Weather Alerts For Highlandville, MO

# SUMMARY -------------------- - Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Far Northwest Arkansas Extreme Southeast Kansas Southwest and South-Central Missouri Northern, Central, and Western Oklahoma - Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 845 PM until 200 AM CDT. - Primary threats include... Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5 inches in diameter possible Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible A tornado or two possible # DETAILS -------------------- SUMMARY - A mix of mainly elevated supercells and some bowing clusters should continue to pose a threat for scattered large hail and damaging winds through the early morning hours. A tornado appears possible if a supercell can become surface based along/south of the cold front; but, confidence in this occurring is low. - The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40 statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west of Clinton OK to 25 miles east southeast of Fort Leonard Wood MO. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2). AVIATION A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector 26040. ISSUED AT The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a ISSUED BY 1051 PM CDT Fri Apr 17 2026 HEADER Watch county notification for watch 132 | National Weather Service Springfield MO # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce tornadoes.

Closest strike: 4.26 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF ILLINOIS INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI...AND OVER NORTHERN OKLAHOMA SUMMARY Damaging storms producing wind, hail and isolated tornadoes remain possible this evening from Illinois into Oklahoma. WI/MI into IL and MO Supercells have largely merged into a broken line of assorted bows from far southeast WI across much of northern into western IL and trailing into northeast MO. The 00Z ILX sounding shows steep lapse rates aloft and large deep-layer shear, as well as veering winds with height. Low-level SRH will remain favorable for rotation to develop at least briefly anywhere within the line, with damaging winds the most likely threat. Storms have recently become better organized over central MO, and this activity may affect the St. Louis area later tonight. For lower MI into northern IN, the organized line of storms to the west along with a 60 kt low-level jet suggest at least isolated severe gusts may occur overnight despite lesser instability. For more information about Illinois, see mesoscale discussion 484. OK...Southeast KS...southwest MO...northwest AR Scattered severe cells persist near and north of the cold front across much of northern OK and extending into southeast KS. Although the undercutting cold air will likely mitigate wind potential, steep lapse rates aloft along with ample deep-layer shear will continue to favor hail. Storm coverage may be more isolated into southwest OK later tonight, but the environment remains quite favorable for large hail. One corridor for possible damaging wind or even a tornado is over northeast OK into southwest MO. Here, the front is not surging as fast, and storms over Osage county are already oriented more favorably N-S relative to the deep-layer shear. A southwest low-level jet near 50 kt will further support low-level rotation.

Pollen Index: 11.6 Pollen Level: high Predominant Pollen: Ash, Birch and Alder. The pollen levels for Saturday will be falling in the moderate range. This forecast of lower pollen concentration is based on falling temperatures and heavy rains in the morning and evening which tend to wash pollen out of the air. This will improve your outlook if you have allergies and enjoy the out of doors.