Visible satellite imagery

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Note: interval between pictures varies

1845 UTC: morning rain cleared out of IL/MO, leaving outflow boundary/effective warm front in central MO. Wave clouds over southern areas indicate strong cap from hot plume advecting over the top.
1945 UTC: first storms firing along pre-frontal trough associated with advancing jet streak (70 dewpoints and cold front are further west)
2032 UTC: anvils quickly spread far downwind and storms appear sloped downshear
2203 UTC: cumulus forming along cold front near MO/KS border
2215 UTC: southernmost cell in the northern MO cluster looks like it has feeder lines of small cumulus to its southwest along with an outflow boundary appendage that may be from a rear-flank downdraft. This is the Monroe City storm (at an earlier time)
2233 UTC: first storms forming line along cold front in western MO
2303 UTC: overshooting top with Canton/Lima storm is just west of Mississippi River; overshoot with Monroe City storm is further back in MO
2345 UTC: Monroe City storm's overshoot now about to cross the river