COLUMBIA, Mo. — College of Missouri observe and area accomplished a busy weekend of competitors on the Drake Relays and the Rock Chalk Invitational on Saturday.
NOTABLE FINISHES
Atina Kamasi (Novi Unhappy, Serbia) gained the ladies’s javelin with a throw of 45.34 (148-9). All 4 Tigers that competed on this occasion positioned within the prime seven.
Quentin Worley (Riverside, Mo.) gained the boys’s 1,500m with a time of three:56.13, beating his earlier private greatest by a couple of second.
The Tigers had a robust displaying in the remainder of the sphere occasions. Mitchell Weber (Saint Clair, Minn.) and Rece Rowan (Colorado Springs, Colo.) positioned second and third within the males’s discus with throws of 54.17m (177-8) and 53.19m (174-6), respectively. Emily Stauffer (Reinholds, Penn.) positioned second within the ladies’s shot put with a mark of 15.39m (50-6). Sydney Oberdiek (Platte Metropolis, Mo.) additionally positioned second within the ladies’s hammer throw with a mark of 60.93m (199-11).
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Within the night, Royce Fisher (Grain Valley, Mo.) positioned second within the males’s 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 9:14.84. This efficiency improved his private greatest by almost 4 seconds. Ginger Murnieks (Lee’s Summit, Mo.) wrapped up the meet for the Tigers with a second-place end within the ladies’s 5,000m. She completed with a time of 17:16.15.
UP NEXT
The Tigers will take every week off earlier than heading to SEC Out of doors Championships in Oxford, Miss., Thursday, Could 12, by Saturday, Could 14.
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A suspected tornado was spotted moving across the horizon in Potosi, Missouri, on Wednesday, April 2, amid a tornado warning for the area. Footage captured by Jaclyn Rowe from her front porch shows grey clouds hang low as the funnel cloud spins behind a line of trees. “It’s been forming for over five minutes now… and it’s much, much, much bigger than it was,” Rowe can be heard saying in the video. The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding after prolonged periods of heavy rain across east-central and southeast Missouri. Credit: Jaclyn Rowe via Storyful
NEVADA, Mo. — An early morning tornado has left Nevada, Mo., and surrounding communities in Vernon County, Mo., in a wake of destruction. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the area at 7:16 a.m., Wednesday.
Vernon County Sheriff Mike Buehler noted in a social media post that law enforcement and volunteers were working together to assess the damage Wednesday.
“First responders have been deployed and we’ve made a primary pass through of everything at this time,” the post read. “It appears there’s no medical need at this time.”
Buehler added that the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army had beennotified and were en route. A volunteer station has been set up at the Vernon County Fairgrounds.
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The Missouri State Highway Patrol also closed Business US 54 in Nevada Wednesday due to the storm damage and asked motorists to avoid the area while crews completed the cleanup.
The Nevada Police Department has reported power lines down, trees down and damage to buildings.
Some houses in Nevada, like this one, sustained substantial damage from the storm.
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The Nevada Oaks motel, located on U.S. 54 Highway in Nevada, sustained significant damage in Wednesday morning’s storm.
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Weather system heads east
U.S. government forecasters are using a relatively rare “high-risk” designation — the highest category they use — to warn that a major tornado outbreak appears likely Wednesday in an area that’s home to about 2.5 million people.
That area most at risk of catastrophic weather on Wednesday includes parts of west Tennessee including Memphis; northeast Arkansas; the southeast corner of Missouri; and parts of western Kentucky and southern Illinois.
The Norman, Oklahoma-based Storm Prediction Center says that “multiple long-track EF3+ tornadoes, appear likely.” Tornadoes of that magnitude are among the strongest on the Enhanced Fujita scale, used to rate their intensity.
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Historically, the “high-risk” designation has been used sparingly, but it did appear just a couple of weeks ago to warn of a deadly tornado outbreak in mid-March.
Mo. House floor, courtesy Marshall Griffin, Missourinet
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The Missouri House has given first-round approval to a group of bills that will make up next year’s state budget.
The $48 billion proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget covers every aspect of state government – from Medicaid to transportation and education.
State Rep. Keri Ingle, D-Lee’s Summit, expressed concerns that programs to help children will be undercut.
“I want to be really clear that when we say that we care about the children in this state, the budget is how we prove that,” Ingle said to her Republican colleagues. “Your words are shallow.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Darin Chappell, R-Rogersville, said that throwing money at a problem won’t fix it.
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“We should not put the state in a fiscal responsibility that it cannot maintain,” he said.
The House is expected to vote on its spending plan by Thursday, which is $5 billion less than what Gov. Mike Kehoe proposed in his State of the State Address. Once the House passes the budget proposal, the plan heads to the Senate for more number crunching.
