Thermal Couplet detection prior to spotter funnel report

An interesting thermal couplet case not within the assigned WFO emulations. At 2202 UTC a thermal couplet was detected right near the border of northeastern KS/northwestern MO within the EAX CWA. At that time, no LSRs indicated any severe reports other than flooding. Approximately 15 minutes later a report came in of a funnel cloud via a spotter network. As an additional note, there is currently no severe thunderstorm warning for the storm with the detected thermal couplet. Perhaps this would be a good case of increasing forecaster confidence for warning with the associated thermal couplet detection?

Now 2239 UTC, and the cell that produced the thermal couplet is now tornado warned