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Live camera footage showed raging waters at Roaring River following severe storms that swept the southwest region of Missouri Wednesday. This is a major, major flood today, said Paul Spurgeon, Roaring River Hatchery manager. We got about three inches in 40 minutes.
The canyon directly behind the fish hatchery pushed a wave of water and flushed through there pretty hard, Spurgeon said. It looked like it was still coming up, he added. When the water comes down and gets us from behind like that, it sweeps over the hatchery a little bit.
The main concern is the hatchery building, which rests on the lowest area and is full of fingerlings, or baby trout.
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Despite flooding and wide-sweeping wind damage across the Ozarks, no tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down Wednesday, a meteorologist says.
Megan Terry, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the office in Springfield has been receiving reports of wind damage, but have not specifically verified tornadoes as of Wednesday afternoon.
Reports of wind damage have come in from several places, including Branson, areas near Silver Dollar City, Highlandville and Sparta. We did have tornado warnings extended farther eastward, so we may be getting additional reports of wind damage from there, Terry said in a phone interview.
The National Weather Service encourages residents who have experienced Wednesday s storm damage to submit reports and photos to the organization s Facebook page. Meteorologists need to know: when it happened, the worst of the damage and as precise location as you can give them.