Could someone take a look at a TOR-damage pic ?

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Could someone take a look at a TOR-damage pic ?

#1 Postby Bunkertor » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:42 pm

I want to know if that damage is typical.

http://www.album.de/bild.cfm?action=act ... e=original

I mean this path is really wide..
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#2 Postby brunota2003 » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:24 pm

It looks like it was taken down the path length...it looks like that is not the actual width, but the length instead...cool photo though...looks to be maybe a 1/4 mile wide? not good with measuring distances though...and I could be wrong...(if you know what I mean...)
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#3 Postby Bunkertor » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:02 pm

Indeed, i guessed 300 m, too. Half a mile ist pretty much for germany i think. The pic belongs to my thread in "global".
Are there downburst-signs in it ?
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#4 Postby brunota2003 » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:10 pm

cool...I dont know...what would that look like in tornado damage? anyone know?
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#5 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:16 pm

:eek: DANG!!
cool...I dont know...what would that look like in tornado damage? anyone know?

That's what I'd like to know as well...
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#6 Postby Bunkertor » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:21 pm

TexasStooge wrote::eek: DANG!!
cool...I dont know...what would that look like in tornado damage? anyone know?

What's what I'd like to know as well...


I do understand native speaker´s slang only in parts. Could youd write you´re post differently, please ? I don´t get the point
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#7 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:26 pm

Like what brunota said, it's probably 1/4 mile wide. What's amazing is that the house on the left side of the pic (Not too far from the damage path) managed to stay standing throughout the disaster.
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#8 Postby Bunkertor » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:32 pm

That´s true indeed. A downburst would have damaged the roof, too....

I tend to say tornado. The pic with the pantile sucking in the roof, makes it look like.
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#9 Postby brunota2003 » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:41 pm

well...it could be straight-line winds also...notice the trees all appear to be blown over in one similar direction...however it is a pantile...and I cant tell the direction for sure...maybe a pro met could help?
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#10 Postby vbhoutex » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:08 pm

I've seen that picture and some other pictures of the damage in that area. It appears to me that those are straight line or possibly downburst winds. Normally a tornado path, especially through woods will show some twisting and those are all laying the same way or very near it. It does appear that most of the the trees are snapped off above the ground, which is typical of tornado damage, so that makew me wonder, but my best guess, as an amatuer is straight line winds unless someone has pictures of the twister in that location.
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#11 Postby Bunkertor » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:21 pm

vbhoutex wrote:I've seen that picture and some other pictures of the damage in that area. It appears to me that those are straight line or possibly downburst winds. Normally a tornado path, especially through woods will show some twisting and those are all laying the same way or very near it. It does appear that most of the the trees are snapped off above the ground, which is typical of tornado damage, so that makew me wonder, but my best guess, as an amatuer is straight line winds unless someone has pictures of the twister in that location.


There was another Tornado in that area that night. As to trees, they were twisted. Look:
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