Got to love Tornado Alley (PICS!!!)
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Yeah, they said 24 tornadoes skipped across Missouri yesterday.
it happens every years, and I am very impressed by Tornadoes (Twister Sisters is coming on tonight- looks like it's gonna be a story about two female storm chasers- and the footage seems UNREAL.
But, I hope no one gets hit like that Greensburg, Kansas got hit, and wiped off the map last year.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...er_tornado.jpg
When you see that picture, it gives you an idea of how wide, and powerful that storm was, to do this kind of damage. Considering that 95% of the town was deatroyed, I'm just amazed only 11 people were killed. They must've either all left town, or they all have storm cellars- (Which shoudl be Mandtory in Tornado alley).
As powerful as this one in Greensburg was though, it was weak compared to the one that hit Jarrell, TX in 1997. That SOB took the trees, ripped the asphalt from the streets, and not only wiped brick homes from the foundation, but took the foundation as well. That's serious power.
That's part of the reason why I don't really like Spring. Not only does it mean the end of Winter, and a 90-day count down to summer. It brings Tornadoes too.
The damage lets them know Jarrell was at the high end of the F-5 range, and possibly an F-6 (A level not known before, with winds higher than theujita Scale acounted for back in 1997). But, there was no wind measurement taken, so no one knows how powerful that storm was. So, officially, the one that hit Moore, OK still ranks the highest, with 318 MPH winds.
It looked like a low yield nuke went off in that town.
After being weather nut as long as I have been, and knowing the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scale the way I did, I didn't think anyone was in real danger from a Tornado (unless you were outside, or in your car) unless the Tornado was an F-3 or higher.
An F-1/F-2 hit a small town north of McKinney, TX about 2 years ago, and about 10 PM that night, and killed 13 people- if memory serves. That's what's most scary. I mean, at least in the day time, maybe- MAYBE you can see it far enough away to move away from it. But at night, you can't see it, and you can't adjust. Even if you're in your car, you could drive right into one.
A guy I know back home was caught in a twister about 15 years ago, in his car. The storm picked his Chevy Blazer up, and dropped him, on all 4 wheels, about 300 feet off the roadway. If it had taken him another 900 feet of so, and dropped him, he's have been in the lake.
He walked away from the scene, but his Blazer had seen better days.
it happens every years, and I am very impressed by Tornadoes (Twister Sisters is coming on tonight- looks like it's gonna be a story about two female storm chasers- and the footage seems UNREAL.
But, I hope no one gets hit like that Greensburg, Kansas got hit, and wiped off the map last year.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...er_tornado.jpg
When you see that picture, it gives you an idea of how wide, and powerful that storm was, to do this kind of damage. Considering that 95% of the town was deatroyed, I'm just amazed only 11 people were killed. They must've either all left town, or they all have storm cellars- (Which shoudl be Mandtory in Tornado alley).
As powerful as this one in Greensburg was though, it was weak compared to the one that hit Jarrell, TX in 1997. That SOB took the trees, ripped the asphalt from the streets, and not only wiped brick homes from the foundation, but took the foundation as well. That's serious power.
That's part of the reason why I don't really like Spring. Not only does it mean the end of Winter, and a 90-day count down to summer. It brings Tornadoes too.
The damage lets them know Jarrell was at the high end of the F-5 range, and possibly an F-6 (A level not known before, with winds higher than theujita Scale acounted for back in 1997). But, there was no wind measurement taken, so no one knows how powerful that storm was. So, officially, the one that hit Moore, OK still ranks the highest, with 318 MPH winds.
It looked like a low yield nuke went off in that town.
After being weather nut as long as I have been, and knowing the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scale the way I did, I didn't think anyone was in real danger from a Tornado (unless you were outside, or in your car) unless the Tornado was an F-3 or higher.
An F-1/F-2 hit a small town north of McKinney, TX about 2 years ago, and about 10 PM that night, and killed 13 people- if memory serves. That's what's most scary. I mean, at least in the day time, maybe- MAYBE you can see it far enough away to move away from it. But at night, you can't see it, and you can't adjust. Even if you're in your car, you could drive right into one.
A guy I know back home was caught in a twister about 15 years ago, in his car. The storm picked his Chevy Blazer up, and dropped him, on all 4 wheels, about 300 feet off the roadway. If it had taken him another 900 feet of so, and dropped him, he's have been in the lake.
He walked away from the scene, but his Blazer had seen better days.
Last edited by Bighersh; Jan 8, 2008 at 12:06 PM.
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Originally Posted by Bighersh
An F-1/F-2 hit a small town north of McKinney, TX about 2 years ago, and about 10 PM that night, and killed 13 people- if memory serves. That's what's most scary. I mean, at least in the day time, maybe- MAYBE you can see it far enough away to move away from it. But at night, you can't see it, and you can't adjust. Even if you're in your car, you could drive right into one.
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Originally Posted by KSUWildcat
Not to mention I would probably never hear the storm sirens. It took my 2 year old daughter screaming because of the lighting and thunder to wake me up last night around 1:15am. Otherwise I probably would have slept right through the ordeal. At best the loudest clap of thunder would have roused me only for me to back to sleep, under the false pretense that I am safe and sound in my warm bed.