COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eighty members of Missouri Task Force 1 are heading to St. Louis to help with storm damage recovery. Boone County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Gale Blomenkamp confirmed through text message that Task Force 1 will soon head out to St. Louis, which saw significant damage from storms. St. Louis officials had
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) City of Columbia officials are still assessing the total damage to its recycling operations after an EF-1 tornado tore through the northeast part of the city Sunday evening, destroying the city’s recycling facility and prompting a disaster declaration. The city announced on Sunday that curbside recycling pickup would be paused and drop-off
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Storms moved through parts of Mid-Missouri on Monday, knocking down trees and powerlines.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Hurricane Idalia, which is now a category four storm, nears closer to the southeast coast, volunteers from all over Missouri are heading down to help. To get ahead of the damage, Missouri Public Utility Alliance sent 68 line workers and other personnel from 15 different utilities to Jacksonville, Florida on Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA Mo (KMIZ) Residents around Mid-Missouri are cleaning up after storms rolled through the area. Homes in Osage County, Callaway County, Camden County and Gasconade County were without power Thursday morning. Beginning around 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, residents in Columbia began seeing damage from the storms. A tree fell over onto the side of a
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BOLLINGER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Efforts in Bollinger County have turned from search-and-recovery to cleaning up, following the tornado that hit the town of Marble Hill early Wednesday morning. Five people were reported to have been killed in the tornado: Jimmy Skaggs, 37; Susan Sullivan, 57; Destinee Koenig, 16;, Glenn Burcks, 62; and Micheal McCoy. 18.
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Missouri’s governor plans to visit rural southeast Missouri on Wednesday, where tornadoes killed multiple people overnight.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team forecasted possible severe storms and tornadoes for Friday. Reports of golf-ball-sized hail was seen around Mid-Missouri on Friday afternoon. Homes, cars and businesses were damaged during the hailstorm that rolled through Boone County. Roadways looked covered in snow and ice as hail broke car windows and littered
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Hundreds of Ameren customers in the Mid-Missouri area lost power after storms hit the region on Friday afternoon. Hail was present throughout of the area. The hardest-hit area of Mid-Missouri, in terms of lost power, is Camden County, which has 1,289 customers affected. Morgan County is currently at 831 customers affected,
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COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) A road in Callaway County was closed before noon Monday as contractors replaced electric poles broken by heavy winds overnight. The damage was part of what was left behind by the late-winter storm system that’s been accompanied by spring-like temperatures. About 300 Callaway Electric Cooperative members were dark just before noon as
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the tragedy of Hurricane Ian continues to unfold, volunteers with the Convoy of Hope are stationed in the most impacted areas in Florida giving out food, water and supplies to those in need. Convoy of Hope out of Springfield arrived in Florida a few days ahead of the storm and they have been providing people
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The rescue team was sent to Kentucky at the end of July to help with disastrous flooding.Â
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Storms ripped through Tipton in the early morning hours Friday leaving residents to wake up to damage.
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MARSHALL, Mo. (KMIZ) Severe storms swept through the Midwest Friday causing a roof to be torn off at the Marshall-Odell Municipal Airport. Justin Krause with Servpro was working on the building Saturday and tells ABC 17 News crews that the team is working to restore it by Monday. The private airport has operations still open
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There’s no stopping a severe storm from coming to Mid-Missouri and for many people, storms make them feel powerless and can cause storm anxiety. Arpit Aggarwal, MU Health Care child and adolescent psychiatrist said storm anxiety fears can range from a minor to severe. “For various reasons, sometimes the level of anxiety
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The city of Sedalia was hit with two tornadoes Sunday night according to the National Weather Service.
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Pettis County Sheriff is looking into possible delays with the county’s tornado sirens after some residents reported issues with the timing of when the sirens went off to alert the public. According to a post from Sunday night on Sheriff Brad Anders’s Facebook page, he plans to follow up Monday with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Another round of storms are expected to roll through Mid-Missouri Saturday night and emergency officials want to make sure residents are prepared. Before the storms hit, it is best to put together an emergency kit. Sharon Watson with the American Red Cross, said this should include things like a flashlight, battery-operated radio,
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Get updates on the damage from storms that hit Mid-Missouri on Sunday.
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Stubborn clouds have plagued Mid-Missouri over the last several days thanks to slow moving low pressure that has drifted to our southeast. We begin to see a change in our weather pattern by Friday with this low affecting us less as we approach the weekend. Our upper level pattern with shift with southwest wind flow,
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