JoMo

You could always get a safe room. However, they are pretty expensive and probably not feasible for a lot of the homes in the southeast due to the cost. http://www.missouristormshelters.com/

Find a sturdy shelter that can take an EF-5 Drive away. It worked during the Picher, OK EF4 tornado.

If they were warned and know they were warned, you can't really place 'blame' on anyone but them. You can't say they weren't warned and it wasn't a failure in the warning system. There are unfortunate circumstances where people like the elderly can't get to a shelter. I live in a house on a slab, meaning I don't have a basement, my neighbor does have a basement though and I can go over there assuming it isn't underwater at the time. You also have to deal with 'warning fatigue'. When an area experiences a lot of tornado warnings and 'nothing happens' at their particular location, they may not take action when that one time something does happen at their location.

I'm not sure about their warning systems down there, but there are warning systems (sirens) that are activated via a phone number and they are equipped with a battery backup.

Radar deflecting off of debris aloft. It's typically an area of extremely high reflectivity located near the hook. (mostly on the south side)

Warning people means nothing if people don't heed the warnings. The speed of these storms plus the strength of the tornadoes sometimes catches people by surprise.

yep, windows blown out, trees down, some awning blown off.

That's insane.

Yeah, hoping for more of a south trend with that system as I think the warm front will probably be just south of here on the 12z GFS. That's nasty looking.

Springfield MO BY MONDAY...MEDIUM RANGE SOLUTIONS AGREE THAT A NEGATIVELY TILTED UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH THE OZARKS FROM THE WEST...ONLY TO FIRE OFF ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS ALSO A SIGNAL FOR A SOLID EPISODE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS TIME...MOST LIKELY MONDAY AFTERNOON OR MONDAY NIGHT. WE WILL NEED TO WATCH THIS SIGNAL CLOSELY THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS THIS SETUP LOOKS TO BE THE BEST ORGANIZED PATTERN FOR SEVERE STORMS WE`VE EXPERIENCED SINCE NEW YEARS EVE.