John Robinson
EF1
After 11 PM CDT Sunday night, someone from the public posted a bogus picture of a funnel cloud at Gainesville, MO, and a HAM radio operator relayed it to NWS. The picture was altogether false. A media met soon discovered it was a picture that had appeared on The Weather Channel website in March 2022. Unfortunately, by then, the SGF NWS office had issued a tornado warning, based on tightening rotation on radar plus the picture.
During that same time frame, an emergency manager reported that 911 had received a report of "a confirmed tornado on the ground" at Camdenton, MO. While there was some tree damage in that area, no storm survey was apparently done. So it's impossible to be sure if that report was also false (or if someone saw trees fall and assumed it was a tornado).
Let's hope we don't have another spell of bad storm reports.
During that same time frame, an emergency manager reported that 911 had received a report of "a confirmed tornado on the ground" at Camdenton, MO. While there was some tree damage in that area, no storm survey was apparently done. So it's impossible to be sure if that report was also false (or if someone saw trees fall and assumed it was a tornado).
Let's hope we don't have another spell of bad storm reports.