[ernie]

Look at the radar map and seeing how quickly the OK storms came into being this afternoon is quite something. Also a whole mess of stuff coming over the Colorado-Kansas border right now.

Locally they are backing off the severe thunderstorm warnings for the time being as it looks like much of the currently developed mess will pass north and south of us. We can only hope that remains the case. But there is a long time between now and midnight. Looking at the current warnings they have dropped Jasper county (Joplin and area) from everything but the flash flood warnings.

Fingers crossed but i expect we will catch some of it.

Stay safe everyone and remember that the sirens go off for a reason. Don't treat them as you would your fire alarm going off when you burn the toast. More and more that is the story in Joplin...people ignoring those sirens and just continuing to do what they were doing.