First ground zero storm outbreak for STL 2014 [The big one is coming]

[XR-7]

Always exciting for me.  St Louis is locked on target with good potential for a major severe weather outbreak on Thursday afternoon/evening.

Risks include (for Thursday)

- Multiple rotating supercells
- Large hail in excess of two inches
- Straight line wind gusts in excess of 58mph
- Strong, long track tornadoes of great magnitude (EF2 or higher)
- Repeated, often cloud-to-ground lightning
- Raging downpours with flooding

Timeline of events:

Tonight

Wednesday

Thursday

Hit and miss thunderstorms

Squall line at 11am-12pm

Large rotating supercell thunderstorms

Rain

Hail to the size of quarters

Hail as big as softballs

Very slight possibility of pea-sized hail

Strong winds in excess of 58mph

Strong wind

Minimal possibility of weak tornadoes

Large, extremely dangerous tornadoes

To a storm chaser such as myself, it'll be the best day ever.  Still hoping that nothing gets destroyed and people don't get hurt though.

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[Dino5678]

EF2 or higher?!?!

Thats a really fun Thursday in St Louis.

[XR-7]

EF2 or higher?!?!

Thats a really fun Thursday in St Louis.

Lambert International Airport was directly hit by an EF3 tornado a couple years back.  It stopped air traffic for a couple of days at least.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGtumnBej2Q

[Zanaran2]

[jonnyman5656]

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USMO0787
look at Apr 3

Where did you get you info.?

[Theepicman]

If you hit your head on something say

"What a rush"

Hopefully no one gets picked up by a tornado and gets slammed onto the ground.

[Renekar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Am4cHMBKM
rip

[Bomb Kirby]

-snip-

that's horrible

but I can't stop laughing

[Candy Apple]

lucky

id love to have some serious storm activity but no
loving sun

[Bomb Kirby]

Why would you want serious storm activity?

[Candy Apple]

Why would you want serious storm activity?

Its a rush. I lived in a hurricane zone for a while,and I loved it.

[jonnyman5656]

Profile says XR is 17. Yeah like his parents will let him chase tornadoes.
And it is still April 1st so...

[carolcat]

i'm like 3 hours south of st louis and i hear we're supposed to get some stormy weather on thursday. i have to do a color guard that night though for baseball ugh.

[Renderman]

wat
all ive been getting is rain
no hail or whatever else

[XR-7]

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USMO0787
look at Apr 3

Where did you get you info.?

My own predictions + meteorologist help from online.  The front that is coming for Wednesday is running through Utah right now.  The Thursday one will be forming off the coast of California tonight.

wat
all ive been getting is rain
no hail or whatever else

I had rain and a little thunder today, but that's it.