Ellinwood Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 My cousin was at KSTL waiting for his wife to arrive (she got diverted to Kansas City). Got these shots on his mobile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilstormchaser Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Was on that cell earlier that went south of St. Louis. The meso was completely rain wrapped once it crossed the river. I am almost certain there was a tornado in it. When we were in Waterloo, IL (not sure exact time) the inflow winds were very strong (40-45) out of the SE sustained with blinding rain and am thinking that a tornado most likely went 1-2 miles n of me while I was in town. Strongest inflow I have seen for a while. Needless to say we did not stay in town long and once we got east could not make anything out as it was still wrapped in rain. I did not want to get directly in front of the meso because i knew it was rain wrapped and also dark out.. We did not decide to go into MO because of the terrible terrain south of I-70. The sup we were on did have a nice beaver cloud on it. I wished we saw it in daylight. It was illuminated by lightning. On my way back home now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macintosh Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Watching KMOV live feed. Seems that St. Louis airport is quite messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Just had some hail here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1124 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... SOUTHERN SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA... * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. * AT 1118 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR STANLEY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO HOMES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reimer Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Our HD video of the Stratford, OK Tornadoes. Check out the violent motion! http://youtu.be/DCRRhlmlKXY?hd=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Damage reported in Tell City, Indiana where a strong couplet passed over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Damage reported in Tell City, Indiana where a strong couplet passed over. I wouldn't be surprised to see something come out of Brown/Lawerence county tomorrow either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Is weather.gov down for anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1221 AM CDT SAT APR 23 2011 VALID 231200Z - 241200Z ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS PORTIONS CENTRAL TX TO CENTRAL APPALACHIANS... ...SYNOPSIS... IN MID-UPPER LEVELS...BROADLY CYCLONIC FLOW IS FCST OVER MUCH OF WRN CONUS...WITH SWLYS DOWNSTREAM OVER CENTRAL AND ERN STATES. MID-UPPER CYCLONE NOW ANALYZED OVER ERN DAKOTAS/WRN MN IS FCST TO WEAKEN INTO OPEN-WAVE TROUGH NEAR LS BY START OF PERIOD...THEN EJECT/ACCELERATE TOWARD FAR ERN QUE AND LABRADOR BY 24/12Z. WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH CURRENTLY OVER CENTRAL/SRN CA IS FCST TO MOVE GENERALLY EWD ACROSS CENTRAL ROCKIES DURING MIDDAY TO KS BY 24/00Z...WEAKENING THE WHOLE TIME BUT STILL IDENTIFIABLE IN MOST PROGS OVER IL BY END OF PERIOD. W OF CA...MOISTURE CHANNEL IMAGERY INDICATES ROBUST SPEED MAX DIGGING SEWD TOWARD 130W...RIMMED ON N AND NW FRINGES BY PRONOUNCED SWATH OF SUBSIDENCE. THIS FEATURE AND EMBEDDED/MINOR SHORTWAVES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO GEN HEIGHT FALLS AND AMPLIFICATION OF TROUGHING OVER GREAT BASIN DURING LATTER HALF OF PERIOD. AT SFC...COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH NRN-STREAM TROUGH WILL MOVE EWD ACROSS LOWER GREAT LAKES AND ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY REGIONS...WHILE ONLY DRIFTING SEWD THEN BECOMING QUASISTATIONARY FROM OH SWWD OVER OZARKS. SWRN SEGMENT OF THIS FRONT WILL BE ALIGNED PARALLEL TO SRN FRINGE OF STRONGEST MID-UPPER LEVEL WINDS...HOWEVER...CONVECTIVE EFFECTS SHOULD SHUNT EFFECTIVE SFC FRONTAL ZONE SWD OVER N TX...SERN OK...AR AND OH VALLEY REGION. ...CENTRAL TX TO CENTRAL APPALACHIANS... FRONTAL ZONE AND RELATED AGGREGATION OF CONVECTIVE OUTFLOWS WILL BE PRIMARY FOCI FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE THROUGH PERIOD. SFC-BASED TSTMS MAY DEVELOP OVER OH VALLEY PORTION OF OUTLOOK AREA INITIALLY WHERE ELEVATED MIXED-LAYER CAPPING AND RELATED MLCINH WILL BE WEAKEST. WITH SWWD EXTENT ACROSS OZARKS AND RED RIVER REGION...CONVECTION SHOULD FORM THROUGHOUT AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN NODES AND EPISODES. DEEP-LAYER SHEAR WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SVR...INCLUDING BLEND OF SUPERCELL AND BOW MODES...ACROSS ENTIRE CORRIDOR. DEEP-LAYER LAPSE RATES WILL DIMINISH WITH NEWD EXTENT FROM MS RIVER...WITH PEAK AFTERNOON MLCAPE VALUES 2500-3500 J/KG FROM PORTIONS N TX ACROSS SERN OK AND AR. MID-UPPER WINDS PARALLEL TO BOUNDARY WILL SUPPORT FAIRLY RAPID TRANSITION FROM DISCRETE DEVELOPMENT TO QUASI-LINEAR STRUCTURES. HOWEVER...ANY RELATIVELY DISCRETE/EARLY TSTMS...THAT CAN MATURE BEFORE ADDITIONAL BACKBUILDING OCCURS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY...MAY BECOME SUSTAINED SUPERCELLS. A FEW TORNADOES PROBABLY WILL OCCUR...AIDED BY BOUNDARY EFFECTS ON LOCAL SCALES. GREATEST OVERLAP OF LARGE CAPE...RICH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...RELATIVELY LOW LCL AND FAVORABLE LOW-LEVEL SHEAR MAY BE FROM ERN OK ACROSS PORTIONS AR. LARGE HAIL SHOULD BE MOST COMMON THREAT. SIGNIFICANT AND PARTICULARLY DAMAGING HAIL IS MOST PROBABLE FROM MS VALLEY SWWD WHERE DEEP CAPE...STEEP LAPSE RATES ALOFT...AND FAVORABLE SHEAR WILL BE AVAILABLE. DAMAGING DOWNDRAFTS ALSO ARE EXPECTED. OVERALL SVR THREAT WILL DIMINISH AND BECOME MORE FRAGMENTED AFTER 03Z...WITH ONSET OF SFC DIABATIC COOLING AND GREATEST COVERAGE OF OUTFLOW AIR...BUT MAY PERSIST LONGEST INTO EVENING OVER AR/OK/TX PORTIONS OF OUTLOOK. ..EDWARDS/ROGERS.. 04/23/2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 My cousin is at KSTL waiting for his wife to arrive (she got diverted to Kansas City). Got these shots on his mobile: Better for it to destroy150 buses than 1 plane. Well dollar wise that is. Death toll is another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmagan Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Well now www.wright-weather.com 00Z RGEM total rain through 00Z Monday. Nearly 6.00" in southern Illinois. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaPilot Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I was sitting in the cockpit when this went down..we were getting ready to leave and there was little warning in the terminal. No real damage around us but the front part of the old terminal got whacked pretty good. lots of debris on the ramp. First for me, we evacuated into the terminal and everyone was quite surprised that the airport basically took almost a direct hit. Chaos in and around the airport for quite some time. We felt the pressure drop and saw it on the altimeter in the cockpit....I immediately thought tornado once i saw that. Missed us on the Delta gates by maybe less than a 1/4 mile. We got a few pelts of hail on the fuselage during the heaviest weather and felt the airplane get thumped by the gust. Lots of lightning too. When it was over i went outside to check the aircraft and there was lots of small debris on the ramp. Bits of leaves, larger chunks of insulation, roofing, shingles, and some bits of plywood. Immediately knew we had experienced a tornado and was looking at debris picked up from prior destruction. hard to say how strong it was but by what i saw outside the terminal and surrounding I'd guess a strong 1 to possibly EF-2. Interesting night to say the least!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 edit:first air shots I have only seen a few so far looks like at least EF2 damage in the NW STL metro update: new shots looks like EF3....only a few walls left with top story gone of some large houses just west of the airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I was sitting in the cockpit when this went down..we were getting ready to leave and there was little warning in the terminal. No real damage around us but the front part of the old terminal got whacked pretty good. lots of debris on the ramp. First for me, we evacuated into the terminal and everyone was quite surprised that the airport basically took almost a direct hit. Chaos in and around the airport for quite some time. We felt the pressure drop and saw it on the altimeter in the cockpit....I immediately thought tornado once i saw that. Missed us on the Delta gates by maybe less than a 1/4 mile. We got a few pelts of hail on the fuselage during the heaviest weather and felt the airplane get thumped by the gust. Lots of lightning too. When it was over i went outside to check the aircraft and there was lots of small debris on the ramp. Bits of leaves, larger chunks of insulation, roofing, shingles, and some bits of plywood. Immediately knew we had experienced a tornado and was looking at debris picked up from prior destruction. hard to say how strong it was but by what i saw outside the terminal and surrounding I'd guess a strong 1 to possibly EF-2. Interesting night to say the least!!!! Now that's a great first hand account, thanks, man this board gets the scoops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 edit:first air shots I have only seen a few so far looks like at least EF2 damage in the NW STL metro update: new shots looks like EF3....only a few walls left with top story gone of some large houses just west of the airport Between the STL storm last night, and the Raleigh storm last Saturday, what a weird week. Only the start of an active period too. Hope all on this board and the gen pop. Stay safe.ncant remember the last time 2 cities, 1 major, being hot directly by tornados in the same season, let alone, within a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 St louis per live air shots looks like as rather long continous path of F0-F2, isolated area of solid Ef3..sveral large houses most walls are missing and top story gone part of roof torn off of the airport dmage path pretty wide in some places edit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.B. LaForce Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Well, first chase of the season for me. Left Mount Pleasant at 10am, and made it down to St. Louis before the supercell got there. We followed it a little ways (right before it tightened back up again and went through St. Louis). Ultimately the road network as well as hills and trees, and nightfall pretty much ended the chase. With the road network like it was, and fairly decent storm motions of ~40mph, they were a little tricky to keep up with. Still a great first chase to work out the kinks, and get back into the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtRosen Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Havent seen this posted anywhere... The tornado blew a Southwest 737 away from the gate (boy is it unlucky to be a Southwest 737 these days). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 STL Tornado spin off thread http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/17542-the-lambert-field-stl-metro-tornado/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 From the SPC wind reports... *** 1 INJ *** 4 CAMPING TRAILERS BLOWN OVER AT KUHLS CAMPGROUND ... TREE FELL ON ONE CAMPER AND CUT IT IN HALF. Glad it wasn't a fatality... tough bastard apparently. Like that cyborg from 'Aliens' South and east of Lawton, OK received 3-5" of rain last night along with large hail. For some places, the first rain in 2 months. Areas north and west were still left high and dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMIweather Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 No severe weather here in Norman, but I did get some nice photos of the storms that formed just to my south last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Yeah, there were some pretty awesome mammatus clouds last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMIweather Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Yeah, there were some pretty awesome mammatus clouds last night. They were some of the best ones I've seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Beau again NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0066.110423T1920Z-110423T1945Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 220 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ALEXANDER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... WESTERN MASSAC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... NORTHERN BALLARD COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... NORTHWESTERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 245 PM CDT. * AT 220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOUND CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... MOUND CITY... MOUNDS... BARLOW... LA CENTER... METROPOLIS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 231 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BALLARD COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... WESTERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 300 PM CDT. * AT 224 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER FAR EASTERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY...OR NEAR WICKLIFFE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... LA CENTER... BARLOW... WICKLIFFE... LOVELACEVILLE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 It looks like we might have a situation this Sat. afternoon and evening of tornadoes developing within a line as it moves eastward from southern IL into KY in the area affected by the tornado watch. Perhaps somewhat similar to last Tues. April 19, although I don't expect anywhere near that number of reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Don't come out of the basement yet, Beau. Stay safe BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 250 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MASSAC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTH CENTRAL POPE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... NORTHWESTERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 315 PM CDT. * AT 247 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF METROPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... METROPOLIS... BROOKPORT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 New tornado watch: URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 186 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 230 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA WESTERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 230 PM UNTIL 700 PM CDT. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 40 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY TO 105 MILES EAST OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6). REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DISCUSSION...A PERSISTENT MCS HAS BECOME MORE ORGANIZED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL TRACK EAST-NORTHEASTWARD ALONG REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. THIS SETUP SUGGESTS THE POTENTIAL FOR BOW ECHO DEVELOPMENT WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE. ALSO...FAVORABLE LOW LEVEL SHEAR AND CONVERGENCE ALONG BOUNDARY WILL POSE THE RISK OF A FEW TORNADOES ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE MCS...AND WITH ISOLATED CELLS AHEAD OF THE MAIN LINE. Tornado probs are 60/30 on it (same as the max probs yesterday) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 pretty strong couplet just NE of metropolis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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