Stoddard County, Missouri - According to the Weather Channel we are in uncharted circumstances noting that the U.S. has not had one tornado during the month of March.  This is quite unusual for our area; however the first decent threat of severe thunderstorms this spring is in play Tuesday and Wednesday as two low-pressure systems ripple northeastward along a cold front from the southern Plains to the mid-Mississippi Valley.

Here is a look at the daily details:

Tuesday: Scattered severe storms should develop by late afternoon from far eastern Kansas and western Missouri to northeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. This broken line of storms should then push east into the evening toward the mid-Mississippi Valley. Damaging wind gusts and large hail appear to be the primary threats, though a tornado cannot be ruled out.

Wednesday: Scattered severe thunderstorms should again break out by mid-late afternoon, this time near the intersection of a bulge in a surface dryline and cold front in Oklahoma, north Texas and southeast Kansas. During the evening, this activity is expected to form a squall line and push across central and southern Missouri and at least northern Arkansas. Damaging winds and large hail will again be the primary threats, but a tornado cannot be ruled out.

Always be prepared for severe weather!

Stoddard County, Missouri - The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky has issued a Flood Warning for Stoddard Coun

• * FLOOD WARNING FOR... RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI... CARTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI... BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI... STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI..

• UNTIL 615 PM CDT
• * AT 1219 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN... AND ANOTHER INCH OR SO IS EXPECTED DURING THE COURSE OF THE AFTERNOON.
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
• EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... AS WELL AS FARM AND COUNTRY ROADS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES.

Stoddard County, Missouri - The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky has issued a Flood Watch in effect from Thursday Evening through Saturday morning for Stoddard County, Missouri.

• THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
• * FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTHWEST INDIANA... WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS... IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... ALEXANDER... EDWARDS... FRANKLIN... GALLATIN... HAMILTON... HARDIN... JACKSON... JEFFERSON... JOHNSON... MASSAC... PERRY IL... POPE... PULASKI... SALINE... UNION IL... WABASH... WAYNE IL... WHITE AND WILLIAMSON. IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA... GIBSON... PIKE... POSEY... SPENCER... VANDERBURGH AND WARRICK. IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... BALLARD... CALDWELL... CALLOWAY... CARLISLE... CHRISTIAN... CRITTENDEN... DAVIESS... FULTON... GRAVES... HENDERSON... HICKMAN... HOPKINS... LIVINGSTON... LYON... MARSHALL... MCCRACKEN... MCLEAN... MUHLENBERG... TODD... TRIGG... UNION KY AND WEBSTER. IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... BOLLINGER... BUTLER... CAPE GIRARDEAU... CARTER... MISSISSIPPI... NEW MADRID... PERRY MO... RIPLEY... SCOTT... STODDARD AND WAYNE MO.
• * FROM THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING
• * AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER THE QUAD STATE REGION LATE THIS WEEK AS A NEARLY STATIONARY PATTERN DEVELOPS OVER THE REGION. WIDESPREAD RAIN AMOUNTS OF 1.5 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE BEFORE ALL IS SAID AND DONE SATURDAY MORNING. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS CANNOT BE RULED OUT... AS THIS SYSTEM WILL BE LADEN WITH MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO.
• * PLEASE MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP. THIS RAINFALL WILL ALSO LIKELY AGGRAVATE ONGOING RIVER FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION.
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
• A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON CURRENT FORECASTS.

Stoddard County, Missouri - The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky has issued a Special Weather Statement....DENSE FOG!

• ... LOCALLY DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING...
• THOSE OF YOU TRAVELING THROUGH THE QUAD STATE REGION WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY DUE TO AREAS OF DENSE FOG THIS EVENING.
• WARM SOUTHERLY BREEZES ARE BRINGING ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES TO THE REGION. THIS WARM AIR IS MOVING OVER THE RELATIVELY COLD GROUND. THIS IS CAUSING THE AIR NEAR THE SURFACE TO BECOME QUITE SATURATED... LEADING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOG. THE FOG WILL BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES AND MAY VARY RAPIDLY FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER.
• BE PREPARED FOR RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING ON ROADWAYS. MAKE SURE THAT YOU KEEP YOUR HEADLIGHTS ON LOW... SIGNAL YOUR INTENTIONS WELL AHEAD OF TIME... SLOW DOWN AND LEAVE PLENTY OF ROOM BETWEEN YOURSELF AND OTHER DRIVERS ON THE ROAD.
• AS RAIN CONTINUES TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION... VISIBILITIES DUE TO THE FOG WILL LIKELY IMPROVE SOME. DRIVERS WILL THEN NEED TO BE WATCHFUL FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

Stoddard County, Missouri - The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning!! 

• ... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM WEDNESDAY TO 6 AM CST THURSDAY...
• THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW... SLEET... AND FREEZING RAIN WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM WEDNESDAY TO 6 AM CST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
• * TIMING: RAIN SHOULD BEGIN CHANGING OVER TO FREEZING RAIN... SLEET AND SNOW FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST STARTING EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE CHANGEOVER TO SNOW WILL PROGRESS SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE CHANGEOVER TO SLEET AND SNOW IS NOT EXPECTED TO OCCUR UNTIL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF THE OHIO RIVER. THE SNOW WILL THEN TAPER OFF FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
• * MAIN IMPACT: BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING... SNOWFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM FOUR TO SIX INCHES GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MOUNT CARMEL ILLINOIS TO PERRYVILLE TO VAN BUREN TO DONIPHAN MISSOURI. SOUTH AND EAST OF THAT LINE SIX TO EIGHT INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. AN EIGHT TO TEN INCH SWATH OF SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE GENERALLY TWENTY-FIVE MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM NEW MADRID MISSOURI TO CALHOUN KENTUCKY. AS MUCH AS ONE INCH OF SLEET MAY FALL PRIOR TO THE SNOW... PARTICULARLY ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY AND FAR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.
• * OTHER IMPACTS: THIS MUCH SNOW AND SLEET WILL PRODUCE TREACHEROUS CONDITIONS AND CAUSE SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL ISSUES ACROSS THE REGION. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. CONFIDENCE IS HIGH IN THE OUTCOME OF THIS STORM SYSTEM SO MAKE PREPARATIONS NOW. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE ADJUSTMENTS TO SNOWFALL TOTALS.
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
• A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET... AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

Stoddard County, Missouri - The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky has issued a Winter Storm Watch for Wednesday morning through late Wednesday night.

• ... WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
• THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
• * TIMING: RAIN SHOULD BEGIN CHANGING OVER TO SLEET AND SNOW FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST STARTING EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING WITH THE HIGHEST ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
• * MAIN IMPACT: BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING SNOWFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM FOUR TO SIX INCHES GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ROCKPORT INDIANA TO DEXTER MISSOURI WITH SIX TO TEN INCHES POSSIBLE SOUTH AND EAST OF THAT LINE.
• * OTHER IMPACTS: THIS MUCH SNOWFALL WILL CAUSE NUMEROUS TRAVEL ISSUES ACROSS THE REGION. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS NOW FOR THIS UPCOMING WINTER STORM AND STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES AND THE POSSIBLE UPGRADE TO A WINTER STORM WARNING.
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
• A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW... SLEET... OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT WOULD GREATLY IMPACT TRAVEL. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS. THIS WATCH WILL BE UPGRADED TO A WARNING IF WINTER STORM CONDITIONS BECOME MORE CERTAIN.

Stoddard County, Missouri - The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky has issued a Special Weather Statement with regards to significant snow accumulations possible mid-week!

• ANOTHER WINTER STORM POSES THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE QUAD STATE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT. IN ITS WAKE... TEMPERATURES WILL RAPIDLY DROP BELOW FREEZING EARLY WEDNESDAY.
• AS THE COLD AIR RUSHES IN BEHIND THE FRONT... RAIN IS FORECAST TO CHANGE OVER TO A PERIOD OF SLEET BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO SNOW WEDNESDAY MORNING. BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE IN THE FORM OF SNOW ACROSS ALL BUT SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY... WHERE THE TRANSITION FROM SLEET TO SNOW MAY NOT OCCUR UNTIL AFTERNOON. THE SNOW IS FORECAST TO TAPER OFF FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
• LESS THAN IDEAL CONFIDENCE IN A DAY 3 EVENT PRECLUDES AN EXACT FORECAST OF SNOW AMOUNTS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER... CONFIDENCE IS GROWING THAT MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW MAY RESULT IN POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS ALL OR PART OF THE QUAD STATE REGION WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CONTINUE TO MONITOR LATER FORECASTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER WEATHER EVENT.