Witness Protection Program

From early reports, it doesn't sound like Amazon had a warehouse manager monitoring the weather to warn employees and didn't herd all the employees towards the building's storm shelter. (Did it have one?) Hours of tornado warns as a line of 4+ almost continual tor warn boxes worked across metro St. Louis for hours before the warehouse was hit. I'm almost certain Edwardsville was under a tor warn at the time of the warehouse hit. Pretty sure Amazon was aware of the tornado situation and how it could impact their trucking ops. It's early, we'll see what other info comes out. But this may end up being a modern equivalent of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. In contrast to Amazon, reports are that the Mayfield factory has 100 workers trapped, but in the basement shelter.

Fire chief says they don't know how many people are trapped inside the Amazon warehouse. Got electricity cut off so they can get inside to search now. Other reports say 46 workers evacuated from the site. At least 1 was careflighted.

Rescue crews are flying drones over the Amazon warehouse collapse, brought in large excavating equipment.

I cannot believe the asshats at The (sometimes) Weather Channel cut away from live programming to the Storm Stories bullshit.

May scoot between Earlington and Morton's Gap and miss most of the residences.

tor warn for Ripley, TN (believe it or not)

Why bother with a tor emergency if you don't issue it until the tornado is actually plowing through the town? I understand that there was already a tor warn well in advance, so people should have already heeded that. But still....

I-270 @ I-255

AR still producing. Tornado south of Wiener. NTTAWWT

That KY-AR line is now training tor warns

Looks like Hayti was spared. Turn on Traffic on Google Maps and you can see where it crossed I-55 south of the 412/I-155 interchange.

Yeah, I-55 is closed.

Allegedly

So many tor warns popping up, it's like watching the bombing of Dresden.

Allegedly near Jonesboro, AR

Dang, a line of 5 tor warns in MO flanked by 1 in IA and 1 in AR

Well dang, so we're going to get another round tonight in DFW after this line that is currently rolling through. Any chance this current line will lessen the tornado risk for tonight's main event for DFW?

So 3 tornadoes ongoing in eastern OK right now? Edit: Back down to 2 active