Severe Weather in St. Louis

[runneals]

Originally Posted by jds2001

'd imagine that EJD has a plan for if something were to happen, most likely involving shelter-in-place, or evacuation to the concourse. Pay attention to what the venue tells you to do, basically.

Major venues like this have emergency management plans that they put into place if there was a tornado watch/warning issued. 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)

[BSV]

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:

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.

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.

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.