***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[ISUAgronomist]

That's a pretty big if though. Very few schools have a safe room, I'm pretty confident that none of the elementaries in Ankeny do. I asked my son where they went this morning when the sirens went off, and they went to their collaboration room, which is just an interior room with no exterior windows.

Newest schools in Ankeny absolutely have them. The Catholic school in town had to construct a room to meet safe room code with their recent school addition.

 

[cstrunk]

Tornado on the ground just north of Corning, IA. Quickly moving NE.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

Tornado on the ground just north of Corning, IA. Quickly moving NE.

Heading straight towards DSM. Wonder if storm will intensify or not

 

[aeroclone]

they are required in the newer additions of the IBC. I would be surprised if the new schools in Ankeny don't have them. My kids are in Waukee and there elementary (Eason) has one.

Eason isn't even that new. Believe it is actually now the oldest elementary in Waukee, opened in the mid 90s.

 

[cstrunk]

Tornado on the ground just north of Corning, IA. Quickly moving NE.

Heading straight towards DSM. Wonder if storm will intensify or not

Actually there are two. Both with large debris signatures on radar. Plus visual confirmation from chasers.

 

[NorthCyd]

Channel 13 has storm chasers on a large multivortex tornado.

 

[cstrunk]

Channel 13 has storm chasers on a large multivortex tornado.

One of them has another large elephant's trunk tornado on the backside.

 

[cowgirl836]

DSM area needs to pay a lot of attention coming up.

 

[cowgirl836]

Reed's stream holy buckets

 

[cowgirl836]

holy ****, it's hitting windmills on that stream

 

[Agclone91]

Temp has gone up 6° in the last 30 minutes in Ames even with cloud cover. It feels nasty out right now.

 

[RLD4ISU]

Friendly reminder to those in the earlier path, weather radios are great, charge your cell phones/power banks and for the littles (and yourself honestly), have shoes and bike helmets ready if you'll be going to a basement or interior space. And any critical prescriptions/meds close at hand.

My Mom would make us put on shoes whenever we were in a tornado watch - just in case. Her theory was you may not have time to put those shoes on later.

 

[BCClone]

Between Ellsworth and Hubbard.

Must be an Iowa grad who doesn’t want to say Ames?

 

[cs6804]

Eason isn't even that new. Believe it is actually now the oldest elementary in Waukee, opened in the mid 90s.

it is older, but they did an addition a few years ago that required a shelter.

 

[do4CY]

I searched for it on google maps and got nothing.

Between Ellsworth and Hubbard.

Radcliffe is between Ellsworth and Hubbard but it is in Sherman township. Don't know why they would use it for a warning

 

[exCYtable]

Ryan Hall says debris ball at 25,000 feet and one of largest he's ever seen.

 

[exCYtable]

DSM area needs to pay a lot of attention coming up.

Can't overemphasize this. Especially coming up on rush hour when it hits.

 

[Cyhig]

DSM area needs to pay a lot of attention coming up.

Looks like about 4:45-5:00 arrival time for the DSM area

 

[FDWxMan]

Holy cow

 

[ISUcyclones11]

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Reed had it getting hit live it was insane