***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[cycloner29]

Okay, where the heck is Sherman, ia? I’ve heard of all the others but not that town.

It probably tanked.

 

[cs6804]

It should've happened sooner, really. What sounds safer, sending kids home early to distribute them and put them back under family care during an emergency, or have all of them shuttled together into one space when there's only enough adults around to attend them at a 20:1 ratio?

If the school has a safe room they are 100% safer at school vs home in a basement.

 

[BCClone]

It probably tanked.

I searched for it on google maps and got nothing.

 

[BoxsterCy]

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.

Never thought of helmets but that's a good one or the kiddos. If I ever have to do a basement dive again I might opt for my old hard hat or better yet, old German WWII helmet my dad bought back.

 

[NorthCyd]

Storm moving at 60 mph. I bet that's fun for storm chasers to try and keep up with.

 

[cycloner29]

I searched for it on google maps and got nothing.

Between Ellsworth and Hubbard.

 

[ISULibrarian]

If the school has a safe room they are 100% safer at school vs home in a basement.

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.

 

[cs6804]

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.

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.

 

[Clonehomer]

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.

Just because it’s not a dedicated shelter doesnt mean it wasn’t designed to be a safe room. Schools can’t afford to have wasted space, so the tornado shelter doubles as a classroom 99% of the time. It’s about how it is constructed, not what’s in it. I’ll take the concrete building over a stick home every day of the week. Biggest thing to worry about with schools is the roof. And any newer building has those designed with storms in mind.

 

[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.