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Post by Snowstorm920 on Mar 11, 2020 23:27:03 GMT -6
Slight risk now includes the metro. Enhanced risk for the southern counties that includes a hatched 10% tornado risk  |
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Mar 12, 2020 0:18:48 GMT -6
Current protocol within my organization for known exposure is a 14 day self quarantine. I’ll take the risk for 14 days off. Congress needs to protect all workers and make it a matter of law that companies MUST provide 14 days of paid leave for quarantine/corona virus. This should not have to come out of the pockets of workers. To do so will only further drag the economy down because people will be unable to take trips because they wont be able to afford them. One company I worked for really did come at me with “well, we really need you here“ when I was seriously sick a couple of times. They were a small company so I understand their situation - they do need to get the work done. But at the same time my job dealt directly with customers who at their location so I'm sure they were thrilled to have me 9n their business cough, hacking and gurgling while looking like something the cat dragged in. |
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Mar 12, 2020 0:22:27 GMT -6
There was also some chatter of having to work-from-home at my station... would be make for one heck of an interesting weather hit. I saw that done in January when I was watching the live stream of NTV in St.John, Newfoundland after that big blizzard. Their meteorologist couldn't get to the station. Graphics, what there was of them, were done at the station. His shots were, I presume, from the camera on a laptop looking up at him. Great up the nose shots with a background of the ceiling. |
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Post by Labrat-O'Fallon IL on Mar 12, 2020 5:53:30 GMT -6
There also isn't a widespread specific test. I'm pretty sure our hospital system is using a respiratory virus panel to try to detect these, or we send them on to the state to test. I think some places may be going off of symptoms with a negative flu test. We now have to set up all flu tests/strep screens/rsv tests under our bio hood. I've been reading in the news that although we have plenty of working SARS-Cov2 test kits now they depend on a separate RNA isolation kit that is in short supply...for obvious reasons. Is that correct? Not sure what our dna kits test for, that's a different department. There probably wasn't a lot of rna kits made, and now the suppliers are scrambling. Any swab or wash test is only as good as the sample collected. That's why some flu specimens go for the panel test, and strep screens get sent to micro to see if anything grows. |
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Post by koll27–Waterloo, IL on Mar 12, 2020 6:20:58 GMT -6
perhaps what has been going around IS covid-19. Dont think that has not crossed my mind. I never tested positive for flu... but docs presumed it was flu based on symptoms. Flu tests are not flawless either. I am in the same boat. I did not test positive for flu either, they just told me it was an upper respiratory virus. I’m on day 4 at home. |
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Post by demerson- Fletcher MO on Mar 12, 2020 6:51:33 GMT -6
Wouldn’t surprise me. Been sick off and on for the last three weeks. Random fevers, headaches, cough, nausea.
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Post by jmg378s on Mar 12, 2020 6:59:58 GMT -6
SPC mentioning possibility of strong tornadoes in SE MO on eastward today. I hadn't looked this morning, but some models last night looked really amped so this isn't surprising.
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Post by WEAXWATCHER on Mar 12, 2020 7:07:31 GMT -6
SPC mentioning possibility of strong tornadoes in SE MO on eastward today. I hadn't looked this morning, but some models last night looked really amped so this isn't surprising. I read that too... but something is bugging me... Time of day seems off. Hear me out. Since I moved into the area in 2007, I cannot recall any storm system producing strong tornadoes around or before the noon hour. I know this system is a 9am through 6pm thing but normally the storms roll through during the evening (after 5pm) through early morning. In my research of storms for the STL area, some of the more potent ones happened during the time frame we are looking at today. Am I seeing that wrong? Yes, I was away in Germany for two years (JUL 2010 to JUL 2012) but do not remember any day time severe during that time frame. Just wondering about a possible shift in patterns and storm timings? Thoughts? |
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Post by House Springs ~ DeerKiller ~ on Mar 12, 2020 7:22:05 GMT -6
Them storm are flying down 70 looks like they are falling apart though
Medium fog here in house springs
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Post by STGOutdoors on Mar 12, 2020 7:24:16 GMT -6
Wouldn’t surprise me. Been sick off and on for the last three weeks. Random fevers, headaches, cough, nausea. I've had the random fevers too the last couple weeks along with a headache that lasted 4 days. I took it as my body was working hard to fight something off but there weren't really any other symptoms. |
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Mar 12, 2020 7:53:05 GMT -6
SPC mentioning possibility of strong tornadoes in SE MO on eastward today. I hadn't looked this morning, but some models last night looked really amped so this isn't surprising. I read that too... but something is bugging me... Time of day seems off. Hear me out. Since I moved into the area in 2007, I cannot recall any storm system producing strong tornadoes around or before the noon hour. I know this system is a 9am through 6pm thing but normally the storms roll through during the evening (after 5pm) through early morning. In my research of storms for the STL area, some of the more potent ones happened during the time frame we are looking at today. Am I seeing that wrong? Yes, I was away in Germany for two years (JUL 2010 to JUL 2012) but do not remember any day time severe during that time frame. Just wondering about a possible shift in patterns and storm timings? Thoughts? I thought the timing of best forcing looked a bit early for southern sections but pretty ideal for the lower OH/KY valley. Anything that can fire ahead of the front has a good chance of staying discrete and potentially tornadic. |
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Post by mosue56 on Mar 12, 2020 8:22:51 GMT -6
Has there been a Tor Con issued for SE MO?
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Post by dschreib on Mar 12, 2020 8:42:29 GMT -6
I'm thinking of just quarantining everyone at work and running around the clock. According to my 401k, I'm going to work until I'm forever-years old anyway.
Edit: On the weather front, I talked to my daughter last night about the severe potential today. She said they have a storm shelter at the Scott City school--not underground, but apparently built to withstand a fairly significant tornado. I haven't looked into it yet, but that sounds much better than the old "crouch in the hallway" approach that we had, assuming you can get kindergarten kids to make their way to it. She said it's like herding cats.
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Post by cardsnweather on Mar 12, 2020 9:14:09 GMT -6
Storm south of Fulton, MO is impressive on radar
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Post by BRTNWXMAN on Mar 12, 2020 9:16:16 GMT -6
Storm near KJEF looking pretty strong...looks like a threat to the metro in an hour or two.
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Post by STGOutdoors on Mar 12, 2020 9:43:04 GMT -6
Looks like this will be a two part event...first is the intensifying batch of storms which will affect the metro. The second will be this evening likely along and south of Farmington, STG line. Those will explode quickly and may be quite severe if destabilization is realized in the wake of this first wave.
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Post by cardsnweather on Mar 12, 2020 10:01:35 GMT -6
The world is shutting down. I look forward to conference tournaments, ncaa tournament and nhl playoffs more than any other time. This is bigger than sports, though. I am just mind blown at how fast the dominoes are falling.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Mar 12, 2020 10:08:16 GMT -6
That’s a lot of heavy rain to our west
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Post by weatherman222 on Mar 12, 2020 10:10:43 GMT -6
I'm thinking of just quarantining everyone at work and running around the clock. According to my 401k, I'm going to work until I'm forever-years old anyway.
Edit: On the weather front, I talked to my daughter last night about the severe potential today. She said they have a storm shelter at the Scott City school--not underground, but apparently built to withstand a fairly significant tornado. I haven't looked into it yet, but that sounds much better than the old "crouch in the hallway" approach that we had, assuming you can get kindergarten kids to make their way to it. She said it's like herding cats.
Both of our School Districts in Madison County received FEMA grants for these shelters. Two of them are actually gymnasiums and the third a regular class room structure. They are all reinforced concrete structures and the press releases claimed they would withstand 250MPH winds. |
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Post by bellevillewxguy on Mar 12, 2020 10:14:17 GMT -6
The world is shutting down. I look forward to conference tournaments, ncaa tournament and nhl playoffs more than any other time. This is bigger than sports, though. I am just mind blown at how fast the dominoes are falling. Can't have Pandemic without the word "panic'. All masks are sold out even respirators and dust masks from Home Depot not just surgical ones. Big sign on the door states so. Also hope no body has anything invested in stocks or oil as both are in free fall, full liquidation mode right now. Well into bear market territory. I smell a very steep but likely brief (hopefully) recession on the way if not already here. |
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Post by bellevillewxguy on Mar 12, 2020 10:16:59 GMT -6
Severe storms today with the potential although a bit small of heavy wet snow on Saturday. Gotta love St. Louis in March.
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Post by toddatfarmington on Mar 12, 2020 10:18:18 GMT -6
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Mar 12, 2020 10:20:56 GMT -6
I just had a low rumble of thunder. Just started to rain lightly.
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Post by bellevillewxguy on Mar 12, 2020 10:29:23 GMT -6
Tornado Watch to be issued shortly southeast of town, mainly the southeastern most counties.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Mar 12, 2020 11:17:03 GMT -6
Lots of big booming cloud to ground strikes in Arnold. Sure sounds like spring outside
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Post by red12 Hillsboro,mo on Mar 12, 2020 11:18:07 GMT -6
Rotation?  |
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Post by beaker - Dardenne Prairie, MO on Mar 12, 2020 11:19:07 GMT -6
Very heavy rainfall imby last 30 minutes. Letting up now, but my yard is a river.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Mar 12, 2020 11:20:18 GMT -6
Rotation? These storms are elevated so no tornado threat. Thats probably just radar noise |
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Post by beaker - Dardenne Prairie, MO on Mar 12, 2020 11:21:05 GMT -6
The worst part of this rain, is that it looks like almost every day from now to the beginning of Spring, we are going to have rain. hopefully that changes.
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Post by Snowstorm920 on Mar 12, 2020 11:25:47 GMT -6
These storms are elevated so no tornado threat. Thats probably just radar noise Looking closer there is some rotation there. But with the storm elevated no threat besides hail and wind |
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