Tornado Week

bolthandle

I see where the Weather Channel is going to have this from March 7-13.

This will be some of the best footage ever.

The Oklahoma City one, I feel was the worst one ever to hit the US in mordern times.

If you fasinated by tornados and can get the Weather Channel, this will be worth seeing.

Bolt

PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER

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I think the biggest tornado and most damaging was the one that hit Brandenberg Kentucky and crossed the ohio river and hit Xenia OHIO April of 74 , Killed 39 people in brandenberg alone.

quote: The Xenia tornado of 1974 one of many tornadoes of the super outbreak 1974 has become the most studied tornado in history. Xenia Ohio survived the greatest natural disaster recorded in the 20th century, changed history, and flourishes today.


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H.S. 10-X

Here's some info on the one that hit here back in '96. It was a pretty good sized one. I went with a friend of mine to help clean up his grandmothers place, and it was surreal. I remember going through one neighborhood where every house was completely gone, only the foundations were left. But there was one house that only had a few shingles torn off the roof. Saw a telephone pole stuck through one house, and a red pickup truck stuck through the roof of another.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jeda/FortSmithTornado.html
http://www.ardemgaz.com/cgi/genphoto.plx?prev/tornado



"If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know"- Kansas

Rebel_James

Since I live in Georgia's 'Tornado Ally' I don't need to watch the Weather Channel to see a tornado.



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-- Gen. James Longstreet

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The one I posted was an F5 catagory, I think that is the baddest. only one but it is classified as inconceivable.

F1) Moderate Tornado (73 - 112 mph)
Moderate damage: The lower limit (73 mph) is the beginning of hurricane wind speed, peels surfaces of roofs, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, and moving autos pushed off roads.

(F2) Significant Tornado (112 - 157 mph)
Considerable damage: Roofs torn off the frames of houses, mobile homes demolished, boxcars pushed over, large trees snapped or uprooted, and heavy cars lifted off ground and thrown

(F3) Severe Tornado (158 - 206 mph)
Severe damage: Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses, trains overturned, most trees in forest uprooted, and heavy cars lifted off ground and thrown.

(F4) Devastating Tornado (207 - 260 mph)
Devastating damage: Well-constructed houses leveled, structures blown off weak foundations, and cars and other large objects thrown about.

(F5) Incredible Tornado (261 - 318 mph)
Incredible damage: Strong frame houses are lifted off foundations and carried a considerable distance and disintegrated, automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters, and trees debarked.

(F6+) Inconceivable Tornado (319 - 379 mph)
The maximum wind speed of tornadoes is not expected to reach the F6 wind speeds.


"It is hard to soar with Eagles when your surrounded by Turkeys"

"I dont care how thin you make a pancake, it still has two sides"

"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows.

H.S. 10-X

Any tornado (Devil's Tail) is a bad tornado. We were lucky here that there was little loss of life. There was much debate as to whether it was an F4 or F3 it was 1/2 mile in diameter. Not only that, but the sirens sounded just mere seconds before it struck, most people were in there beds asleep. Tornado season is just now starting here.


"If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know"- Kansas