***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

[Gorm]

Picture from top of the arch in St. Louis.

 

[cowgirl836]

**** just coming to say it looks like St Louis took a direct hit

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Algona is 54 degrees. Wind Chill 47 degrees. At 3:30 Friday pm

 

[Gunnerclone]

Tornado Emergencies and PDS warnings coming out left and right now.

 

[BCClone]

Algona is 54 degrees. Wind Chill 47 degrees. At 3:30 Friday pm

48 degrees on the MN border. May need blankets for the corn.

 

[KnappShack]

Dust storm warning in Illinois

I went through that in Texas. Wild. Luckily (hopefully?) we aren't in the zone

 

[madguy30]

Algona is 54 degrees. Wind Chill 47 degrees. At 3:30 Friday pm

I'm pretty hyped for the forecasted fever break tomorrow.

 

[NWICY]

People got killed down in Kentucky overnight Tornado(s) not sure if single or multiple.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Algona is 54 degrees. Wind Chill 47 degrees. At 3:30 Friday pm

I left Cedar Rapids to drive to Iowa City for an event at 5:15 yesterday. It was 77 degrees. When I got back home at 8:00 it was 58. I felt that change.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Dust storm warning in Illinois

I went through that in Texas. Wild. Luckily (hopefully?) we aren't in the zone

A couple of videos of the dust storm blowing through Chicago.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

St Louis Mayor says 5000 buildings have been damaged yesterday.

 

[madguy30]

People got killed down in Kentucky overnight Tornado(s) not sure if single or multiple.

When I saw the radar last night it looked like that whole state was gonna get cooked.

 

[jsb]

St Louis Mayor says 5000 buildings have been damaged yesterday.

The damage in St. Louis looks terrible.

 

[cowgirl836]

People got killed down in Kentucky overnight Tornado(s) not sure if single or multiple.

Couple towns got hit twice in a row. Slabbed houses. Looked bad on radar and images today aren't better.

 

[TornadoTouhou]

5 fatalities in St. Louis RN... 20 in London, KY in Appalachia...

Tornado devastates southern Kentucky

“Lives have been changed forever..."

www.wkyt.com

It was pretty late at night at around 11pm CST that the Somerset-London tornado dropped (I thought the event was over already just a few hours before) so a lot of people likely let down their guards, very devastating for a part of the US that doesn't usually see tornadoes like what we get here in central Iowa.

 

[awd4cy]

EF3 damage in St Louis. Here was the path.

 

[wxman1]

 

[Pope]

Please be true...please be true...please be true

 

[JP4CY]

This would be awesome.

 

[TornadoTouhou]

23 fatalities in Laurel County in eastern Kentucky (where London, KY is) and 1 fatality from Somerset, KY from a tornado last night: https://www.northcountrypublicradio...tornadoes-sweep-through-kentucky-and-missouri

For context, the 2023 Rolling Fork, MS EF4 tornado caused 17 fatalities, and the 2024 Greenfield, IA EF4 tornado caused 5 fatalities- this is now deadlier than both of them combined. This is crazy y'all, I didn't even think this would be this kind of tornado looking at the radar signature (at least compared to the many other ridiculous radar signatures yesterday).