6/19/08 Disc: TX/KS/OK/MO/CO/NE

[Jennifer Combs]

May not be much to discuss, but I just wanted to say that the NWS did confirm an EF1 hit Springfield, MO. I keep wishing my car was running, but I wouldn't have been able to see much anyway; the tornado was rainwrapped. If anyone has a radar loop for this area, it would be interesting to watch. The storm appeared, to me, to form a decent hook as it moved into Springfield. I live just a couple of miles, if that, west of where the tornado touched down and from here all I could see was rain, rain, and more rain.

As a side note, nobody was injured. There were employees and customers in the building where the roof collapsed but they had all moved to the back of the store before it happened.

 

[Chris Nuttall]

I'm surprised that there wasn't much discussion on this event. For anyone that wasn't following the KAMA ASOS measured two gusts of 63 kts and 70kts. A gust of 63 kts was also measured at NWS-AMA. Straight-line winds also damaged part of a hangar at the airport.

Here's a link to their event report including pictures of the storm as it rolled in on the office.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ama/june19_2008_severe/index.htm