Severe thunderstorms moved through the Ozarks Monday evening, bringing down trees and power lines.
Several tornado warnings were issued northwest of Springfield in parts of Vernon, St. Clair, Webster, and Wright Counties.
The tornado warning for Webster and Wright Counties lasted for around 10 minutes before being cancelled because the storm that prompted the warning had weakened below severe limits.
The town of Lowry City in St. Clair County along Highway 13 was hit particularly hard, with many reports of power lines down and outages in both Lowry City and Deepwater.
Amateur radio operators reported the roof of a barn blocking southbound Highway 13 in Lowry City around 7:00pm.
Iconium, Missouri fire reported multiple trees down along Highway HH blocking roadways in multiple places.
Joplin also reported power lines down, with more than 1,000 outages in Newton and McDonald Counties and almost 2,000 outages in McDonald County.
In Nixa, storms that moved through early Monday evening caused a couple of transformer fires in the city, including the 300 block of north Estes Street and the 700 block of east Mining Camp Road.
Just before 10:00pm Monday, we had reports of a tree down on Highway 14 in the Ava area.
By 10:00pm Monday, a Tornado Watch remained in effect for the eastern Ozarks until 3:00am Tuesday.
Several inches of rain fell in a short amount of time, causing flash flooding in southwest Missouri.
A Flash Flood Warning was issued for southeastern Greene, Christian, Webster, northwestern Douglas, and Stone Counties until 2:15am Tuesday.
A Flash Flood Warning was issued for McDonald County until 1:45am Tuesday, and another for northwestern Barton and southern Vernon Counties until 11:30pm Monday night.
(photo of roof off a garage in Carterville, MO courtesy of Jeff Morrissey, SW MO Regional Skywarn via NWS Chat)