The Multi-day Monster Wind Event Storm has begun. Missouri getting hit hard.

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Channel: thornews · 2017 · News & Politics

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The storm has begun & it is fierce. It's already bringing hard wind, GIANT Hail bigger than your hand and a whole lot of rain to Missouri. 

This storm is going to be very bad.

Be as prepared as you can.
If you are in the path,
stay updated.

God bless everyone,

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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has issued the following severe weather watches:

A Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) severe thunderstorm watch valid until midnight CDT for portions of southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana western Kentucky and northern Tennessee. This watch area includes Nashville, Paducah, Kentucky and Evansville, Indiana. 
A tornado watch valid until 7 p.m. CDT for portions of central and southern Missouri and far eastern Kansas. This watch area includes Springfield, Missouri, Joplin and Poplar Bluff.
A tornado watch valid until 12 a.m. CDT for portions of eastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas. This watch includes Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma and Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
A severe thunderstorm watch valid until 9 p.m. CDT for portions of southern Illinois, eastern Missouri, central Kentucky and southern Indiana. This watch area includes St. Louis and Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. 
A severe thunderstorm watch valid until 10 pm EDT for portions of eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, central and western West Virginia, extreme southeastern Indianaincludes Hazard, Kentucky and Charleston, West Virginia.   
A severe thunderstorm watch valid until 10 p.m. EDT for portions of southern and central Virginia and northern North Carolina. This watch area includes Richmon and Virginia Beach, Virginia and Rocky Mount, North Carolina. 
A severe thunderstorm watch valid until 12 a.m. MDT/11 p.m. CDT for portions of southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, northeastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This watch includes La Junta, Colorado and Dalhart, Texas. 
A severe thunderstorm watch valid until 2 a.m. EDT for portions of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. This watch area includes Knoxville, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Reports: Severe storms unleash softball-sized hail in Missouri

A powerful line of thunderstorms threatens to cause significant damage as it plows across the central United States through Saturday night.
Damaging winds in excess of 70 mph will cause major tree, power line and structural damage. Flooding downpours, very large hail and even a few destructive tornadoes are also anticipated.
Cities at risk for severe weather to begin the holiday weekend include Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Dallas; Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee.

As of 5:16 CDT, a possible tornado is forming along the I-44 corridor from Southwest Missouri into northeast Oklahoma.

As of 5:15 p.m. CDT, the NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a Particularly Dangerous Situation severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western and south-central Kentucky, southeast Missouri and western and middle Tennessee until midnight CDT.
According to the NWS, primary threats include widespread, damaging winds with scattered gusts to 80 mph, scattered, large hail and potential tornadoes.

As of 3:01 p.m. CDT Saturday, confirmed tornado near Lebanon, Missouri.
Emergency management in Laclede County, Missouri, confirmed reports of damage due to severe weather.
Radar also confirmed debris was lofted from a tornado just north of Twin Bridges, Missouri, as of 3:05 p.m. CDT.
As of 1:30 p.m. CDT Saturday, softball-sized hail has been reported south of Garden City, Missouri. Huge hail, larger than four inches, has also been spotted in Adrian, Missouri. 

The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning for Northern Cherokee County in southeastern Kansas, Crawford County in southeastern Kansas and Barton County in southwestern Missouri until 5:15 p.m. CDT Saturday.
Two to three inches of rain has already fallen.
The severe weather outbreak quickly commenced during the early afternoon hours of Saturday from eastern Kansas to Missouri. Substantial golf ball-sized hail pounded a community south of Topeka, Kansas,r.
An 80 mph wind gust was recorded in Salem, Missouri late Saturday afternoon as a squall line intensified.

A 72 mph wind gust was reported near Osage Beach, which is 40 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri. 

Trees have been downed by straight-line winds according to numerous reports dotting central Missouri from Kansas City to south of and including Jefferson City. 

In Illinois, 55-70 mph gusts were reported east of Carbondale in southern Illinois. 

In Kentucky, lightning struck a tree and dropped it into a house in Clay City.

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