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I'd never heard the tornado warning sirens, you know the ones outside, under “this is no drill” conditions, until yesterday. Funny thing is, there was clearly no tornado outside. The storm that generated the warning passed over the top of my house about five minutes before (oh great!) There was no twister in it (then), but there was terrific “straight line wind” and amazingly heavy rain. When the sirens went off it was eerily quiet outside, which gave them a more ominous sound. The place where I work has sustained damage from giant hail, windows, skylights, cars in the parking lot. Glad I wasn't there. The local Fox news station is located in the same complex, and they had a camera guy outside checking each other's cars. They all had windows taken out. Ouchie.
 
We can hear the one in town from here when it goes off. If I never hear it again, it would be too soon.
 
wow...nasty stuff...im glad i live in california...gimme an earthquake or wildfire anyday..those i can deal with...i hate wind and rain tornado type stuff i mean...seriously..we get winds here on the sloap of about 15 mph and i almost panic....
 
PRB said:
I'd never heard the tornado warning sirens, you know the ones outside, under “this is no drill” conditions, until yesterday. Funny thing is, there was clearly no tornado outside. The storm that generated the warning passed over the top of my house about five minutes before (oh great!) There was no twister in it (then), but there was terrific “straight line wind” and amazingly heavy rain. When the sirens went off it was eerily quiet outside, which gave them a more ominous sound. The place where I work has sustained damage from giant hail, windows, skylights, cars in the parking lot. Glad I wasn't there. The local Fox news station is located in the same complex, and they had a camera guy outside checking each other's cars. They all had windows taken out. Ouchie.
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The same thing happened in O'Fallon with the tornado sirens. The storm was actually to the east over Creve Couer......
 
I actually live in Dardenne Prairie, which, as you probably know, is right next to O'Fallon. From watching the news during all this, it looks like the doppler radar data stated to show tornado indications, as you said, around Crece Oueur, if I remember correctly. That was after it passed us here. Never got any hail here, or even much lightning. Lots of wind and rain though.
 
Daveroo said:
wow...nasty stuff...im glad i live in california...gimme an earthquake or wildfire anyday..those i can deal with...i hate wind and rain tornado type stuff i mean...seriously..we get winds here on the sloap of about 15 mph and i almost panic....
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Here in the middle of the country along the Mississippi River, we get both tornados and earthquakes (New Madrid fault)
 
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