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Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:12 pm
by Texas Snowman
Wichita Falls, Texas tornado on April 10, 1979. Was a violent F4 that killed 45 people.
From Answers.com:
"An F4 tornado struck the heavily populated southern sections of Wichita Falls in the late afternoon on Tuesday, April 10, 1979 (known locally as "Terrible Tuesday").[citation needed] The storm was part of an outbreak that produced 30 tornadoes around the region. Despite having nearly an hour's advance warning that severe weather was imminent, 45 people were killed (25 in vehicles) and 1,800 were injured because the storm arrived just in time for many people to be driving home from work.[citation needed] The tornado left 20,000 people homeless and caused $400 million in damage, a U.S. record not topped by an individual tornado until the F5 Moore-Oklahoma City tornado of May 3, 1999."
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 pm
by Texas Snowman
Dallas, Texas tornado on April 2, 1957.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:26 pm
by Texas Snowman
Radar shot of Moore, Okla. about to be hit by F5 tornado on May 3, 1999.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:30 pm
by Texas Snowman
Bridge Creek radar shot - this is about the time the Norman NWS issued a tornado emergency for southern Oklahoma City on May 3, 1999.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:29 am
by HurricaneBill
June 9, 1953 (57 years ago)
Worcester, MA Tornado
F4 (some suspect it was an F5); 90 dead
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:18 am
by brunota2003
Preliminary Event Summary
June 29, 2004
There was a very unusual tornado during the evening hours of June 29, 2004. The tornado was spotted in the vicinity of Kinston and tracked slowly westward towards LaGrange. It was a very weak tornado rated F0 on the Fujita scale. This landspout type funnel was associated with a low tropped tropical shower, which became more vigorous when it intereacted with the sea-breeze front. There was a visual confirmation of a touchdown near Kinston, with numerous reports of a rotating funnel from Lenoir County Emergency Management, spotters, local media. and the public. The tornado then went on to do very minor damage to a mobile home just east of LaGrange. There was only some weak rotation apparent on radar from the Raleigh NWS office radar. Interestingly, when the tornado/funnel was first occurring, no observations of lightning were detected, and there was not much vertical development of the storm. However, there was strong convergence of unstable air in the vicinity of the spin-up. After interacting with the sea-breeze, the convection intensified and lightning developed. One tornado warning was issued by the NWS in Newport for this event.
For a few more images:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/EventReview ... 040629.php
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:28 am
by brunota2003
Preliminary Event Summary
June 7, 2004
On June 7, 2004, There was a stationary front oriented east to west across Carteret County. There was sufficient instability for the development of convection along and near this boundary. Wind profiles were favorable for waterspout or weak tornadic development. During the late morning, a tornado developed near this boundary over Open Grounds Farm. Later in the afternoon, a waterspout developed near Davis in Core Sound and moved ashore. Both were in sparsely populated areas and did no damage. The Newport/Morehead City NWS Office issued 2 Tornado Warnings for Downeast Carteret County for these two events.
This photo is personally one of my favorite all time tornado photos:
SEA MONSTER!!!
There are a few more photos here of this and the other tornado:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/EventReview ... 040607.phpAn event on June 4, 2004 produced a couple tornadoes in NE NC
Damage to a marina it hit:
More photos and details:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/mhx/EventReview ... 040604.php
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:10 am
by thetruesms
vbhoutex wrote:IIRC, Parkersburg was completely destroyed and has not been rebuilt.
Nope, it's still there and rebuilding. Although tragedy struck them again last year when their iconic football coach (several of his players are currently in the NFL) was murdered by a former student
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:30 pm
by vbhoutex
thetruesms wrote:vbhoutex wrote:IIRC, Parkersburg was completely destroyed and has not been rebuilt.
Nope, it's still there and rebuilding. Although tragedy struck them again last year when their iconic football coach (several of his players are currently in the NFL) was murdered by a former student
Was there another EF5 up in that part of the country in the last 2 years? I distinctly remember a show talking about the town not being rebuilt. It was a very small town, maybe in SD or ND.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:47 pm
by thetruesms
vbhoutex wrote:Was there another EF5 up in that part of the country in the last 2 years? I distinctly remember a show talking about the town not being rebuilt. It was a very small town, maybe in SD or ND.
Last EF5 before that was Greensburg, whose rebuilding got a cable series. Before that, you have to predate the EF scale for a 5, and go back to May 3, 1999.
Perhaps you're thinking of the 2008 Picher, OK tornado? I know that the tornado, combined with the fact that it's a superfund site ended up resulting in the town's closure.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:43 pm
by Aquawind
Manchester, SD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,_South_DakotaAs of 2007, the town lies barren and abandoned. There are no plans to rebuild. All that currently remains of Manchester is the slab foundations of demolished houses and the wind-twisted town limits sign, sitting in a sea of empty farmland. Manchester is now an official natural disaster ghost town. Although empty and depopulated, Manchester has not been "wiped off the map" yet, as it remains on both the government rolls and maps pending the next Federal census.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:25 am
by dizzyfish
Holy crap - that gives me goose bumps!
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:03 am
by AyameTaylor
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:05 pm
by brunota2003
AyameTaylor wrote:Holy crap THOSE give me goose bumps Great pics-- Is it just me or does that tornado look like some thing out of a horror movie-- like crappy cgi done right?
Haha! Especially the second one. As I said, the first one is one of my favorites (because you can see the inside of it and it looks really cool
). Luckily, it was in a field and only rated as an F0!
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:10 pm
by Nicko999
Elie, Manitoba (Canada
) June 22, 2007
Canada's only F5 tornado to date.
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:13 am
by AyameTaylor
These are some more cool video's from Youtube.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBd0sG559aA[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iofIQTX7o&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UmxSzWaLPc&feature=channel[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVUNTW3VBPw&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F64epWjf80o&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxTWc0ShAg[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv8PciVvYEo&feature=channel[/youtube]
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:23 pm
by HurricaneBill
International tornadoes:
2009 Rajkanika Tornado (India)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0y1xOrUiFA[/youtube]
2006 Waterspout moves onshore in Sydney and becomes a tornado (Australia)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngbWU1GuCfM[/youtube]
2005 Wedge tornado in Sao Paulo (Brazil)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8m6vYkSFk
Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:38 am
by Bunkertor
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Re: Tornado pictures
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:12 am
by artist
Ft. Worth tornado March 28, 2000
here is a link to photos of the destruction-
http://www.jeberly.com/PhotosByJohnEber ... 000-2.htmlone example -
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:26 am
by KWT
Some amazing videos there online...
The UK isn't well known for decent strength tornadoes, get mainly weak ones though we've had a few F2s recently and there have been suspected F3-F4s in the past as well...
Also whilst rare we do sometimes get outbreaks, maybe not to the same strength as the US of course but our biggest outbreak was 105 tornadoes in the space of just *6hrs* in 1981 with the strongest being an F2
Longest single track was by a borderline F2/3 was 107kms, but it went far further as a funnel cloud.