AccuWeather's Tony Laubach recaps Sunday storms in Missouri and Arkansas and looks ahead to a Wednesday to Thursday event.
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00:00Well, we put the cold and cold front
00:02here in Cape Girardeau on this Monday.
00:04After a big severe weather event on Sunday,
00:07temperatures plummeted 30 to 40 degrees,
00:09certainly feeling like late March here
00:11across portions of Southeast Missouri.
00:13But different story on your Sunday as we
00:15saw pretty copious amounts of severe weather,
00:18mainly in the form of hail.
00:20Ironically enough,
00:20falling ice as we talked about the
00:23cold temperatures behind that cold front.
00:25But ahead of that,
00:26that steamy air mass gave way to
00:28storms that looked a lot like this.
00:31Really across Southeast Missouri
00:32and Northeast Arkansas,
00:33where the areas I was targeting yesterday.
00:36The storms looking rather impressive for sure,
00:38but we're lacking a lot of the low
00:40level shear that is needed to make
00:43this a more prolific tornadic producing day.
00:46Really, it was mainly large hail.
00:48That was the big threat.
00:49But again,
00:50storms really just filling the
00:52skies with some awe inspiring sights.
00:54I tracked these storms into the evening,
00:56catching them near Portageville
00:57along I-55 with one of those
00:59tornadic cells cross the interstate.
01:01No tornado with this at the time,
01:03but certainly led to a lot of stop
01:05traffic as truckers were waiting
01:07for those winds to subside before
01:09they continued back along Interstate 55.
01:10But we are getting a little bit of a
01:13breather here, at least for the next.
01:15Couple of days,
01:16temperatures are going to rebound
01:17pretty quickly as we head into
01:19the middle part of the week,
01:20and unfortunately that is going to
01:22fuel yet another big severe weather
01:24event as we get into Wednesday.
01:25I will be in the region for that
01:27as we are expecting a busy couple
01:29of days as we get into the middle
01:31and latter part of the week.
01:33Reporting from Cape Girardeau,
01:34MO for Accuweather.
01:35I am meteorologist Tony law back.