COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Drivers out on the roads Sunday may have seen several flood notifications on their phones throughout the morning. Heavy rain and severe storms moved through parts of Mid-Missouri throughout the day, prompting several flash flood warnings and raising concerns about dangerous travel conditions. While driving to Sedalia Saturday afternoon, an ABC 17
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Missouri has started the spring season with rainfall totals just under 2″ above normal for the first three weeks of March. This wet weather has erased the rain deficit recorded during a drier than normal winter. The Climate Prediction Center expects the warming trend to continue, forecasting a warmer than normal spring for the region.
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Missouri recorded the third most tornado warnings in the United States in 2025. Researchers at the Missouri S&T Wind Hazard Mitigation Lab are now analyzing damage from the state’s most prolific storms to better understand the impact of tornadic winds on buildings. The 2025 tornado season began on March 14, a night when wildfires and
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Hail is consistently one of the costliest severe weather events, causing billions of dollars in damage annually to cars, homes, and crops in the United States. One of the places it commonly occurs is right here in Central Missouri. Over the past 15 years, there have been over 5000 reports of hail from unique storms
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Lightning all starts because of rising warm air. This rising air produces the storm clouds that are needed for lightning in the first place. As the storm clouds form, the ice particles and water droplets collide inside the cloud. As this collision occurs, it causes positive and negative charges, and after enough charges are produced,
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Did you know you could go skiing in Missouri this winter? At Hidden Valley Ski Resort in Eureka, Missouri just outside of St. Louis, crews work to make that winter dream a reality. General Manager, Jesse Kimes, says one of the struggles of running a ski resort in Missouri is getting folks to remember that
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team is preparing to provide you with important and timely updates as the impacts of the winter season approach. While some team members will be tracking from the studio, our other Meteorologists will be utilizing the ABC 17 Stormtracker 360. This vehicle will allow the team to provide you with
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As the winter season approaches, the likelihood of waking up to ice on your driveway or on the roads is on the rise. Ice melts are the most common solution to this problem, but it is good to know how different ice melts work and what might be best for you. The two most popular
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2025 was a very active weather year in Mid-Missouri, from above-average snowfall by winter’s end to claiming the number three spot for most tornado warnings nationwide. On the last day of November 2024, Columbia picked up a hefty 3 inches of snow that made for an interesting Mizzou-Arkansas football game, and set the tone for
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We’re coming off of a snowier and slightly cooler than normal winter that started with about 3″ of snow in December for a total of 18.2″ by the end of February. Despite the above average snowfall, our total liquid precipitation came in about 1.5″ below normal, allowing current drought conditions to hold as we head
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In-home safe rooms and storm shelters are becoming a popular option across the Plains and Midwest as spring storms are becoming more frequent. Roger Mertensmeyer started a personal storm shelter company in Boone County called Protect in Place back in 2018. His experience with the Columbia Fire Department opened his eyes to the need for
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Lightning at a baseball game or other outdoor events, catching people off guard, is a sight too common it seems. It’s something we seem to see on social media each spring. Chris Vagasky, a member of the National Lightning Safety Council, says he’s seen it himself. “It never fails that I’ll be sitting at home,
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The first blast of cold air has visited Mid-Missouri, setting the stage for the winter ahead. We’re coming off a warm winter 2023-24 with less snow than normal. Columbia recorded about 8.5 inches of snow and we tied for the least snowy February on record. Despite the warm and less snowy winter, spring and summer
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Cold air is coming and fall decorations are being replaced by Christmas lights, trees are starting to look bare, and birds are becoming fewer as the days get shorter. Nature always gives us signs of the changing seasons, but can plants and animals really predict the weather? “You said maybe the crickets starting to chirp
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Meteorology is a relatively new field, which means new weather terms pop up and spread like “megafires ” (that’s a new term coming out to describe intense and fast-growing wildfires fueled by climate change). In winter, you’ve probably also heard the term “polar vortex” more commonly in recent years to refer to cold air outbreaks. While
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After a rare three years in a La Nina global pattern, we saw a complete flip in the jet stream pattern this past winter, leading to warmer and drier weather.
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Watch the ABC 17 Stormtrack Severe Weather Special live here.
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Severe Weather Special airs Friday at 6:30 p.m. on ABC 17 and 9:30 p.m. on FOX 22.
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Even if you are spared from Mother Nature’s direct impacts this spring, there’s an increasing chance you’ll deal with a power outage.
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With severe weather season quickly approaching, some confusion arises over the difference between a severe watch and a severe warning.
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