Terms & Conditions

This website is for official use only.

Do not purposely submit bad reviews or the following will be result: (a) your review will be taken down; and (b) you will be banned from joining STLWC.

Do not use or propose our website as a bad example or the following will result: (a) your review will be taken off; and (b) you will be banned from joining STLWC.

We have the right to ban you from using our services.

We have the right to not accept information received from the public.

If you disrespect proper authorities you will receive a warning. If it continues you will receive a temporary ban.

By signing up for WAMS you agree to allow us to send emails to provide information on severe weather. 

If you wish to “opt out” you may do so but keep in mind the following: (a) because contact to arrange an “opt out” is via email it may take up to seven days to respond; and (b) even after response it may still take time to verify your identity.

By using Saint Louis Weather Club we have the right to use or refuse data meaning that, while you may fill out a form to report weather, that report will not necessarily be recognized by us or our website.

If you fill out a form that requires email or another form of contact information, that data may be used to contact you through our systems.

Please note that our main focus for this service is to alert the public of severe weather and that most of the data we collect will not be handed out to the public. 

Please note that you may still email us and under the approval of our Founder certain exceptions to rules could be granted at that time upon request. 

Please also note that we are not just keeping this data to ourselves. We are making graphs and other data transferring methods to view and store data.

When using the STLWC site or any other STLWC service, we have the right to contact you via email for reasons other than severe weather notification.

All founders, admins and moderators have the ability to ban users.

If you are banned, un-banned, then re-banned you will receive an "infinite ban"

An "infinite ban" does not mean you will never be unbanned, it just means your ban has no expiration date.

Some pages may be taken down or semi protected to prevent interaction between two users

All Admins and Moderators may also be banned at the Founder's discretion.

A verbal warning

A written warning

A digital warning (email)

An editing block

A job block

A IP sitewide block

Do not report false weather or else on your first offence nothing will happen. On your second you will be flagged as possibly an unreliable source of information. On your third you will be flagged as an unreliable source of information. On your fifth you will receive a temporary ban. 

If you report false information and it is then reported to NWS you have commited a crime.

Email support@stlweatherclub.org if you have questions.

Not all users are given editing permission.  

If given editing permission at any time Vandalism Preventing Admins may revoke you access to edit STLWC sites.

If you are banned your editing access will be revoked

Only do things that will benefit the Saint Louis Weather Club.

When using Saint Louis Weather Club messaging systems, you agree that at any time with designation of messaging bot, a bot may contact you.

You agree that It may take time for a Saint Louis Weather Club staff member to contact you.

You agree that bots are not perfect and mistakes may be made.

All letters in title must be capital letters.

You must put in bold and capital: NOT AN OFFICIAL WARNING

You must put your name in all capital letters two spaces after "NOT AN OFFICIAL WARNING", it also must be in capital letters and NOT bolded.

Use common sense, do not vandalize.

Be respectful: Don't be disruptive, create arguments, or engage in hate speech.

Be mindful of children: Keep cussing to a minimum and don't discuss politics, religion, race, sex, violence, or bodily functions.

Cite weather information: If you want to share information from trained weather spotters or meteorologists, include the source.

Respect the mods: Respect the moderators.

Avoid morbid conversations: Don't engage in morbid conversations, but you can respectfully remember chasers who have passed away. 

Use common sense: Only do things that you think would be appropriate.

On your first instance: You will be warned.

On your second: Again warned, and told to review chat guidelines.

On your third: You will again be warned, and told to review chat guidelines.

On your fourth: You may be banned from chatting on our content.

Do not do anything that may be inappropriate.

Use common sense.

Be respectful.

Engage in strictly weather related topics.

Follow general rules of 1.9

Certain information may be given to us for analytic purposes.

Some info gained may include location information, web browser information, time on site, etc.

Cookies may be used in certain services to help make things work, and to remember you if you were in the middle of a form and had to complete it later.

For more info, check out our privacy policy.