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Title: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Roxy on May 10th, 2004, 9:00pm Thankfully, it was 30 miles from our house. A little place called Waurika, OK. It's a little, bitty one, but isn't it pretty?? http://photothru.com/photo_filedb1/A5/65/F4/A565F4/viewable/A565F4_131CB3E274AD_1.jpg |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Renee on May 10th, 2004, 9:18pm Tracey, Was this today? I got clear blue sky here but supposed to storm the rest of the week. [smiley=huh.gif] [smiley=huh.gif] Renee |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by HypnoticFreddy on May 10th, 2004, 9:59pm I am glad you are ok, but that is f....ing cool!!! I am fascinated by tornados as long as they are not chasing me. I was Meteorology major in college for a while and have always been a weather buff. Thanks for the cool photo! -Scott |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Melissa on May 10th, 2004, 10:52pm uh..ONLY 30 miles?? An "itty bitty pretty one"?? yikes [smiley=eek.gif] |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Gator on May 11th, 2004, 12:46am on 05/10/04 at 22:52:02, Melissa wrote:
Yeah, Mel, in Oklahoma, that thing barely qualifies as a twister. 30 miles is forever away unless it is tracking right towards you. Where I wouldn't want to live is in Moore and Oklahoma City. The month of May is cause for some SERIOUS rattled nerves there. In Oklahoma, we average about 52 tornadoes a year. In 1999 we had 148. On 1 day, May 3 1999, there were about 76 tornadoes in Oklahoma. That was the day that the F5 tornado hit the OKC Metro area. It was on the ground for 4 hours and left a path of destruction 38 miles long with record winds of 318mph. They were seriously considering revamping the tornado scale after that one to add a higher level than F5. OKC and Moore were hit again on May 8, 2003 and a third time on May 9, 2003. Last year we had 78. Gator Gets a little windy here in the spring!!! |
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Title: Cool tool......... Post by Mr.Happy on May 11th, 2004, 1:54am Y'all got a wierd sense of cool. We need to introduce you to toilet paper. And one of them storm cellars wouldn't hurt none, lessen you like them damned flying monkeys. Gave me nightmares, RJ |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Jeepgun on May 11th, 2004, 9:48am WHOO!! Kick-ass! Beautiful.... |
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Title: Re: Cool tool......... Post by Gator on May 11th, 2004, 10:41am on 05/11/04 at 01:54:16, Mr.Happy wrote:
[smiley=smartass.gif] Flying monkeys is Kansas. Toilet paper? What's a toilet? Oh, you mean outhouse! Heck, we got corn cobs for that. Tornadoes are too cool to watch as long as they are in unpopulated areas. It's when they get close to people and property that they get scary. Gator Hell yeah, I've got a storm celler. |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by SFChris on May 11th, 2004, 10:50am Tracey, Makes me glad that I live in earthquake country! Chris |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Luke63 on May 11th, 2004, 11:17am Fascinated by them...watch Storm Stories all the time....would love to see one...froma distance that is. Luke |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by forgetfulnot on May 11th, 2004, 12:52pm Peeps in north Texas aren't strangers to some rather bad ones either, this one leveled Wichita Falls almost 25 years ago. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/storms/19790410/wichitafalls.php Lee |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Roxy on May 11th, 2004, 2:02pm Hey Lee, you beat me to it. I was going to post a picture from that link.... :). I rode that one out from 10 miles away, but my husband was right in the middle of it, hiding under an overpass. All he had left was the clothes he was wearing. That tornado was a mile wide at the base, stayed on the ground for around 1 1/2 hrs (47 miles). It killed 45 people. It was an ugly one. http://photothru.com/photo_filedb1/A5/65/F4/A565F4/viewable/A565F4_131CB3F1BEFC_1.jpg |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Gator on May 11th, 2004, 2:33pm on 05/11/04 at 14:02:31, Roxy wrote:
Man, he's lucky. Contrary to popular belief an overpass is a dangerous place to try to ride out a tornado. I've heard stories of people being sucked out or having debris slammed up into them. |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Jeepgun on May 11th, 2004, 3:42pm Slammed UP INTO them??? Egad... My mind is suddenly filled with the image of someone being turned into a tootsie-pop. *shudder* |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by jonny on May 11th, 2004, 3:58pm HOLY CRAP!!!!! :o |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Renee on May 11th, 2004, 6:45pm I donated blood after the 79 twister in Wichita Falls. Unfortunately, it was MY house, or what was left of it, that made The Weather Channel on Mother's Day 1998. Was a pier and beam house and picked that house up right off it's piers, after a 100+ year old hackberry tree came crashing thru the ceiling. I was in the closet. NOW...I got me a twister shelter in the ground and a brick barn for the ponies. Had 1 hit my house when I was a young 'un too. The garage roof was found 1.5 miles down the road in another pasture. Awww..Texas weather! Ain't it great! |
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Title: Re: This is too cool....(not ch) Post by Jabeen on May 11th, 2004, 7:30pm Very awesome-tornadoes fascinate me but I am happy to keep my distance. We get a few renegade tornadoes out here, but we have our own weather issues! Why do they always seem to hit a trailer park?? |
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