I live in the general area of these storms and there were funnels. Two miles from me, as the crow flies, there was a touchdown and one fatality. December storms, while rare can and do happen. In 2010 on NYE, the temperature was almost 80 and there was a tornado that afternoon in StL, MO that destroyed an entire neighborhood. Certainly rare, but not out of the question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEWi1E4Tsk0 I'm not sure how this got to my youtube selections but he had several storm chasers get funnel footage during lightening strikes last night. I live in East MO between the bootheel and St.Louis. It barely rained here

At least in my area. Can't say about other areas, like Mayfield.

Been petrified of storms my whole life. I know when it's actually pretty bad outside, and last night it wasn't bad at all.

And why were the alarms screwy? We never had a siren go off in my area. My aunt a county over did. My phone did an alarm, Mom's didn't, Aunt's alarm was delayed and had no audio. Our alarms get weekly tests. Why the screw up? Apparently either when this line of storms began, or with the line just before it, no alarms went off in the area where another tornado hit.

For the record, not saying there were no tornadoes at all. Just that the call on 'Tornado warning' in my area was totally unnecessary and unfounded. There were no funnels in my area, or just south of my area where my aunt lives.