A cold front produced isolated severe thunderstorms.
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A cold front produced isolated severe thunderstorms.
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 Oct 12, 2:37 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Springfield MO 337 PM CDT Wed Oct 12 2016 .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Thursday) Issued at 234 PM CDT Wed Oct 12 2016 Showers and embedded thunderstorms continue late this afternoon as weak isentropic upglide persists over a low level frontogenetic zone. The persistence of the showers and thunderstorms for most of the day has kept instability on the low side. The potential for any strong to severe storms will be mainly confined to far southern Missouri where instability is slightly higher. Otherwise, showers and thunderstorms will decrease from northwest to southeast tonight as a 850 mb cold front clears the area. Cold air advection will continue at the surface and will usher a chilly air mass into the area. Low temperatures will be in the lower to middle 40s with perhaps a few upper 30s possible up towards Truman Lake. Surface high pressure will then build south into the Middle Mississippi Valley on Thursday. This will lead to dry weather and cool conditions. Despite a lot of sunshine (especially across central Missouri), high temperatures on Thursday will only warm into the lower to middle 60s. .LONG TERM...(Thursday Night through Wednesday) Issued at 234 PM CDT Wed Oct 12 2016 Short wave energy will then quickly move east into the area Thursday night. That surface front will begin to return north with isentropic upglide increasing across the area. This will lead to an increasing threat for showers and thunderstorms into Friday morning, especially across southern Missouri. A progressive upper level flow will then continue as we head into early next week. Saturday looks dry at this point, but another short wave trough will bring increasing precipitation chances from Saturday night into Sunday. We should see a good warming trend this weekend with highs around 80 degrees. Models then indicate a more amplified trough crossing the northern and central Plains from later Monday into Tuesday. This should push another decent cold front into the area around midweek with another shot at showers and thunderstorms. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Thursday afternoon) Issued at 1238 PM CDT Wed Oct 12 2016 Showers with perhaps a rumble of thunder were pushing through the region ahead of a cold frontal boundary that stretched across the area this afternoon. This frontal boundary will continue to march eastward shifting the surface winds from a southerly to a northerly direction. The heavier showers should end, however, ceilings and visibilities will be reduced behind the frontal boundary (IFR/MVFR respectively). JLN and SGF should begin to clear toward the early to middle part of the evening, however, BBG looks to hang onto reduced vis/cig right up until tomorrow morning. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...Schaumann LONG TERM...Schaumann AVIATION...Frye
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 224 PM CDT WED OCT 12 2016 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-131930- 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- 224 PM CDT WED OCT 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED HAIL RISK. LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK. ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK. DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. A FEW STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. ANY OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...AND AGAIN LATER SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THIS TIMEFRAME. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR 20MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30MPH DURING THE DAY SATURDAY IN ADVANCE OF ANOTHER COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH 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) HATCH
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:40 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down across Highway H approximately 3 miles southwest of Pineville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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