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Even prior to that issuance, the NWS issued a Special Weather Statement at 8:34 pm that, “A significant and long-track ...

April was a busy month for tornadoes in Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas ... May 22, 2011, in Joplin; May 22, 2019, in Briarbrook/Jasper County. But this year, the storms spun earlier.

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Mo. — The National Weather Service rated ... It ended in southern Aurora just west of Highway 39. The tornado had a path of 2.18 miles, was 100 yards wide, and packed winds ...

WELL, NICK, YOU’RE BACK FROM STORM CHASING YESTERDAY AND WE’RE JUST GETTING WORD OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO THIS MORNING. SOME REALLY NASTY STORMS THAT WENT THROUGH THE SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI AREA ...

The tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service until 1:45 p.m. and included both Missouri and Illinois communities. The region saw frequent lightning strikes and heavy rainfall ...

The National Weather Service has confirmed two more tornadoes from the Easter Sunday storm system that moved across mid-Missouri. The National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday that an EF0 ...

Our sister station, KSNF/KODE in Joplin, reports that the National ... The tornado took on a more north-northeast path, and it moved into Missouri. The tornado, which witnesses described as ...

“A National Weather Service Survey team also determined a tornado moved through Barton County, MO including the city of Lamar, MO where EF-0 damage occurred.” About 200 structures sustained some sort ...

The NWS says the tornado was an EF-0 when it started at 1:57 Sunday afternoon northwest of Galena near Empire Lake. It downed hundreds of trees and multiple roofs before it crossed the Missouri ...