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Severe weather hits Midwest, returns midweek
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3/31/2025
AccuWeather's Tony Laubach is in Missouri, where storms and hail hit on Sunday.
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Meteorologist Tony Loback, storm chaser Tony Loback now joins us from Cape
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Girardeau, Missouri where it was just a very, very busy Sunday, Tony. Yeah, Bernie
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and yeah you mentioned it when you came on air that we have definitely put the
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cold and cold front that swept through here. Temperatures and AccuWeather real
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feels right now in the upper 30s and low 40s, so it is a chilly start here. Very
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far cry from what we were dealing with yesterday as temperatures got near 80
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degrees, but that fueled the severe thunderstorms across this region.
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Widespread, if you get across the river into southern Illinois, a lot of reports
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of hail up to two inches plus in diameter in areas like DuQuoin, outside
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of Carbondale and Fairfield. Those areas seeing quite a bit of hail. Out this way,
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further south you got, we saw hail approaching tennis ball size out of
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storms that look pretty impressive there for a while. We'll show you some of the
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footage here. This was last night after sunset when one of those tornadic storms
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crossed I-55. This was kind of near the Portageville area. We were in the RFD. I
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was right in the hook of this storm as this came through. It was warned for a
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tornado at the time, but there was no confirmed tornado that came through this
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area, thank goodness. You see a lot of the semi trucks that we had pulled over on
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the side of the road. Very mixed feeling on that one because obviously the semi
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trucks are usually the most vulnerable for crosswinds and they typically get
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blown over, but unfortunately a lot of them kind of clogging overpasses.
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Actually had a lot of issues with folks there stopping on overpasses and
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actually bringing traffic to a stop while a lot of them were taking shelter
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from some of the hail that was crossing the interstate. Folks, we do not, do not
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stop under underpasses. That is one of the worst places you can absolutely be,
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especially if you got a storm that might be producing a tornado. So that was
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certainly of some concern for folks there, but certainly yesterday widespread
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severe weather. A couple of limiting factors which I think kind of prevented
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more tornadoes down in this region. One of those being the surface winds. I
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talked about that when we went live on air yesterday guys, that we had southwest
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surface winds which really kind of kept the low-level shear down to a minimum
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and the close proximity. We had a cold front that was coming through. A lot of
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these storms were pretty close to it and it was kind of pulling in some of that
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cooler air on the backside of those storms. I noticed a lot of times the RFD,
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a lot of times that's kind of like the hint that tornadoes are about to form,
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a lot of those RFDs were quite cold and that really brings a lot of downward
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motion which kind of prevents a lot of tornadoes from happening. So a worst
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case scenario avoided yesterday, but certainly a, if you don't mind me saying,
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hail of a day for folks in this area.
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Meteorologist and storm chaser Tony Laubach, thanks for that update as he
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continues to get ready for the next risk of severe weather, which we know is
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just days away, Bernie.
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