Historic outbreak Sunday: The aftermath

conestogo_flood · #861 Postby **conestogo_flood** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:06 am

F0- 26
F1- 19
F2- 14
F3- 11
F4- 1
F5- 0

71 confirmed.

#862 Postby **CrazyC83** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:46 am

I've figured out that the length of the St. Mary tornado that killed 2 last Saturday night was over 55 miles long! It was surveyed in three sections.

isobar · #863 Postby **isobar** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:07 pm

It's interesting to compare the strength of each tornado against its size and track. Logic would state that the largest and longest track tornadoes would be the strongest, but not so. For example, look at the one that tracked 40 miles through Barton, Dade, Cedar, Polk, and Hickory counties in SW MO. It was only a weak F0 and 30 yards wide.

A THIRD TORNADO TOUCHDOWN OCCURRED FROM BOSTON MISSOURI (BARTON
COUNTY) TO 3 MILES EAST OF WEAUBLEAU (HICKORY COUNTY). THIS TORNADO
DID NOT TOUCH THE GROUND VERY MUCH BUT TREE DAMAGE WAS EVIDENT ALONG
ITS 40 MILE TRACK. ITS MAXIMUM WIDTH WAS ABOUT 30 YARDS WIDE AND
INTENSITY LEVEL WAS ON THE LOW END OF F0. AN ADDITIONAL SURVEY WILL
BE ACCOMPLISHED ALONG THIS TRACK TO DETERMINE OTHER MORE SPECIFIC
DAMAGE.

MAXIMUM INTENSITY: F0
MAXIMUM WIDTH: 30 YARDS
TOTAL PATH LENGTH: 40 MILES

#864 Postby **simplykristi** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:04 pm

I am not trying to be argumentative here at all. I rather have a 'copter in the sky in addition to the eyes on the ground. I think that the guys in the 'copters can see a lot. I don't think that you all really get how thse guys handle the storms.. They do NOT fly into the storms. They are 3 to 5 miles from the storm. They are not idiots. It is no different than someone on the ground. This is just my take.

Kristi

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #865 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:36 pm

The tornadoe can move very fast...In hail can go along ways from the storm..So they may not be idiots but they could very well get it.

wxmann_91 · #866 Postby **wxmann_91** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:00 pm

With the help of this outbreak, the prelim tornado count for March has already exceeded the tornado count from May of last year. This is probably overestimated by around 50-60, even so, that lands us with ~110 tornadoes. Frighteningly, this is comparable to the 115 from May (that is a final count). And another event could easily push our tornado total well past that.

For comparison, the three-year average for March is 49 tornadoes, and for May 389 tornadoes.

conestogo_flood · #867 Postby **conestogo_flood** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:01 am

Oh my Gosh...

WaitingForSiren · #868 Postby **WaitingForSiren** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:49 am

666! LOL.

But wow...140...just wow.

wxmann_91 · #869 Postby **wxmann_91** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:08 pm

Geez that's Crazy...

If even only half of the reports are confirmed tornadoes, that will be a huge outbreak.

And 666, that's plain creepy.

48 tornadoes confirmed from this outbreak, one less than the normal entire March average (that occurred in one day!).

Other big outbreak days:
3/9: 6
3/11:12
3/13: 8

This brings the total of confirmed March tornadoes to 74. We might see a couple of more events before March ends.

(info of confirmed tornadoes courtesy of Sam Sagnella's website)

WXBUFFJIM · #870 Postby **WXBUFFJIM** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:32 pm

This was an amazing outbreak and considering that just 12 people died in an outbreak this widespread and devastating is really saying alot about advanced warning and very good forecasting in advance.

Jim

WXBUFFJIM · #871 Postby **WXBUFFJIM** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:35 pm

As for the total number of confirmed tornado reports, if we're talking 71 tornadoes confirmed in this outbreak, then this would be the largest March tornado outbreak ever. An outbreak in March 1976 produced 68 tornadoes and it appears we will surpass that number making this the biggest tornado outbreak ever in March in the United States.

Amazing to see that the same areas that got severe wx last weekend could see snow SUNDAY night into MONDAY. As calender spring starts in the midwest and central plains, it sure doesn't feel like it.

Jim

#872 Postby **Stephanie** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:54 pm

Last year's tornado "season" was mild. I hope this year isn't going to make up for last year! :eek:

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #873 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:56 pm

Wow is all I got to say.

#874 Postby **george_r_1961** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:15 pm

simplykristi wrote:I am not trying to be argumentative here at all. I rather have a 'copter in the sky in addition to the eyes on the ground. I think that the guys in the 'copters can see a lot. I don't think that you all really get how thse guys handle the storms.. They do NOT fly into the storms. They are 3 to 5 miles from the storm. They are not idiots. It is no different than someone on the ground. This is just my take.

Kristi

Kristi another danger from being too close to a thunderstorm is lightning. Lighting has been known to strike many miles away from the storm. If a helicopter gets hit its all over for the crew and any one the ground where it crashes.

Gorky · #875 Postby **Gorky** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:38 pm

I don't think helicopters are particularly susceptible to lightning. I've only heard of 1 plane being brought down by lightning, and never heard of a helicopter being taken down. Planes and Helicopters get hit all the time by lightning so I'm sure I would have heard about this more often if it was an issue

#876 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:00 pm

when i was 10 i was flying from tampa to atlanta and my plane got struck by lightning, it was kinda cool even though we lost electric for a second or two

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