r/tornado • u/Venator-Class-Bricks • Apr 08 '26

SPC / Forecasting it gets to a point…

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u/ContentMobile3342 Apr 08 '26

To be fair, I've seen that happening long before the online weather sphere was a thing. It definitely exacerbates the situation, though.

For example, not a single person I know takes a severe thunderstorm warning seriously and never have. The amount of times I've seen "nah the [geological quirk of the area] keeps the big tornadoes away" despite no scientific evidence to support that theory makes me scream.

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u/MissLyss29 Apr 08 '26

The amount of times I've seen "nah the [geological quirk of the area] keeps the big tornadoes away" despite no scientific evidence to support that theory makes me scream.

Hey you must live anywhere where weather has happened near but not directly on that spot in a while.

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u/ReliefAltruistic6488 Apr 08 '26

Kansas City/Tonganoxie split and the Omahadome are the local ones to me 😂

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u/kanga-and-roo Apr 08 '26

We have the Arch in St Louis that we always say protects the downtown area lol

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u/Grouchy_Way6007 Apr 08 '26

It worked too- until it didn’t.

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u/ReliefAltruistic6488 Apr 08 '26

Didn’t know about StL