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Heat advisory and storm risks for Springfield and Ozarks

Emergency Information

07/27/2025 03:19 PM (PDT)

Springfield, MO

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose-fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and eat stroke. The current time is 5.19 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Now here is the hazardous weather outlook for portions of the Missouri, Ozarks, and extreme southeast Kansas. For today and tonight, weather hazards expected, limited lightning risk, significant excessive heat risk, limited excessive rainfall risk discussion, dangerous heat continues today with afternoon and early evening heat index values between 100 to 1008 degrees. A heat advisory is still in effect through Tuesday at 7 p.m. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will be possible 20 to 30% across the area this afternoon into early this evening with the better chances over central and south central Missouri. A few stronger storms will be possible which may be capable of wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, frequent lightning, and torrential rainfall. The heavy rain may lead to very localized flooding risk if training of storms occurs. And now the extended outlook for the period Monday through Saturday. Heat advisory remains in effect until 7 p.m. Tuesday and an extreme heat watch for Oregon and Shannon Counties begins Monday afternoon and goes through Wednesday evening for up to 114 degree heat indices. Daily highs in the lower to middle 90s with maximum afternoon heat index values up to 109 degrees for the rest of the area. There is a 20 to 40% chance for thunderstorms at times during the middle to end of the week as a cold front moves into the region. Spotter information statement, spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. At 5 p.m. and Springfield, skies were mostly sunny. The temperature was 95. The dew point 72, and the relative humidity 47%. This made it feel like 103 degrees. The wind was southwest at 10 miles an hour, and the barometric pressure was 30.07 inches and falling. Around the region, skies ranged from mostly sunny to partly sunny. It was 94 at Joplin, Nanywan at Rala, and 92 at Tulsa. Elsewhere across the Midwest, Skies ranged from mostly sunny to partly sunny. It was 95 at Little Rock, 92 at Kansas City, 89 at Lake of the Ozarks, and 94 at St. Louis. Once again, at 5 p.m. in Springfield, it was 95 degrees, under mostly sunny skies. You're listening to NOAA Weather Radio Station WXL 46 Springfield, the voice of the National Weather Service. Broadcasting from the KWFC, FM Tower located near Fordland, Missouri, on a frequency of 162.40 MHz. WXL 46 provides the people of Southwest Missouri with the latest forecasts, watches, and warnings from the National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri. If you have problems with reception of this broadcast, Please contact the radio manufacturer or call us at 4178638028. If you have questions or comments concerning this broadcast, please contact the National Weather Service email at, contact.sgf at NIA-8.G-OV or write to the National Weather Service, 5805, West Highway WSpringfield, Missouri, 65802. For even more weather information from your National Weather Service, check out the following internet websites, www.weather.g.f. Here is your National Weather Service forecast for Southwest Missouri, including the cities of Springfield, Branson, Lebanon, and surrounding communities. Tonight. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lowes in the mid-70s. Southwest winds around 5 miles an hour. Chance of rain 20%. Monday, mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the midnights. Southwest winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Heat index values up to 10. Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid-70s. Southwest winds surround 5 miles an hour. Tuesday, sunny, hot with highs in the Upper Nettys. Southwest winds surround 5 miles an hour. Heat index values up to 108. Tuesday night, mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid-70s. Southwest winds surround 5 miles an hour in the evening. becoming light and variable. Wednesday, sunny, hot with highs in the midnights. Wednesday night, a chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Partly cloudy with a chance of showers.

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