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Sheltered in hotel stairwell around 8pm here in Springfield, Mo - wasn’t paying attention as I was busy with a work dinner and heard the outside sirens. heard eas activation on hotel lobby tv, used pds wording. Not sure if that’s used on all warnings these days, or if it was a rare pds warning. Quite a few confirmed tog’s with confirmed damage according to local media - Rogersville, Mo, Willard, Mo, Republic, Mo. I’m not up to speed on the dynamics of this system, but looks to present a continued night time threat moving toward St. Louis and into southern Illinois.

Got to be in my first warned area of the season for the cell that brought a confirmed tornado to Wheaton, MO, one of the many discrete cells that have passed through here (Springfield, MO) today. https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/update-purdy-police-reports-wheaton-suffers-severe-tornado-damage/article_cc76a2ec-6b81-11e9-9194-631e8eae4d98.html

I left the snows of Chicagoland and am in Springfield, MO today. SPC put us under a watch a little bit ago, feels juicy out here.

holy cow, glad you made it out okay, wow. Did you have a personal locator beacon or did somebody just come upon you? The current situation down here at 43north isn’t great for much of anything outdoors, snow is trashed, can’t ride mountain bikes, too icy for studded fat bikes, ice isn’t solid enough on the water to do anything, ski hills are trashed, can’t snowshoe or XC ski. So I’m going ice climbing this weekend, the late season cold is good for one thing - freezing up the waterfalls and keeping the ice climbing season active.