On a very wintry-like day, it’s time to prepare for spring-time severe weather.
The annual Statewide Tornado Drill takes place at 11:00am Wednesday.
The National Weather Service asks you to treat the drill as if were an actual tornado warning and review your plan for taking shelter.
The drill is to test everyone’s readiness for life-threatening severe weather events, such as tornadoes, flash floods, and damaging winds.
Many school districts and businesses will be taking part in the tornado drill.
While highways across the Ozarks are mainly wet Wednesday morning, the snow that fell early in the morning has created visibility problems.
As of 7:45am, nine crashes and several stalled vehicles were being reported in the Springfield metro area, including wrecks on I-44 and Highway 65.
The MoDOT Traveler Information Map is reporting mainly wet roadways in southwest Missouri, with parts of Highway 13 north of Springfield and Highway 60 east of Springfield partly snow covered.
A High Wind Warning remains in effect until 6:00pm Wednesday for Barton, St. Clair and Vernon Counties to the north and west of Springfield, where up to 60 mile per hour wind gusts out of the northwest could bring down trees and some power lines.
We’ve had reports of several hundred power outages in the Ozarks Wednesday morning, including 200 in Barry County, with other outages in Dade and Polk Counties. Springfield City Utilities is reporting around 60 outages as of 8:00am.
Most of the Ozarks is under a Wind Advisory until 6:00pm Wednesday, with wind gusts up to 55 miles per hour. Unsecured objects will be blown around, and tree limbs could come down.
While highways across the Ozarks are mainly wet Wednesday morning, the snow that fell early in the morning has created visibility problems.
As of 7:45am, nine crashes and several stalled vehicles were being reported in the Springfield metro area, including wrecks on I-44 and Highway 65.
The MoDOT Traveler Information Map is reporting mainly wet roadways in southwest Missouri, with parts of Highway 13 north of Springfield and Highway 60 east of Springfield partly snow covered.
A High Wind Warning remains in effect until 6:00pm Wednesday for Barton, St. Clair and Vernon Counties to the north and west of Springfield, where up to 60 mile per hour wind gusts out of the northwest could bring down trees and some power lines.
We’ve had reports of several hundred power outages in the Ozarks Wednesday morning, including 200 in Barry County, with other outages in Dade and Polk Counties. Springfield City Utilities is reporting around 60 outages as of 8:00am.
Most of the Ozarks is under a Wind Advisory until 6:00pm Wednesday, with wind gusts up to 55 miles per hour. Unsecured objects will be blown around, and tree limbs could come down.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for much of the Ozarks beginning at 3am Wednesday morning until 9am Wednesday.
Hazards include snow up to one and a a half inches, 45-60mph winds, and ice on roadways. Strong winds could also result in downed trees and power lines.
Counties involved in this advisory include Bourbon, Benton, Morgan, Vernon, St. Clair, Hickory, Camden, Pulaski,
Barton, Cedar, Polk, Dallas, Laclede, Jasper, Dade, Greene, Webster, Wright, Lawrence, and Christian.
Springfield police have arrested a suspect in a shooting in North Springfield Monday.
Police responded to a shots-fired call near Kearney and Kansas and found a man with a gunshot wound. He’s in serious condition following surgery.
Police believe a disturbance in the Walmart parking lot led to the shooting. A nearby Starbucks location was damaged by some of the shots.
A missing two-year-old girl from Roach, Missouri, was found dead Monday night.
Iszabella O’Bryan was reported missing about 4:45 p.m. Crews searched an area near Roach and found her unresponsive.
Highway Patrol troopers say she drowned near the 44-mile mark of Lake of the Ozarks. The Camden County Sheriff’s Office and the Highway Patrol are investigating her death.
We’re in for a wild next 24 hours of weather in the Ozarks.
The National Weather Service says there’s a marginal severe storm risk for much of southwest Missouri on Tuesday.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 11:00am Tuesday for Christian, Barry,
The watch was issued after storms in eastern and northeast Oklahoma prompted the issuance of severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings. The storms were expected to weaken as they moved into southwest Missouri, but could still pose a severe weather threat.
We could have multiple rounds of storms as we go through Tuesday, with large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes all potential hazards.
A Wind Advisory is in effect from Tuesday night into Wednesday, with gusts of 40 to 55 miles per hour.
Rain will turn to snow as we had into the overnight hours Tuesday night, with a dusting to 1.5 inches of snow accumulation on elevated and grassy surfaces.
This could lead to some slick roads Wednesday morning.
We’ll keep you up to date with the latest weather conditions on 93-3 and A-M 560 KWTO.
Around 1p.m. Monday afternoon Springfield Police responded to a parking lot near Kearney Street and Kansas Expressway with reports of a shooting.
Law Enforcement found a man with a gunshot wound, but haven’t released the extent of his injuries. Police are looking for a suspect, but a description has not yet been given to the public.