OT: Dangerous weather headed for St. Louis!

[Bravesfan]

For those who live in and around the St. Louis area, there are two extremely dangerous supercell thunderstorms headed straight for St. Louis city within the next half hour. They already dodged the first cluster, but these two storms look about as intense on radar as I have seen in a long while! There is the potential for baseball sized hail and a long track large tornado that is causing widespread structural damage in St. Charles County right now.

So here's hoping our posters that live in that area have already taken cover and don't experience any of this weather headed in their direction.

[Bravesfan]

A tornado warning is now in effect for St. Louis city until 8:45. This storm has a history of producing damaging tornadoes, so let's hope this weakens quickly before it hits the heart of the city.

[Bravesfan]

Damage at the Lambert St. Louis airport, including roofs blown off buildings, and damage at Harrah's Casino. Also police scanners calling in the canine units now! Not good! My thoughts and prayers go out to those in the affected areas. It looks like the northern storm is effecting northern St. Louis city while the southern storm will skim the southern part of the city, staying away from the downtown area for now.

[Bravesfan]

The situation seems to be getting more dire in the northern part of St. Louis. Passengers that were deplaned walking through a terminal report blood and glass all over the place! Also serious injuries have been reported in the parking garage. And every window in the main terminal of Lambert Airport have been blown off!!!

What a horrible situation there! I think we'll take the severe hail storm moving through Peoria now anyday over this!

[bigjimmy]

Saw a picture from the Weather Channel that showed a van was teetering over the roof of a parking deck at Lambert. Sounds like there's a lot of damage in the northern suburbs of St. Louis. Plus this tornado was possibly reforming near Edwardsville.

[Da Coach]

Story with video (in case anyone here has never seen rain )

http://ladue-frontenac.patch.com/articles/once-again-heavy-thunderstorms-pound-st-louis-region#video-5760997

St. Louis Cardinals game was delayed and fans moved to a protected area while tornado warning sirens went off-

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/772cbfbdeb164527882e48d4fb21ad35/MO--Missouri-Storms/

http://www.kmov.com/sports/Strong-storms-headed-for-Busch-Stadium-120520319.html

[Bravesfan]

Story with video (in case anyone here has never seen rain )

http://ladue-frontenac.patch.com/articles/once-again-heavy-thunderstorms-pound-st-louis-region#video-5760997

St. Louis Cardinals game was delayed and fans moved to a protected area while tornado warning sirens went off-

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/772cbfbdeb164527882e48d4fb21ad35/MO--Missouri-Storms/

http://www.kmov.com/sports/Strong-st...120520319.html

Sounds like what happened at Wrigley Field a couple of summer's ago! The only difference was this was a derecho that went through causing widespread tree damage and some minor tornado spinups along that line.

The St. Louis situation tonight is a lot different though as this appears to be one large damaging tornado that is causing widespread structural damage which is a much more dangerous situation.

Yeah, that first video did not quite capture the dangerous conditions that moved through there tonight! Maybe someone will post some better videos of what happened later tonight. Obviously let's hope no one was killed in this though.

Any hail in your area tonight DC? Just rain and thunder for us in Chicago tonight so far.

[Da Coach]

Having thunderstorms, and they seem to have passed. No hail.
The Weather Channel is now showing some pictures of severely damaged cars in the parking areas at Lambert Field from a tornado. They should probably also be getting pictures of the damage at Concourse C where many windows have been broken.

[Future Walk-On]

waiting................cardinal rain delay.....................waiting............wishe s they had better rain delay programming......like playing old world series endings, great games, etc... instead of stupid kids club crap

[Da Coach]

Here is a picture of a van nearly thrown off the top deck of a parking garage by a tornado-

[Da Coach]

More pictures-
http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Storm...#gallery-image

[KillerB]

Lambert is shutdown.. there are reports of people trapped in planes on the tarmac..
I-270 has been shutdown for 1 hr in NSTL County.. downed powerlines across the interstate.
There were 2 tornadoes.. one south of downtown and one to the north. It appears the one to the north did much more damage.

This comes on the heels of Tuesday's storms. 6 tornadoes touchdowned .. all about 1 hr's drive from St. Louis. There was a fair amount of hail damage all over the area from those storms. My car got pounded.

[Bravesfan]

Here is a picture of a van nearly thrown off the top deck of a parking garage by a tornado-

Yeah, I'm listening to KMOX radio online and heard about this. Wow!

[Bravesfan]

Lambert is shutdown.. there are reports of people trapped in planes on the tarmac..
I-270 has been shutdown for 1 hr in NSTL County.. downed powerlines across the interstate.
There were 2 tornadoes.. one south of downtown and one to the north. It appears the one to the north did much more damage.

This comes on the heels of Tuesday's storms. 6 tornadoes touchdowned .. all about 1 hr's drive from St. Louis. There was a fair amount of hail damage all over the area from those storms. My car got pounded.

Hopefully no tornado damage for you tonight?

[Bravesfan]

waiting................cardinal rain delay.....................waiting............wishe s they had better rain delay programming......like playing old world series endings, great games, etc... instead of stupid kids club crap

Yeah, the Cardinal game is back on now! It looks like the downtown area got off pretty easy, though it was close on both sides of town.