Weatherman Fife

I’m a trained SkyWarn Storm Spotter and a broadcast meteorologist in training.

[Weatherman Fife @WeathermanFife]

Drone footage and images of Purina Farms from the 3/14/2025 Villa Ridge-Fox Creek tornado.

[MSHP Troop C @MSHPTrooperC]

Troopers responded to a confirmed tornado touchdown approx. 6 miles northwest of Potosi in Washington Co. Several homes and structures completely damaged. Troopers and local first responders contacted the residents. All were accounted for with minor injuries and zero fatalities.

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Tornado Damage on Thiebes Rd in Labadie, MO. South of 417 and Old Wagon Rd.

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@leahwx4 It was so awesome to talk with you this afternoon Leah! Hopefully we can do this again sometime!!

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@NWSStLouis Closing in on 7 inches here in Labadie, MO after this morning’s rain! Definitely been a good soaker with some flooding in the low areas.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

From a Canadian firefighter who knows what’s going on:
#canada #wildfire #smoke
(Worth the read)

“I know you may know, but people need to know and understand that most Canadian wildfire management agencies have fire “zonation” policies similar to Alaska.

This means in large areas of their jurisdictions, especially in the northern part of the country, wildfires are left to run there natural course w little or no direct action or suppression. We’ll protect values at risk, ie. infrastructure, communities, critical habitat or culturally significant features on the landscape, we’ll map them and maybe try to burn them to natural barrier, fight one flank and let the rest roll (limited action) but we are not putting them out.

On many of the fires we don’t even try. A number of these fires are huge boreal gobblers (I am currently assigned to a 250,000 ha fire, well over 600,000 acres and you could fit the org. chart on one side of a beer can).

The only thing that is going to put out this fire out and many across the country is winter, 5 months from now. It’s going to be a long, smoky summer for everyone. You have a wide reach, it would be great if you can help people understand these dynamics in the Canadian wildfire scene when they’re bitching about the smoke.

Cheers 🍻 and thanks.”

Pretty decent picture of what’s going on. Thanks for the insight.

In the industry we call this letting a fire “Do its thing”. It’s especially common in these vast boreal forests. Siberia does the same thing. Identify hazards and values at risk, mitigate, let it go.

Cheers.

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@SteveTempleton Had some large hail on this cell as it moved 2 miles NNE of Gray Summit, I observed hail of at least mothball size for more than 25 minutes, with the majority of the stones being penny to quarter size, and the max hail size reaching ping pong balls. Frequent lightning as well.

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@ReedTimmerAccu Almost saw you man! Got some hail but not much else. Hailed for 25+ minutes at my house 2 miles NNE of Gray Summit, Max size ping pong ball size.

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@WeatherChambers @KMOV Roads were definitely nasty last night, personally I think schools made a good call to cancel.

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@SteveTempleton Sorry 2.5 Miles SSE of Labadie MO

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@NWSStLouis Time: 7:10 a.m.
Location: 2.5 miles SE Labadie MO in Franklin Co.

[NWS St. Louis @NWSStLouis]

Help us out tonight! Precipitation will start as rain or a rain/snow mix before transitioning over to all snow. Send us reports using the free mPing app so we know what's happening on the ground!

#mowx #ilwx #stlwx #midmowx

[Steve Templeton @SteveTempleton]

Rain this evening switches to all snow for tonight. A slushy and heavy wet snow on the way, will make travel poor tonight through early morning #4FirstAlert

[RadarOmega @RadarOmega]

INCREDIBLE TORNADO INTERCEPT by @BradArnoldWX using a mobile @cyclonePORT unit! A sharp pressure drop was captured near Taylor Landing, TX as the tornado and RFD were caught on video and live sensor data. Huge day for science!
#TXwx

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@NWSStLouis @NWS Do y’all at your WFO still do summer internships for high school students?

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@NWSStLouis @NWS Do y’all at your WFO still do summer internships for high school students?