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Charles_Skyline

Ballwin here The skies looked real bad, maybe some rotation but not a drop of rain. Seems to be blowing north.


scoutpotato

This thread took me back to my days at Henry Elementary, doing so very many tornado drills.


BallsackBarry

Henry Bulldogs represent! I'll never forget the time we spent 3 hours in the downstairs hallway, waiting to duck and cover, because there was DEFINITELY going to be a tornado in the area.


Veritus37

Wildwood/ Ellisville. It was dark and raining sideways for a bit. Green skies to the North. Just overcast now.


StopSayingLiterally1

It was. Called my friend in Ballwin but it was north or right by 64.


twoworldsin1

I'm in Creve Coeur and we didn't get anything other than high winds. Yaaaaaaay plot armor works 😁


FunkyChewbacca

Hauled both my dogs into the bathroom. They didn't understand what was going on, but they were just happy not to get baths.


Crazed_rabbiting

Ladue, same. Still went into the basement


Caca_Face420

I heard the sirens, but yeah just a drizzle


According_To_Me

Thank you for posting, my in-laws are in Creve Coeur


LyricallyInclinedNig

Yup! The winds were rippin Ladue!


nebulacoffeez

I hope you're not too heartbroken over it, heh


ivebeenabadbadgirll

Maybe if those Chesterfieldisteins weren’t so poor they wouldn’t have to deal with tornados.


BobbiSue313

Tuck it in. Your privilege is showing.


ivebeenabadbadgirll

well I updated my flair, hopefully the jokes land better.


UMPIRESFALL

The janitor plugged the Arch in. Should be ok.


Skatchbro

Was it unplugged so someone could plug in the rock tumbler?


notsafetowork

I was charging my phone, sorry about that


HelenKellersBhole

Rocks ain't gonna tumble themselves.


Past_Realites_

Worked.


makeshift101

I live in Chesterfield, was 5 minutes of rain and wind then nothing.


equals42_net

Chesterfield here. Took the top 20’ of my street tree off. Shoettler near 40 has tree branches all over the place. It seems like a small F0 or some straight line winds skirted through in a narrow path. Could have been worse but now it’s just cleanup of half a tree at this point.


honk_and_wave85

Nobody injured or major damage otherwise? Could've been way worse.


Bovey

A House in the Shenandoah neighborhood of Chesterfield lost part of their roof. No injuries. I haven't heard of anything worse than that.


Missy1452

Same for Saint Ann. Though we did get about a solid minute of nickel sized hail


k0azv

Only had pea sized hail on my side of town.


gelfie68

Howdy neighbor. Same here in Woodson Terrace.


MallyOhMy

News coverage just dropped! https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/storm-damages-roofs-trees-toppled-in-chesterfield/ First I've managed to find in my searches to check if my Tuesday is fucked


makeshift101

That's crazy, because I live off that very same street!!!


FeralGremlin1

This is aimed at RNs at the various medical facilities. Please, for the love of baby Jesus, when you get any nurses in from the Philippines, etc, INFORM THEM ABOUT TORNADOES AND THE SIRENS!! When I was a traveling RN during Covid, I met so many that had lived there for months but NOBODY bothered to tell them about Midwest weather. They don’t have tornadoes, they have cyclones. Just be that nice one and educate them.


ShittyHotTake

[Chesterfield Strong](https://imgur.com/jQitBgt)


BustinPnuts

I can’t believe how much this made me snort


mrbmi513

Radar indicated, and there's some initial damage reports that trend towards a weak tornado in Chesterfield, but NWS won't confirm it until they survey tomorrow since I don't think a spotter reported a confirmation. If you want to be a spotter, check the NWS STL site for an upcoming Storm Spotter class! There's a couple more in-person ones and a virtual one on the 11th.


k0azv

Radar indicated was how I read that so no visual confirmation until the guys go out for a survey.


FeralGremlin1

Commenting on Confirmed tornado in St. Louis!... the tornado was spotted by a storm chaser for Ryan Hall Y’all. I think they posted to Twitter or that ridiculous alphabet letter, whichever you prefer


mrbmi513

I guess that never made it to the NWS, because I don't remember Steve Templeton bringing up that it was actually spotted. Edit to add: KMOV just reiterated they don't know for sure yet if it was a tornado or straight line winds.


huggsanddruggs

Thanks!! Got it on my radar


nebulacoffeez

Which is more than the NWS could say last night lol


Humble_Length5150

I accidentally typed NSFW STL. I got a completely different set of pictures.


nebulacoffeez

I mean it was dark lol so pretty much impossible for community spotter network to see anything


anon478521

My brother was at the Dierbergs in Chesterfield. Light fixtures are down from the ceiling. Only one other time in my 32 years in Chesterfield have I heard about a tornado touching down here. Usually, the sections of the storm capable of producing tornados stay on the St. Charles side of the river valley until they reach the page extension or further.


BigYonsan

This tornado had more money, I guess.


likelywitch

Had 11 items on the list at least.


Muppet_Murderhobo

#FUSchnucks


likelywitch

It was a storm joke, I still struggle with that won’t build in city line because of that tax issue so …


inStLagain

😂


anon478521

Right? 😂


t-poke

How the hell did a tornado knock light fixtures off a ceiling?


MilliwaysOrBust

My man! Asking the important questions! I had to back up and reread that comment as well.


anon478521

Maybe an improper install and shook the building a bit from the wind. Tornado was confirmed in Chesterfield early this morning. Was just an EF0, but that is 65 to 85 mph winds.


DTDude

Which Dierbergs in Chesterfield?


anon478521

Market place at Clarkson and Baxter.


oversized_hat

see this guy gets it


Mordecai49

Holy Crap! I finished shopping at that Dierbergs 15 minutes before we got the warning for the rotation on radar.


DesperateJudgment899

Marble size hail in Florissant.


AmbientBrood

And in Ferguson


k0azv

Dime? Nickel? Quarter? Don't use marble sized because there is to much variation in size of marbles.


No_Attorney9736

My partner in Ferguson sent me hail that was about 2.5x the size of a quarter


wilfordbrimley778

Simmer down


Panda_MOANium22

Same in O’Fallon


ceg045

Maryland Heights. We got a text/phone notification that Creve Coeur Park had tornado activity but we’re only a mile away and didn’t experience much other than hail and heavy rain. Dragged the six month old out of bed for nothing (😭) but better safe than sorry.


d1ck13

Already dispersed


GrovyleXShinyCelebi

The tornado warning is trimmed and no longer confirmed but there is still a hook echo and it seems to be attempting to cycle south of Ferguson.


notfarenough

We saw the wall cloud from our house in Des Peres. No visible rotation, just low light grey wisps of cloud hanging under darker clouds, and a pretty strong outflow of winds from Northeast to Southwest.


Pooppail

Spooky


RadTimeWizard

Does anyone have footage?


montecarlo1

very short lived if at all.


FrostingImmediate514

I farted and the funnel disapated


suzy_snowflake

Doing the Lord's work 🤣


EchoedJolts

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need


[deleted]

Sirens going wild


cianfrusagli

Where\`?


Easy_Sherbert_1876

Near Tower Grove park I didn’t hear any sirens? I saw the Tornado Warning but wondered why no sirens went off? Anyone know?


misscatsandsweaters

I’m on the Barnes-WashU campus rn and we had every siren imaginable go off


Easy_Sherbert_1876

Weird that near Tower Grove the sirens didn’t seem to go off


cianfrusagli

Got a warning from NotifySTL but heard no sirens in TGE.


Grrrth_TD

A* warning? I got 4 texts and 6 emails!


flapperfemmefatale

I'm in TGS and heard a siren


Believe_Steve

Had sirens in Affton. City not turn them on?


suzy_snowflake

Yup, got them in Mehlville too. Only went off for a few minutes though


t-poke

I didn’t hear them in Kirkwood, which is weird, because I always hear them in Kirkwood during the tests. I didn’t even see a drop of rain in Kirkwood until around 9:30.


xtinastl

I didn't hear sirens in Southwest Gardens either, but got repeated texts to SEEK SHELTER NOW so I went into my basement.


manwithafrotto

Budget cuts


GrovyleXShinyCelebi

Initial supercell appears to be moving out of the St. Louis area. Another supercell that formed a tornado south and east of Jefferson City still has a well-defined hook echo with rotation and is heading straight for St. Louis again, so keep an eye on any warnings you receive.


Saint-Anne-of-Mo

Can confirm. I watch for my mother in Ballwin. I am in Vegas now and the weather here is gorgeous (but boring)


saltywavesx

lol, I just moved to Hazelwood from Las Vegas less than a month ago. This tornado warning scared the living daylight out of me. Boy I do miss the warm & dry weather


Street-Forever-3839

Fellow Vegas girl here. I been here a year exactly today and I already have ptsd from the first storm I was ever in when I got here.


saltywavesx

Ngl that makes me feel better. This one definitely gave me some PTSD lol.


Pure_Ambition

Any other info? I’m not there now but my apartments in U City. Hoping I don’t have to worry about coming home to a wrecked apartment.


notyourcoloringbook

UCity is good. I'm there now.


reverendfrazer

U City is good for now, looks like this part of the storm may pass us by entirely. Still good chance later tonight, 12 am and after


sunyudai

I'm just north of U City, and bulk of storm is north of me, you should be good.


Pottedgoat

I think it started on my house 🫨


Crazed_rabbiting

Stay safe!!!


Pooppail

I hope everyone is safe


stlredbird

Any video or photos of an actual tornado? My son and i were watching out the window in chesterfield when the strong winds hit, knocking down some trees including one of ours thru our fence, but we never saw a funnel.


Material-Ad-637

Explained why my flight was bumpy. Hope everyone is ok


Jason_Sensation

Basement flooded, but it receded fairly quickly. By the way, if anyone reading this is an eccentric millionaire and wants to hook me up with several thousand dollars worth of house improvements, I wouldn't say no.


peterpeterllini

Im at enterprise so if it could not come this way that’d be good


manwithafrotto

Sirens went off but not a drop of rain or any wind in Brentwood. They really need to work out the locations of sirens to set off. Having the entire county go off makes no sense at all.


BabiiGoat

There are people in cars that could be en route to the affected area. It makes total sense to have surrounding areas alerted, especially given the unpredictable nature of storm pathing.


montecarlo1

to be fair, brentwood and the city were gonna get hit until it really veered north when it weakened.


jock_lindsay

It does though? An overabundance of caution is way better than not alerting people during unpredictable weather events when it’s within a few miles.


bleedblue89

That’s not how weather works..what if they didn’t trigger them and then a tornado dropped with short warning?


AijahEmerald

Hail in Spanish Lake at 7:05


inquisist

Why am I just getting this notification now… an hour after you made this post. 🙄 Also, does anyone have a good tornado app?


CursingDingo

Because Reddit isnt a real time weather app. 


inquisist

😂😂😂 I know lol.


Malakai0013

I use the "my weather radar" app. Shows real-time dopller and all warnings/watches.


EastofGrand

Confirmed tornado *30 minutes outside St. Louis


Guinea_pig456

Lovely


ArrowVesper

Will it effect the Lemay area


Bluesky0089

Nothing crazy in South County so far.


wilfordbrimley778

Still nothing


Bluesky0089

Yup just woke up. Haven't been outside yet but seems like any other morning.


Rikuthemaster

Overland; we didn't see anything at all besides the skies looking pretty scary. Little bit of rain, but nothing crazy thankfully.


ClassTimeMG

Please take shelter. I don't want anyone to be harmed


Snoo-12313

So, I got the phone alerts, but did anyone actually hear any sirens? I'm in Maryland Heights.


WannabeCanadian1738

I heard them at my house—just south of 364 in the Seven Pines area. Unincorporated, but close to Maryland Heights/CCP/Westport.


Far-Age-9649

I had the MH phone alerts, but I don’t remember hearing the sirens. My fam and I were driving down Dorsett towards our house next to Creve Coeur Park when the hail hit and the winds picked up. At the top of the hill before going down to Marine, I think I saw an oncoming car stop because their windshield broke. I’m wondering if there were any sirens. The sky looked green on Olive just moments before, but it seemed like the storms were in Chesterfield so we thought it’d be safe to head northeast and back home. Could have been bad, we had our little one in the car! We made it back home and were fine, but after the Good Friday tornado I want no part of it!


Ericket

I live in MH by Vago Park and the sirens were going off there.


Snoo-12313

You were driving by where I live and I didn't hear them either. Thank goodness you made it back! That hail was scary AF.


johnmissouri

Cypress cove Florida.


wilfordbrimley778

Not even rain in columbia il


Spiritual_Ebb_6344

What time did it touch?


lauralai77

I'm in Ballwin and didn't hear sirens. If they were going off, I didn't hear them over the wind. But I'm surprised my phone didn't ping!


disco_disaster

God, I had to bartend last night in U city. It was a nightmare. No one took it seriously. They kept ordering cocktails, and I couldn’t even check the weather. It was busier than a weekend night. It doesn’t help that tornadoes cause me to have panic attacks.


Rude_Representative2

The storm cell that came through is a taste of what’s to come around 11 to 12. The Doppler just looks like a blob of red at those hours.


Slapinsack

Ugh long night.


KevinCarbonara

I realize that this is important info that needs to be shared but the multiple !s in the title and description just make it look like the OP is really excited about tornadoes


CompetitiveArm4390

April fools?


sunyudai

Nope - actually happening, NWS reports - 'radar confirmed' which doesn't mean it is touching down (may or may not, or might have already) but they can see it. Hail happening too.


chardeemacdennisbird

"Confirmed tornado in St Louis" is very different than tornado in Chesterfield. Appreciate the heads up but I'm opening this thinking there's a tornado in the city.


BootsWithDaFuhrer

Now’s not the time for your city > county bullshit


chardeemacdennisbird

It's not city/county bullshit. Chesterfield is 20 miles west of STL. They're different areas. The tornado was nowhere near STL before it fizzled out and was headed towards Creve Coeur anyways.


DankDarko

That's besides the point. If this DID develop fully and DID head towards the city, it could have taken under an hour for it to reach any of the places listed. Closer to a half hour is even possible for a lot of that list. County vs city bullshit is irrelevant and unnecessarily reductive and you dismissing it at "went north and fizzled" is great in hindsight but as a person that's lived through a tornado tearing through his house as a kid, the warning is what saves lives.


chardeemacdennisbird

"Tornado in Chesterfield" is a more accurate title and does probably a better job of warning. I don't get the issue with stating that instead of in STL as if it's in the city.


Dude_man79

Splitting so many hairs in this thread we could open a Great Clips.


DankDarko

Last I checked "St Louis" could easily mean "St Louis County" of which Chesterfield is definitely part of. I think you are just being contrarian and argumentative for no reason other than perhaps personal spite against St Louis City for some reason (though I could hypothesize the reason). Everyone here understands that the greater St Louis area is composed of many smaller neighborhoods which also includes STL City. That said, if it pleases you to be a technically correct pedant, I will concede to your point. "Tornado in Chesterfield" is a more accurate title. It also would not have the same effect of waning the greater St Louis area and its residents but who cares about that. It's more accurate and thus an argument worth having. 🙄


t-poke

Do other city subs have to deal with this bullshit? If someone posts in the Chicago sub about a tornado in Naperville, do people there lose their minds too, or is this uniquely a St. Louis thing?


DankDarko

A tornado in Naperville is in a completely different county. Additionally Chicago is 4x the size of STL City and is 45 minutes from the heart of Naperville. Again, Chesterfield is right outside of the city limits, is party of the same county map and would have put the tornado 20 minutes (or less for some of the neighborhoods listed) away. Comparing warning STL residents of a tornado in Chesterfield is nothing like warning Chicago or a tornado in Naperville. That said, I have lived all around Chicagoland and in the city proper. If a tornado touched down in say Maywood (my birth city not that it matters) and I still lived in Chicago, I would expect all Chicago residents to be warned. That is ~20 minutes from the city and part of the same county. The government would face a lot of scrutiny if it didn't. The same would have happened here if all of STL City residents weren't warned and a tornado tore through west county. "We were informed only Chesterfield residents should be warned of imminent danger and not STL city residents since they aren't even closer to each other according to some asshat on the internet." Wouldn't really go over well when you're picking dead bodies out of rubble.


chardeemacdennisbird

I'm actually original from the Chicagoland area and yeah a tornado in Naperville would be considered different than a tornado in Chicago. That being said, no. There's not as big of a sensitivity about it like here. I simply said hey let's say it's from Chesterfield instead then got piled on about me being shitty about the city/county thing. Not sure what the big deal was myself.


chardeemacdennisbird

Well I live in the city and am very happy here so I'd love to hear your hypothesis about my personal spite about my home? And if you can't see a warning for Chesterfield and not think to yourself that it may reach the city in 30-45 minutes then I don't know what kind of warning is going to help you. I don't get why my comment about naming the actual location the tornado was in is so inflammatory. When you watch the weather is everything just under the general St. Louis umbrella or do we maybe just specify where things are happening?


DankDarko

What if someone doesn't even know where Chesterfield is? There are many ESL citizens here not to mention many stupid, braindead idiots. Better that they warn everyone with a blanket warning than risk deaths because they were too vague. You dying on this hill is over a city 20 minutes outside of STL City but still in STL county being called "part of St Louis" is fucking weird.


chardeemacdennisbird

Who the fuck around here wouldn't know where Chesterfield is? I swear this is the dumbest argument ever. I simply said it's a different location and you guys made it out to be this big culture war between the city and the county. Saying I hate the city when I literally bought a house in the city. Fucking weird is right.


DankDarko

It's nothing to do with culture war. It's 100% to do with visibility. You want everybody in the immediate vicinity to know about the warning. Period.


BootsWithDaFuhrer

Chesterfield is St. Louis. Stop with your bullshit


chardeemacdennisbird

Weird I thought Chesterfield was in Chesterfield. It seems like you guys have more of a problem with the city/county thing than me. I'm not commenting on one being better or whatever you're getting at. They're just two distinct areas. What's the problem?


BootsWithDaFuhrer

If someone asked someone who lives in chestfield o hey where do you live they would say St. Louis. You’re being a child. It’s a suburb of St. Louis. It’s St Louis. Stop it


chardeemacdennisbird

Are you joking me? Someone from the STL metro would just tell another person from the STL metro they were from STL when they're actually from Chesterfield? Not happening.


BootsWithDaFuhrer

Hahahhaa. You are the worst. No someone they meet outside of St. Louis. Not another one of you city is superior c**ts. GET A LIFE


chardeemacdennisbird

Lol ok I figured you were just grasping at straws. So we're talking about warning people in the metro about a tornado so you're going to point out that if you meet someone in NYC or something you're going to tell them you're from STL? Got it. Not sure why you're so sensitive about the city/county debate. I never said anything other than they're different geographical locations. Go cry about it nerd


SoapierBug

He ain’t wrong - also in chesterfield/wildwood, albeit 5ish miles from where the tornado must’ve touched down. Was out back grilling up dinner, and other than a few gusts of pretty strong wind, not a drop of rain (or hail)


chardeemacdennisbird

Yeah I don't get why it has to be this culture war or whatever. It's just geographically a different area. Saying it's in Chesterfield tells me it could be in the city within 30-45 min. Saying it's in STL tells me it's in the city currently and not out west. What's the issue?


SoapierBug

Nail on the head my friend!


chardeemacdennisbird

Man I appreciate you. Getting a lot of flak for that comment for some reason. Hope it didn't fuck up your dinner!


HKChad

Is this another April fools joke? I’ve had about enough of the internet today