Weather Alerts For Stark City, MO

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Springfield MO 945 PM CDT Fri Apr 3 2026 Jasper MO-Newton MO-McDonald MO- 945 PM CDT Fri Apr 3 2026 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NEWTON...NORTHWESTERN MCDONALD AND SOUTH CENTRAL JASPER COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 PM CDT... At 944 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from Galena to near Saginaw to near Neosho to near Goodman. Movement was east at 35 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. Locations impacted include... Southern Joplin, Carthage, Neosho, Granby, Duquesne, Goodman, Duenweg, Diamond, Loma Linda, Leawood, Silver Creek, Shoal Creek Drive, Saginaw, Fidelity, Newtonia, Redings Mill, Stark City, Grand Falls Plaza, Shoal Creek Estates, and Ritchey. This includes Interstate 44 between mile markers 0 and 25. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for southeastern Kansas...and southwestern Missouri. &&

Watch county notification for watches 93/95 National Weather Service Springfield MO 944 PM CDT Fri Apr 3 2026 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Northwest Arkansas Far Southeast Kansas Southwest into South-Central Missouri Southern into Eastern Oklahoma * Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 940 PM until 500 AM CDT. * Primary threats include... Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts to 80 mph possible Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible A tornado or two possible SUMMARY...A broken squall line with a few severe linear thunderstorm clusters will continue to move eastward across the Watch through the late evening and into the overnight. Severe gusts ranging from 60-85 mph are possible with the more intense clusters. A brief tornado is possible with a stronger mesovortex. The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles west northwest of Fort Leonard Wood MO to 45 miles west southwest of Ardmore OK. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5). 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. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 93... AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector 27035.

Closest strike: 13.09 miles Storms Approaching Stay alert and frequently check WeatherBug to see if storms are moving toward you. Be mindful that new storms can also form with little notice.

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 A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST TEXAS NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST IOWA AND EAST INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS SUMMARY Thunderstorms continue to evolve into an extensive line this evening from Iowa to Oklahoma and northwest Texas. Damaging winds, hail, and a couple of tornadoes remain possible through the overnight. 01Z Update Thunderstorms continue to develop along and ahead of an advancing cold front this evening. These storms should continue to increase in number, growing upscale into an extensive linear MCS from Northwest Texas northeastward into southern Iowa. Despite nocturnal stabilization of the boundary layer, forcing along the cold front, MUCAPE between 1000-2000 J/kg, and sufficient vertical shear should support a continued hail and wind threat into the overnight hours, especially across the southern portion of this area where updrafts appear to be more robust than areas farther north. Given the moist low-levels and a modest uptick in the low-level jet, a couple of tornadoes may still occur as well. Additional thunderstorms have developed eastward along the warm front draped across southern Iowa east across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. MUCAPE and vertical shear decrease with eastward extent along the warm front, organized thunderstorms within the frontal zone should support an localized hail and wind threat for a few more hours. A tornado or two could also be realized with any discrete/semi-discrete cell that can increase its resonance time in the frontal zone, especially across central Illinois where better instability and vertical shear exist.

Pollen Index: 11.6 Pollen Level: high Predominant Pollen: Maple, Cedar/Juniper and Elm. The amount of pollen in the air 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. With this amount of reduction in pollen levels, tomorrow should be better for allergy sufferers.