Helpful Rain, But Not Doing Much For The Rivers

[Justin Spencer]

Looks like so far Issac's bark was worse than it's bite in Missouri. The NFoW has risen a solid 3/4" and to think I was pulling things off the gravel bar just in case. Looking at the gauges throughout the state I've yet to see a good rise anywhere. I'm hoping for another inch two overnight, wish the river would rise about 2 feet, not 2 inches!

[KCRIVERRAT]

I agree. Looked at the Big Piney after Rapp's post... in his defense he'd posted NWS out of Springburg. Time for them forecasters to quit wearing overalls.

[Greasy B]

Yeah, it's not much different than when they over sensationalize the snow forecast in the winter time. I don't know what more pathetic the weather guessers or the dumb asses that believe them. Hopefully will see at least a foot of rise by tomorrow.

[jdmidwest]

We were sitting around work drinking Friday beverages when the sirens started blasting in town. Mass pandamonium, tornado warning with one spotted tracking out towards the house. One wreck on the way home, little mustang took out the corner of a commercial building. Others driving like crazy into the path of the storm.

False alarm, nothing spotted. Did get a little 1/2 inch burst out of the system as it moved thru. First shower of the day at dry ridge ranch.

[Jerry Rapp]

and a lot of folks believe the "weather forecasters" when they project weather trends for many years out. They can't forecast for 5 days, 3 days, or much less one day. Think about it.

[ness]

What town you talking about JD?

[jdmidwest]

What town you talking about JD?

Jackson and Cape Girardeau both fired up the tornado sirens. I have family working in both towns and the phone was hot for a few minutes. The actual storm being tracked was near Marble Hill in Bollinger County and not even going to go close to either town. I still have not heard of any damage.

Like I said, we were drinking Friday beverages at the office. I had been watching the storm track and making plans for the later weekend after the fact. It all popped up fast and was over in a matter of about 20 minutes. NWS showed a brief warning.

Funny thing, now we have all of the tech available, sirens with early warning, cell phone apps, internet, TV, radio. Everyone is a weather expert and panic spreads fast. I had one car flashing lights trying to pass me on a 4 lane road. People were flying down the road, trying to beat the storm home.

We are getting another shower now. The ground is soaking it up like a sponge.

[gramps50]

We don't have sirens where I live but when the coditions are right I can hear the ones in STL County. This afternoon they went off so the wife and I look outside to see what is going on. The sky was bright blue and we couldn't see any threating clouds so she turned on the local TV station to discover that there were some rotating clouds in the north eastern corner of STL County, we live outside South west STL County so it appears that they set the sirens off for the entire county. Most of the area in the warning was over in IL across the river, with 2 very small areas in MO being in the warning yet they alerted the entire county.

I really don't know how the STL County sirens are setup but with the size of the county it looks to me like they would have zones, but maybe not.

I seem to get better weather forcast off my phone that I do from the weather fools on the TV.

[jdmidwest]

Since Jackson was hit a few years back and Oak Ridge just north of it gets pounded about once a year now with a tornado, people are skittish when they hear them sirens.

I like to make the decision myself looking at the radar and listening to NWS weather radio. But they got our attention and I used the other tools to reason that there was not anything coming. The radar at the time was not showing anything strong, and we did not get anything strong. I think they based it on a report of a rotating cloud from a weather spotter yesterday in a small town about 20 miles west of where we were.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I have 1 1/2" here and it appears there were no gully washers around here. I'm sure not a whole lot will even make it to the springs anytime soon as dry as its been.

I'm with you JD, I know the new technology breeds larger warnings. When people depend on them as they do they have to broaden the area of alert. I like to watch the clouds and radar, but I don't discount the NWS either. You can get a sense of how much of a threat it is to your location using the three.