Tornado Damage in Monett on the 12th.
It was a wet month for most of the region. Springfield tallied up 7.14″ for the month, putting us 2.57 above normal. A large portion of the Ozarks came in between 7.50 and 8.50″ including much of Greene, Lawrence, Dade, Cedar, St. Clair, Hickory, Polk and Dallas counties. All of the Ozarks, and indeed nearly all of the state of Missouri, had above normal precipitation. The main waves of rain came on the 9-10th, 13-16th and 19-20th. Rain was
It terms of extreme weather, the month was characterized by a tornadic supercell early on the morning of the 13th. The heavy rains were a part of the day of the tornadoes too and in fact the period from the 12-16th was quite soggy. The rainfall on May 19-20 caused the most problems as it occurred after the other main rains of the month and hence fell on nearly saturated ground. A great summary of this rain can be viewed here.
Temperatures averaged very close to normal and were generally not extreme at all. No nineties occurred, the hottest day was 87 on the 27th which did begin a run of solid eighty-degree days defining the warmest stretch of the month.
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