*** Official 2011 spring storm thread***

[Gracie Dean]

Let the fun begin.

4/8/11

Baseball size hail a couple counties away...Tornado watch till 1 am

[Sure-Oz]

Franklin and Anderson counties KS.

[Gracie Dean]

Chance Hays from the National Weather Service says this year could be a really active year.

[Bugeater]

WE'RE ALL GONNA FUCKING DIE!!

[Gracie Dean]

WE'RE ALL GONNA ****ING DIE!!

yup. Someday we will

[HonestChieffan]

Katie Horner is hot.
Bryan Busby has never been right.
Lezac and his dogs can drink antifreeze.


We have had hail 3 times so far.

[Sure-Oz]

Chance Hays from the National Weather Service says this year could be a really active year.

Hopefully it won't be too bad, tornados are something i have feared since i was a kid for sure. I like thunderstorms in general though

[Gracie Dean]

Hopefully it won't be too bad, tornados are something i have feared since i was a kid for sure. I like thunderstorms in general though

they both fascinate and frighten me. I experienced the Andover tornado in 91 a very scary experience

[Priest31kc]

Hopefully it won't be too bad, tornados are something i have feared since i was a kid for sure. I like thunderstorms in general though

This

[HonestChieffan]

Hail and heavy rain now...

[Coach]

they both fascinate and frighten me. I experienced the Andover tornado in 91 a very scary experience

Hesston/Gossel '90

[Brianfo]

I have had baseball sized hail. Kind of an eery feeling when you are sitting in the house listening to it beat the sh*t out of stuff outside. We did get a insurance check on our roof.

[Phobia]

We had it last Sunday night. Vultures have decended upon your little town wanting to do our roofs. It's awful.... especially since my company sells roofs. Uh - why are my neighbors hiring vultures from 3 states away to replace their roof when I life just down the street from them?

[Stanley Nickels]

Started getting really loud on my drive home from work, then I realized I could start to see rain forming to hail, and by the time I got to a red light it was full on hail storm. I ran a red, pulled a U-Turn into a Quik Trip, and waited it out. The major issue? I drove my fiancees car to work today. I would never hear the end of it if I drove through hail.

[Sure-Oz]

Started getting really loud on my drive home from work, then I realized I could start to see rain forming to hail, and by the time I got to a red light it was full on hail storm. I ran a red, pulled a U-Turn into a Quik Trip, and waited it out. The major issue? I drove my fiancees car to work today. I would never hear the end of it if I drove through hail.

Smart, last sunday i drove through hail, luckily i was downtown during it and it was pea size and did not damage

[shirtsleeve]

We are finally turning the corner here and will see our first true spring mild spell, which means, bad weather for you. Be safe.

I am NOT going to miss this winter though. Good bye and good riddence. Still almost a foot of snow in the woods, although the yards are dry and firm enough to walk on now.

[Gracie Dean]

We are finally turning the corner here and will see our first true spring mild spell, which means, bad weather for you. Be safe.

I am NOT going to miss this winter though. Good bye and good riddence. Still almost a foot of snow in the woods, although the yards are dry and firm enough to walk on now.

yea, I would rather have the Tornadoes than snow. If I never see snow enough it would be too soon

[shirtsleeve]

yea, I would rather have the Tornadoes than snow. If I never see snow enough it would be too soon

This winter sucked soo bad. Near zero or below continuously from mid Dec through Mid March. We had weeks where it never reached zero. And the fuggin snow...125" of the stuff. It snowed and snowed and snowed...

Bad winter.

[Gracie Dean]

This winter sucked soo bad. Near zero or below continuously from mid Dec through Mid March. We had weeks where it never reached zero. And the fuggin snow...125" of the stuff. It snowed and snowed and snowed...

Bad winter.

agreed. I HATE winter way more than Tornadoes

[shirtsleeve]

agreed. I HATE winter way more than Tornadoes

Still, we may see two warnings a year here in July/Aug. Tornadoes are downright nasty.
As much as I plan to storm chase some, someday out your way, they are not something to be in the path of. Worse we get are blizzards. Winter cold core hurricanes. But they hit the coast so much worse than here inland. We just get 3 feet of white shit. Winds, trees down stuff.

Tornadoes explode houses and stuff.

[Gracie Dean]

Still, we may see two warnings a year here in July/Aug. Tornadoes are downright nasty.
As much as I plan to storm chase some, someday out your way, they are not something to be in the path of. Worse we get are blizzards. Winter cold core hurricanes. But they hit the coast so much worse than here inland. We just get 3 feet of white shit. Winds, trees down stuff.

Tornadoes explode houses and stuff.

yea, but usually the storms threaten a lot but the actual tornadoes not as much. But...they are predicting a rough season this year

[shirtsleeve]

yea, but usually the storms threaten a lot but the actual tornadoes not as much. But...they are predicting a rough season this year

Take care of yourselves.

[Gracie Dean]

Take care of yourselves.

we are prepared.

[Buehler445]

Goddamn. What I wouldn't give for something wet to fall from the sky.

[Gracie Dean]

looking for more storm action tonight.

[luv]

I have a friend in Ponca City, OK, who was out of electricity last night. Minor property damage, and a ton of tree limbs. Another friend posted a picture on her facebook page of a piece of hail that took up her entire palm. I can't remember if she moved down to Ponca or if she's still in Arkansas City.

I had a friend call me this morning, and he said something about being awake during the storm. If we had any kind of storm, I slept through it, and everthing is dry this morning.

[luv]

Okay. I have more friends on facebook talking about this thunderstorm we had last night/early this morning. I completely missed it. :(

[HonestChieffan]

Goddamn. What I wouldn't give for something wet to fall from the sky.


I talked to a friend near where you are. He said same thing. Cannot believe we have such excess rain/snow moisture, pastures are a disaster with ruts from haying cows, water in many fields...we are super soaked...thus a lot of talk of flooding in the near future.

[Dunit35]

Ponds are drying up here in NW Oklahoma.

Last Sunday it was 90, Monday it was 55.

Been sick all week because of it.

[Gracie Dean]

Ponds are drying up here in NW Oklahoma.

Last Sunday it was 90, Monday it was 55.

Been sick all week because of it.

yea, we had that too only it got colder than 55

[kstater]

I'm

[Gracie Dean]

I'm

a nut?

[kstater]

going

[Gracie Dean]

We had it last Sunday night. Vultures have decended upon your little town wanting to do our roofs. It's awful.... especially since my company sells roofs. Uh - why are my neighbors hiring vultures from 3 states away to replace their roof when I life just down the street from them?

because they don't know how awesome you are~~ how are you going to change that?

[CaliforniaChief]

Apparently a major tornado hit Mapleton, IA a little while ago. Injuries and major damage are being reported by storm chasers.

[Gracie Dean]

Apparently a major tornado hit Mapleton, IA a little while ago. Injuries and major damage are being reported by storm chasers.

and I was just looking at how quiet it is on KS radar tonight.

[Wyatt Earp]

Went out chasing this evening. Storms finally broke the cap around Greensburg about 6:30. Only had quarter sized hail and heavy rain. Will post some pics when I get to my computer.
Posted via Mobile Device

[tk13]

http://www.severestudios.com/cgi-bin/player.pl?username=mike.ratliff&uid=532

There's a live stream of someone chasing a tornado through western Iowa right now.

[Gracie Dean]

Went out chasing this evening. Storms finally broke the cap around Greensburg about 6:30. Only had quarter sized hail and heavy rain. Will post some pics when I get to my computer.
Posted via Mobile Device

Did you chase last night? There are some great pics of the Baseball size hail. Police cars in Rose Hill lost their windshields

[Wyatt Earp]

Did you chase last night? There are some great pics of the Baseball size hail. Police cars in Rose Hill lost their windshields

No I was at a concert last night.

[tk13]

Reed Timmer of the TV show Stormchasers was saying on twitter that the storm plowing through central Iowa has multiple funnels, one of which appeared to be a mile wide.

[Wyatt Earp]

Here is a good website to watch streaming videos from a bunch of chasers including Timmer.

http://www.kwch.com/weather/chaserradar/

[Wyatt Earp]

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[Gracie Dean]

Those are fantastic Mr. Wyatt Earp

[Gracie Dean]

4/10 any one with storms today? WE may get some tonight a cold front is moving in.

[kstater]

to bump

[Gracie Dean]

By GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press – 32 mins ago


MAPLETON, Iowa – Jamy Garden's house began to rumble with the approach of a tornado that at one point measured three-quarters of a mile wide. Then the windows shattered, spraying her with glass. Using her cellphone as a flashlight, she fled to her basement and called her grandparents in tears.

On Sunday, she returned home, wandering her backyard in a blood-splattered hooded sweat shirt, her right hand and left knee wrapped in gauze. Around her lay a tangle of tree branches, twisted siding, broken glass and a canoe that wasn't hers.

The tornado that struck the evening before damaged more than half of Mapleton, a town of 1,200 in western Iowa, Mayor Fred Standa said Sunday. He estimated about 20 percent of the town was "almost flat."

The huge, centuries-old trees the town was named for had been pulled out of the ground and wrapped around houses and tossed on top of cars, Standa said. In one case, a huge motor home had been flipped on its side. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110410/ap_on_re_us/us_iowa...


Wow, so sad...sounds like what happened in Greensburg

[luv]

Apparently, they've put something up on tv. I'm being bombarded with texts from my mom. Are you okay? Do you have someplace to go? Do you have a way to keep track of the weather? These types of concerns are kind of ironic to me considering she lives in a trailer.

[tk13]

Twin tornadoes last night near Pocohontas, IA.

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[Gracie Dean]

Twin tornadoes last night near Pocohontas, IA.

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wicked

[kstater]

this thread

[luv]

At least five more texts from mom, who has decided to update me on the weather status every five minutes.

[Gracie Dean]

At least five more texts from mom, who has decided to update me on the weather status every five minutes.

My grandma grew up way before electricity was available in the country and her family was very poor. When bad storms happened, they didn't have much warning except for what they observed. When she was older, she hated storms even when modern technology allowed for quite a bit of advanced notice. She would put herself in a closet until the storms passed she was that scared of them

[Gracie Dean]

4/14

Could be a wicked rocky night!


Tornado threat increases for Wichita areaThe Storm Prediction Center has adjusted its hazardous weather outlook for today, increasing the potential for strong tornadoes in southeast Kansas and the Wichita metropolitan area to 15%.


Read more: http://blogs.kansas.com/weather/2011/04/14/tornado-threat-increases-for-wichita-area/#ixzz1JX5fN4qn

[Bugeater]

It rained here earlier, does that count?

[Gracie Dean]

It rained here earlier, does that count?

only if you got wind gusts 50degress or higher and or hail :)

[Gracie Dean]

Ark City in Tornado warning as are 2 okla counties

could be a really fun night!!!

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ict&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

[Gracie Dean]

Is everyone in the St. Louis area okay?

[Rams Fan]

Is everyone in the St. Louis area okay?

I think so. No one died from the tornado or the storms, I think or that's what's being reported by the government.

I don't know if anyone lives in Bridgeton.

[Coyote Kev]

Goddamn. What I wouldn't give for something wet to fall from the sky.



Me like wise, we having a drout..............in spring

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers extremes in weather. Its so godamn powerful.

:huh:

[Coyote Kev]

Mebbe thaits thur furst line of anuther song ?

[Scott Pilgrim]

I think so. No one died from the tornado or the storms, I think or that's what's being reported by the government.

I don't know if anyone lives in Bridgeton.

I grew up in Bridgeton the old neighborhood is destroyed.

[Rams Fan]

I grew up in Bridgeton the old neighborhood is destroyed.

I saw the damage on the news. A lot of houses look totaled or damaged.

[Gracie Dean]

I grew up in Bridgeton the old neighborhood is destroyed.

I'm sorry

[luv]

Just had some thunder that rattled my apartment for about three seconds. I love thunderstorms!

[Gracie Dean]

5/10

Might be a really rocky night.

Stay safe everyone

[Dunit35]

We have had around .75 inches of rain since late March and .72 of that came in one night about two weeks ago.

[Gracie Dean]

we are supposed to get some pretty major storms over night. Temps dropped and it is getting cloudy and windy but nothing yet...not even rain

[Gracie Dean]

5/22

Joplin hit bad. Sister's house pretty destroyed. They are safe but in shock

How is everyone here?

[chasedude]

5/22

Joplin hit bad. Sister's house pretty destroyed. They are safe but in shock

How is everyone here?

Thoughts go out to your sis, glad they are safe but the loss of a house is heart breaking.

[Gracie Dean]

Thoughts go out to your sis, glad they are safe but the loss of a house is heart breaking.

Thanks. They have only been there a little over a year. Her son just got married and they have a new baby.

[Buehler445]

I just wish it would goddamn rain here.