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Anyone from the Springfield, MO. area? It's been a long freaking day... Woke up this morning to sirens going off and tree limbs flying through the air. Every place I've been to within a 30 mile radius today has things destroyed.

Check this wiki link about what happened today: May 2009 derecho series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (look at the section "May 8: Plains to Ohio Valley derecho").

Another major severe weather event developed early on May 8 over southwestern Kansas. It quickly formed into a major progressive derecho which tracked across the central Plains, the Ozarks and into the Ohio Valley.[5] Several tornadoes also developed, primarily in the Springfield, Missouri area where damage was reported.[6] A moderate risk of severe weather was issued primarily due to the wind threat.[7] Two people were killed near Poplar Bluff, Missouri when winds knocked a tree into their car. Another Missouri resident suffered a fatal heart attack after he was blown away from his home and thrown into a building. A woman was killed in southeastern Kansas after her mobile home was blown off its foundation.[8] Eventually, the storm developed a tropical cyclone-like structure, with a well-defined eye feature.[9] In addition, winds were measured as high as 106 miles per hour (171 km/h) in Carbondale, Illinois.[10] Another death occurred in Dallas County, Missouri from an EF2 tornado, and another from an unconfirmed tornado in Kirksville, Kentucky.[11]
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The storm seriously looked like a hurricane on radar. Had a 10-25 mile wide eye and everything.
 


I found this radar image (you can clearly see the eye) of the storm about 30-60 minutes after it passed Springfield and started to "break up". This article has more images.


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We're going up to a place near Vienna next week. The Gasconade should be running good.
 
You are right, I looked at the weather map yesterday and saw that hurricane pattern. I have never seen anything like it before
 
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