I'm Going to DIE!!!

[Jammrock]

A "we're off to the wizard"-like thunderstorm, complete with tornado production, is heading this way! There's so much lightning that it looks like the sun is coming up.



There's no place like home...
There's no place like home...
There's no place like home...
...

Jammrock

[Elie]

Good luck!

Cheers,
Elie

[Jon P. Inghram]

Saw those this afternoon here in Wichita, looked pretty impressive off on the horizion with overshooting tops and all.

[agallag]

Makes Toronto weather look absolutely peachy. Good luck.

[Dr Mordrid]

That IS tornado weather!!

Don't forget that the winds in an F5 tornado can be 300 mph (~500 kph) or more and the zone of destruction can be up to a mile wide.

I personally saw a nearly mile wide tornado up close in central Texas back in 1972. It sucked the asphalt right off the road where it crossed. They had to turn traffic back & have 'em take another route. If that SOB wasn't an F5 I'll eat my shirt.

Thank GOD we were able to get to a wide underpass & hide.

Dr. Mordrid

[Jon P. Inghram]

Underpasses are generally not a good place to hide from a tornado.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/papers/overpass/slide01.html

[Paddy]

I'm guessing that they are better than, say a field?

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
That IS tornado weather!!

Don't forget that the winds in an F5 tornado can be 300 mph (~500 kph) or more and the zone of destruction can be up to a mile wide.

I personally saw a nearly mile wide tornado up close in central Texas back in 1972. It sucked the asphalt right off the road where it crossed. They had to turn traffic back & have 'em take another route. If that SOB wasn't an F5 I'll eat my shirt.

Thank GOD we were able to get to a wide underpass & hide.

Dr. Mordrid

I think asphalt scouring is one of the defining factors separating F4 from F5. Strange that I don't recall this.. I was 10 years old and living here at the time.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Originally posted by Paddy
I'm guessing that they are better than, say a field?

In some cases, no.

[Greebe]

Re: I'm Going to DIE!!!

Originally posted by Jammrock
There's now place like home...
There's now place like home...
There's now place like home...
...

Jammrock

envisions Jammy with ruby slippers

Lemme guess... you have a TuTu in the closet?

[Jammrock]

No TuTu or ruby red slippers. Sorry to spoil your fantasy Greebe

The thunder and lightning started rolling in heavily at around 20:30 last night. By 21:30 there was so much lighting that when I went into a room with no lights on, 3 out of 4 seconds the room was lit up in so much blue light that it was like the lights were on. And that was with the blinds closed. Shortly thereafter the tornado warning sirens went off and all the local stations went into severe weather reports. They showed a map of places were funnel clouds (the start of a tornado, the only difference being whether it touches the ground or not) had been detected. If you look at that pic from above and put about 75 '+' signs on it in the yellow to red areas, and that's what it looked like.

The rain came in the heaviest around 22:00. The thunder and lightning picked up. The tornado warning ended at 22:45 so I put the baby in the crib and crawled to bed.

At 23:00 I heard 'it'. A noise that shook the house, that was both low and high pitched all at once... a funnel cloud. It lasted only two seconds, but I shot out of bed and looked for tornado sign. There was another half second funnel cloud overhead, and then all was quiet again.

Nothing touched down in the immediate area. The closest tornado touch down was about 10 km away.

That was the biggest, most wicked prairie storm in at least a decade! It's too bad I don't have a really good camera, or I would have taken some pictures that would have knocked your socks off.

There's still a big storm to the north, but no tornado production in that one.

Jammrock

[Greebe]

No TuTu or ruby red slippers. Sorry to spoil your fantasy Greebe

Good... about had visions of you dancing aside that Peter Pan freak over in Orlando

[agallag]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
That IS tornado weather!!

I said it makes Toronto weather look peachy

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Greebe
Good... about had visions of you dancing aside that Peter Pan freak over in Orlando

ROFL

visions?!?!?

Try nightmares