Oh, good God, just this morning I heard three phone alerts, eight tornado alerts over the TeddyJ PA warning system, and six separate outdoor sirens.
I imagine this day of unrelenting tornado alerts is to make up for the lack of alarms when the 2025 tornado hit Saint Louis City.
It began at work when our phones all went off. I went to the window and saw a legitimate wall cloud on the horizon, so I contributed my own weather alert noise. I walked back to the cubicles. “Hey,” I said to co-workers. “Wall cloud.”
We discussed last year’s tornado for a minute, no more.
”But really,” I said, “You should see this wall cloud,” and I turned toward the window and discovered we were IN the wall cloud, just as we were summoned by the PA system into the stairwell, where we sat for an hour.
It is 7pm and it’s still going on. It’s going to go on another hour.
4 responses to “Noisy tornado season 2026”
That’s a… lot. BUT it is good to know when to take shelter vs. not knowing, so I do not know how to balance the “okay, look, that was probably 4x too much” with “but sometimes people do not have a cell phone on them” or whatever. Anyway! Sorry your co-workers missed seeing the wall cloud; hope your Shelter In Staircase time was collectively pretty good?
KC – was a good shelter time, and I have seen many Facebook messages from our county apologizing for overdoing it on the sirens.
My office actually sent us home at 3 today because STORMS! HAIL!’TORNADOS! Were headed our way. (Dallas) And lo and behold, those storms fell apart before they reached us, so, tragedy averted…? So because of this, nothing short of Armagedon will let us go home early from now on and it’s not even May yet. Sigh.
Lisa – That’s amazing that your office let you go home early. Is it because the schools sent the kids home early? Because I’ve heard that was a problem recently: kids would have been on their front porch while Mom and Dad were still at work. But it makes me wonder, is there no tornado shelter at these schools?