Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

Overview

Severe storms moved across the Missouri Ozarks during the afternoon and evening of July 19th, 2018. While a couple of large hail reports were received, the majority of severe weather occurred with damaging straight line winds. Numerous reports of damaging winds with trees uprooted and power lines down were received. We also measured 74 mph at the office in Springfield.