Author Topic: First ground zero storm outbreak for STL 2014 [The big one is coming]  (Read 3923 times)

I got a ton of marble sized hail. It actually accumulated lol
Darn it, you were right. I hope your predictions are wrong for tomorrow about tornadoes!



White space + choppy yellow/orange mass inside it = system that went through today
Red/blue bumpy lines = the front system that jacked up the storms from the south today and will power overhead tomorrow.
Purple lines = the part of the frontal system that will spawn tomorrow's storms
Orange scribbles = where the storm is going to go
The red X that is buried under orange scribbles = St Louis

I hope everything is ok for you, XR. Have any of you been through a tornado before? If so, what was it like? (PS: I have never been through one).
Ah, Caribou the Considerate

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

Update:

Watching a churning mass of hard core thunderstorms that are going through Kansas and western Missouri. They seem to be heading northeast and may miss the area altogether, but I'm noticing the lower cells seem to have an eastward favor to them from the associated low pressure system. If any hit the area, expect heavy rain and large hail assuming they don't weaken. At night, there usually isn't much warm air aloft and there is naturally going to be more heat around the west curvature of the earth because the sun was heating it more recently. The storms may very well weaken anyway.

I'd give a 40% chance as of right now that the already existing storms will clip the area, with higher chances in the northern counties. If it does hit, it will be in the wee hours of the morning. I don't have speed readings currently, but I'd roughly estimate 2am-3am.

These storms are worse than the ones that came through today. There are more of them (approx. 10 cells compared to today's three), the hail cores are more prominent, most cells already have warnings on them, and to top it off, there was a tornado watch slapped onto it.

Crap, and neither of our cars are parked in our garage.

XR, can you PM me a pic of your storm car?

time to start up my daily weather forecast thing again! :D

XR, can you PM me a pic of your storm car?

Nah I don't have one unless I used one of our own. I also don't have my license yet. When I am out in the car though, I can usually tell where the juicy parts are. I've seen wall clouds and derecho fronts by either moving to the right place or directing parents where to go.

Wow, stuffty weather over there. Lucky for me as the worst I can get is some frozen tennis balls raining down.

Just got back from the being in the basement for the past 25 minutes.

Confirmed tornado touchdown in University City about an hour and a half ago. Reports of debris in the road and a possible gas leak. Looks like I was right again. I can also say that it isn't over yet.

I saw a car that likely slid off the slippery road. I saw a Mazda Protégé sitting in a field with the lights and engine still on surrounded by mud and tire tracks. It seems to have jumped off a 10ft embankment.
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I saw a car that likely slid off the slippery road. I saw a Mazda Protégé sitting in a field with the lights and engine still on surrounded by mud and tire tracks. It seems to have jumped off a 10ft embankment.
hope those people are all right

Update:

There are tornadic supercells forming in southwest Missouri and a steady supply line of more being manufactured in Oklahoma. They are using the classic travel route: northeast up Interstate 44 which tracks directly through St Louis. Anyone living in central or northeast Missouri and west and central Ilinois better be ready.

The sky has been so dark all day with recurring severe thunderstorms that even at high noon, it still looked to be 8:30pm. I was in the cafeteria eating lunch today and about 30 or more kids jumped up and ran for the windows. "I wonder what they're looking at?" I pull out a radar and realize its another squall. There was a loud bang and the lights flashed a few times. All the internet routers were paralyzed by lightning leaving only the WiFi.

end of the world 2014 confirmed.