Front pushes east through Mid-Missouri
A powerful cold front is moving through Mid-Missouri, bringing with it storms with damaging winds.
Watch a 1:30 p.m. update with Chief Meteorologist Jessica Quick in the player below.
The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch that includes Boone, Cole, Callaway and other Mid-Missouri counties. The watch is in effect until 6 p.m.
What's changed?
We've had a few ingredients in place for some stronger storms, but the big one we've been missing was instability.
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The broken cloud cover has allowed enough sunshine to filter through to change that this morning. As these storms roll into Mid-Missouri, they likely won't lose a lot of steam.
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Damaging straight-line winds still appear to be the primary threat, but a spin-up tornado can't be ruled out. The window of opportunity is still into the early afternoon before all of this moves east.
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