In many parts of the Ozarks, you don’t have to go very far on this Monday morning to find tree limbs down across yards and roadways.
Severe thunderstorms producing widespread wind gusts of 60 to 70 mile per hour, with a few reports of 70 to 80 miles per hour, slammed southwest Missouri late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
More than 5,000 customers of Springfield City Utilities were still without power at 7:00 a.m., with nearly 50,000 outages in Missouri and another 12,000 in Arkansas.
There were no indications of rotation with the line of storms and no tornadoes were reported.
Here are some of the damage reports received by the National Weather Service in Springfield: