Moderate Risk for Missouri Radar Hole

UPDATE: At 3:30 PM Central, nothing was happening yet but the government noted that initiation is expected within about an hour.

ORIGINAL POST:

The government's Storm Prediction Center has issued a Moderate Risk for severe storms in the Missouri Radar Hole today:

While southwest Kentucky is covered by at least five NEXRAD Doppler radars, the 124 nautical mile coverage of severe weather products such as tornadic and rotational detection leaves the Columbia and Jefferson City areas of Missouri on the very edge of potential detection.

Missouri Radar Coverage Overlap

Tonight you'll be switching between Saint Louis, Kansas City and Springfield Missouri local radars fighting for a realistic look at the storms (remember at 124nm out, the radar beam is at a nearly-useless 15,000 feet up in the air).

The AccuWeather.com risk area covers most of Missouri and northwest Arkansas.

Meteorologist John Kocet says in our Weather Headlines (PREMIUM | PRO)

For more information on NEXRAD data and coverage limitations, check out this really old educational module that I wrote.