN MO-
1026 AM CDT TUE APR 26 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MORGAN AND BENTON COUNTIES UNTIL
1115 AM CDT...
AT 1025 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PILOT
GROVE TO NEAR CALHOUN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE...
TRUMAN STATE PARK... TRUMAN LAKE...
LAKE OF THE OZARKS... VERSAILLES...
WARSAW... LINCOLN...
COLE CAMP... STOVER...
LAURIE... SUNRISE BEACH...
BARNETT... SYRACUSE...
GRAVOIS MILLS... IONIA...
FRISTOE... PALO PINTO...
RACKET... ROCKY MOUNT...
HASTAIN... FLORENCE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF ON OR NEAR TRUMAN LAKE AND LAKE OF THE OZARKS...GET OUT OF THE
WATER AND MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN
STRIKE OUT TO 15 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR
THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO
SAFE SHELTER NOW.
DO NOT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI.
LAT...LON 3868 9284 3860 9284 3843 9263 3835 9263
3835 9269 3822 9270 3822 9276 3819 9277
3820 9296 3821 9293 3823 9296 3819 9301
3822 9299 3827 9307 3806 9307 3807 9350
3808 9350 3851 9351 3853 9307 3869 9306
TIME...MOT...LOC 1525Z 305DEG 40KT 3893 9303 3844 9353
BOXELLThe Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:51 UTC.
44 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A Morgan County sheriff deputy estimated 60 mph winds along Highway 50 but there was no damage reported.
Several power lines were blown down along Highway 50.
Several large trees were blown down.
Several large trees were blown down.
This report was relayed from social media.
Penny size hail was reported southeast of Rolla.
Quarter size hail was reported near Farm Road 225 north of Farm Road 22.
Nickel size hail was reported at the KRBK Studios on East Sunshine Street.
Quarter size hail was reported 1 mile northwest of Marshfield.
Quarter size hail was reported in Marshfield.
Quarter size hail was reported southeast of Marshfield.
Dime to nickel size hail was reported near Niangua.
Quarter size hail was reported along Highway 38 near High Prairie.
Quarter size hail was reported near Duncan.
A brick structure was severely damaged by thunderstorm winds in Liberal.
Emergency management estimated 60 mph winds but no damage was reported.
A roof was blown off a house along with other houses damaged on Gardendale Road.
A few trees were blown down and there was damaged to a metal building.
Straight line winds downed a few trees and caused the brick facade to fall off a building in Liberal.
Several trees and power lines were blown down.
A NWS storm survey confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down approximately two miles north of Seneca, Missouri. The path was approximately one mile long with a width of 150 yards. Maximum winds were estimated up to 90 mph. The tornado uprooted numerous trees and caused damage to a local church as well as a few homes in the area.
Several trees and power lines were blown down in Lamar. An RV was blown over along Interstate 49.
Emergency management estimated winds up to 60 mph but no damage was reported.
A personal weather station southwest of Horton measured a 64 mph wind gust.
A storm survey determined that straight line winds produced a damage path nearly a half mile long across portions of south Carthage. Several trees were uprooted or snapped. The roof of one home was torn off.
A large tree was blown down.
Straight line winds removed shingles off a home and blew down several trees. Tree limbs and roof debris were scattered towards the northeast.
A tree was blown down east of Pineville on K Highway.
Several trees were uprooted in Liberal.
A tree was reported blown down.
Several power lines were blown down at Interstate 49 and Highway 60 in Neosho.
Several large tree limbs were blown down in Carthage.
Several trees were snapped or uprooted. A few power lines were blown down.
A mesonet weather station measured a 67 mph wind gust.
A large tree limb was blown down onto a vehicle.
Several power lines and trees were blown down in Monett.
A large tree fell into a house.
A tree was blown down in Republic off P Highway.
A NWS storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado damaged a few homes on the southwest side of Springfield in the town of Battlefield. There was damage to roofs, gutters, and awnings. The tornado was a brief touchdown.
There was minor tree damage with large limbs blown down and windows broken on a house on Royal Vista.
A large tree was blown over the road.
There was minor to moderate roof damage to multiple homes off of Shawnee Drive and Village Terrace Drive.
Small to medium tree limbs were blown down on Shore Line Road.
Multiple large trees and limbs were blown down on Highway 265 south of Highway 376 near Skyline Road.
Several power poles were broken at Ozark Mountain Resort.
A large tree was blown down with leaf and tree debris embedded into the home siding.
A line of thunderstorms produced up to 70 mph straight line winds which damaged homes south of Kimberling City. These damaging winds produced significant tree damage across Joe Bald Peninsula. Several trees were snapped or uprooted. Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
Several trees were blown down around Pointe Royal.
There was a report of 60 mph winds at Highway 14 and Highway 160 in Nixa but no damage reported.
A large tree was blown down in downtown Branson.
A storm survey determined that straight line winds uprooted numerous trees and caused minor damage to several homes on Point Seven Peninsula. Some homes had west facing windows blown out.
Several trees were blown down near downtown Hollister and near the College of the Ozarks. Two homes sustained significant damage from falling trees. Survey crews estimated the winds around 75 mph.
There was shingles blown off about a dozen homes. One home had some decking peeled off.
Medium size tree limbs were blown down at Highway 160 and Highway 76.
Hail fell for about 10 minutes.
A large tree fell on to power lines near State Highway 14 and Highway VV.
Several trees were blown down.
A social media picture showed hail slightly larger than a quarter.
A picture from social media showed hail size up to 2 inches. Several cars sustained dents and damage in the area.
A picture from Facebook showed half dollar size hail.
Hail up to quarter size was reported at Montauk State Park.
A picture from social media showed half dollar size hail.
There were several pictures from social media showed quarter to half dollar size hail around Cabool.
A picture from social media showed quarter size hail north of Salem on Highway 19.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 2016Warnings in Missouri, April 2016
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