Speaking with my RL professional hat on, as a scientist who studies severe weather and interacts with operational meteorologists, emergency managers, etc. on a frequent basis for a well-known national agency:
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Originally Posted by runneals
Major venues like this have emergency management plans that they put into place if there was a tornado watch/warning issued.
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If only this were true! Some of them do, but many of them do not. Unfortunately, I cannot find a published safety plan for America's Center / EJD online anyplace. I see that the
Cardinals and Busch Stadium are StormReady Certified, but not the dome.
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Originally Posted by runneals
Probably the bigger thing that you should be somewhat thinking about is safe places at your hotel and what to do if you are on a bus and see one. This should be all wrapped into the planning that your mentors/coach/safety captain does relating to risk mitigation and contingency planning -- having plans for when the worst should happen.
The SPC in Norman has some great tornado safety tips if you are interested.
PS I have been a trained spotter since 2009 and I've never once seen one (being from Iowa)  |
This is pretty good advice. The main thing is to seek shelter inside, away from windows, in the lowest level you can get.
The St. Louis NWS page is here:
http://www.weather.gov/lsx/ -- and it should have up-to-date information.
I'll be monitoring it, and if I see anything I will tweet about it (@wxtrav) and tag #FIRSTChamp. Don't count on that, though, since the phone coverage is pretty sketchy in the dome area.
And whatever you do, don't let your team run outside to video the storm. I know it is amazingly cool (one reason why started doing what I do for a career), but I've seen too many bad things happen to people who thought they would be okay to not be concerned about it.