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Get your weather radios ready. After a brief storm caused damage in Southwest Missouri Sunday, more storms are possible tonight (3/9). KSMU's Michele Skalicky has more.
More severe weather is possible tonight in the Ozarks. John Gagan is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Springfield...
"It looks like at least this morning is going to be quiet and, certainly, getting into the afternoon, but maybe a few scattered showers will try to develop this afternoon, but the most active weather looks like it will try to move into the area this evening and overnight. I think folks will need to be prepared for an overnight episode of thunderstorms, which have the potential to be severe...hail to the size of golf balls, damaging wind gusts, and a few tornadoes are possible especially for areas along and west of the Interstate 65 corridor. To the east of the Highway 65 corridor, it looks like the activity will probably wait until the overnight hours to move through. And we'll have a damaging wind risk as well as hail to the size of quarters."
Storms yesterday morning lifted the roof off of Fair Grove Elementary and blew part of it onto nearby trailers. Despite the damage, the school WILL be in session today.Other damage from Sunday morning’s storms included downed trees and structural damage...
"We did have a very skinny line of thunderstorms that developed along a fast-moving cold front Sunday morning...moved across the Springfield area and areas to the east after about 8 am. We had narrow swaths of damage north of Springfield from about the Fair Grove area, towards Conway and into Southern Laclede County, and we had an additional narrow damage path through Southern Hickory, Northern Camden and Eastern Morgan Counties."
He says the damage was caused by straight-line winds of 70 to 85 miles per hour. Ironically, this is severe weather awareness week...
"Mother Nature seems to be obliging with our severe weather awareness week. It's kind of a coincidence there, but, yes, all week different topics on severe weather that we'll discuss everyday. We put those over weather radio--also on our website. We talk about preparedness for all types of severe weather from hail, winds, tornadoes and what you can do to prepare yourself."
Temperatures are expected to fall by mid-week. Highs Wednesday will be only in the low 40s.
