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A tornado passed directly over my parent's home a few days ago. Luckily it was a small one and didn't do much damage to the town. My father said the scariest part was that the tornado came cloaked in a torrential downpour. You couldn't see if you were about to get smacked.
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Easily the most frightening tornado video I've ever seen, especially since you never see the tornado: https://youtu.be/cQnvxJZucds Joplin, May 22, 2011. Absolutely terrifying. What it looked like the next day: https://youtu.be/W-P4P68YyNM View Quote Wow, that last video was like a tiny, beautiful oasis in a desert of twisted metal and wood. |
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Man, that was cool when they found the dog alive...... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes They found a dog alive in the rubble four houses down, seven days after the tornado. OCPD was in the area and rushed the dog to the vet, but the little guy did not make it. Don't know how but our dog somehow survived, we got her back on the 22nd but she did not live though the summer. |
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They found a dog alive in the rubble four houses down, seven days after the tornado. OCPD was in the area and rushed the dog to the vet, but the little guy did not make it. Don't know how but our dog somehow survived, we got her back on the 22nd but she did not live though the summer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
They found a dog alive in the rubble four houses down, seven days after the tornado. OCPD was in the area and rushed the dog to the vet, but the little guy did not make it. Don't know how but our dog somehow survived, we got her back on the 22nd but she did not live though the summer. |
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And from the "Too Damn Close" file, the Henryville, IN tornado, also from 2012: https://youtu.be/BPh3IRQGsAI View Quote Here's the aftermath of the tornado that hit Holton, Indiana, part of the same storm system as the Henryville tornado. The house I'm working on is right between Holton and Versailles, so I was pretty close to this. It wasn't an F-5, but it caused a lot of damage and death. |
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I was a little over a mile away from the F5 that went through Andover, KS on April 26, 1991.
Not an experience I would like to repeat but it redefined the word awesome in my vocabulary. The sound was unreal and it just crackled with power. By the time it hit Andover it was a 600 yard wide MF'n pimp hand of God. I was directly north of the city and for a moment it seemed to stop moving and started getting bigger. It had turned straight north toward us then after a few seconds resumed an easterly direction. Flying overhead it looked like the Xindi weapon from Enterprise. |
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Xenia, Ohio F5 from April 3rd, 1974 that killed 32 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Xenia_tornado.jpg http://www.ohiohistoryhost.org/ohiomemory/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/xenia1-1024x639.jpg View Quote My grandfather’s sister was killed in Xenia. She was at work. My grandparents had just bought a house in town. The story goes that they watched the multiple twisters move through town and their house was hit. Took the house to the foundation except 3 walls of the dinning room they were sitting in. |
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The 40th anniversary of the Jordan, Iowa F5 is this June. It narrowly missed my hometown, Boone, and completely wiped out Jordan. Fortunately no one was killed. There are only a couple houses there now. My mom remembers seeing it on her way into town. This was the first time an anti-cyclonic tornado was filmed and then studied. There was the large F5 parent tornado along with at least two other smaller tornados accompanying it, one of them being anti-cyclonic. https://youtu.be/YGrhwlYSWUU <a href="http://s23.photobucket.com/user/thunderw21/media/Mobile%20Uploads/577886998_e26aa6f8af_zpsdbnpsh8f.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/thunderw21/Mobile%20Uploads/577886998_e26aa6f8af_zpsdbnpsh8f.jpg</a> <a href="http://s23.photobucket.com/user/thunderw21/media/Mobile%20Uploads/tkDpT12_zpsvkjzsz3r.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/thunderw21/Mobile%20Uploads/tkDpT12_zpsvkjzsz3r.jpg</a> View Quote Yep. |
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dang man, As much as a person would think of how cool it would be to see one, But not near my house.
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I have to admit I didn't really think it was going to hit my house when I started that thread ..I was joking for the most part and then the sumbitch came right at me...Most of the houses to the north of us were salvageable ...the ones to the south of us were totally wiped..It was our starter house and the kids were getting big so it worked out <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg</a> <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg</a> View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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That thread VooDooChile started in 2013 on Moore took a surprising turn First post "should I leave" Page 15 "Im leaving Page 30 "House destroyed" I have to admit I didn't really think it was going to hit my house when I started that thread ..I was joking for the most part and then the sumbitch came right at me...Most of the houses to the north of us were salvageable ...the ones to the south of us were totally wiped..It was our starter house and the kids were getting big so it worked out <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg</a> <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg</a> Holy hell I never saw this. Glad you made it out. |
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That thread VooDooChile started in 2013 on Moore took a surprising turn First post "should I leave" Page 15 "Im leaving Page 30 "House destroyed" Found the thread. |
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I have to admit I didn't really think it was going to hit my house when I started that thread ..I was joking for the most part and then the sumbitch came right at me...Most of the houses to the north of us were salvageable ...the ones to the south of us were totally wiped..It was our starter house and the kids were getting big so it worked out <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg</a> <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg</a> View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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That thread VooDooChile started in 2013 on Moore took a surprising turn First post "should I leave" Page 15 "Im leaving Page 30 "House destroyed" I have to admit I didn't really think it was going to hit my house when I started that thread ..I was joking for the most part and then the sumbitch came right at me...Most of the houses to the north of us were salvageable ...the ones to the south of us were totally wiped..It was our starter house and the kids were getting big so it worked out <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/casa_zps300caa1b.jpg</a> <a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/Voodoochile65/media/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/Voodoochile65/IMAG0121_zpsf1783309.jpg</a> Glad your ok, I was freaking out, I was at work, my wife and son was in our house and my stepdaughters were in Briarwood. Here's were my wife rode it out I'm very very lucky. I think my vehicles blocked enough wind to keep the interior walls up. Every house around us except for my two neighbors were flattened. |
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I personally had 3 family members either lose or have heavily damaged homes from the Joplin tornado. I walked in about a mile and a half to my moms destroyed house to get her because I couldn't get closer by car. This is about 45 minutes after. I saw stuff I never need to see again. I walked right by that convenience store from the earlier video.
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Btw, here's a fascinating thread full of info about large, violent tornadoes.
http://www.talkweather.com/forums/index.php?/topic/58889-significant-tornado-events/ |
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Some frightening footage from the Fairdale, Ill. tornado almost a year ago. I've never seen this before. This is a good example of the sound a tornado creates.
Incredibly the man photographing it somehow survived but his wife did not. Edit: at about 30 to 35 seconds you can see multiple vortices in the center of the tornado. Nasty business. https://youtu.be/ceI8FOK3Qrs |
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isnt there a theoretical F6? The speaker only goes to 10, it cant go to 11 From Wiki (I know, I know...) "Since the Fujita scale is based on the severity of damage resulting from high winds, an F6 tornado is a purely theoretical construct. Property damage cannot exceed total destruction, which constitutes an F5. (A tornado with windspeeds greater than 319 miles per hour is theoretically possible, and the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Tornado may have been such an event. However, no such wind speed has ever been recorded and that measurement was not near ground level.)" |
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been too close, to too many, too many times,catoosa twice in front of the big one on a sportbike and on the back streets off pine street in front of the small one years later,a few small ones in various places over the years also,friend of a friend had their house hit, nothing left but a slab,it even took their above ground tornado shelter
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I was expecting a hot chick and F5 on the keyboard to reload the image.
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Two hit Anderson Hills, near Harvest, AL - '95 & '11 - and I am not exaggerating - directly on the same line both times - not even the width of a pencil line difference on the map - that place is snake bit: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/04/in_harvest_in_less_than_20_sec.html |
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A slow moving F5 is a slow moving super sand blaster and vacuum.
This is a google image of a road that was hit by the Jerrell, Texas F5 which I think is considered to be the most powerful tornado ever seen by man. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sklee/5659337940/in/photostream/ I have a pic in my photo bucket account on an engine block that is sitting in the middle of a field that is stripped bare of about 12 to 18" of topsoil. People lost cars that were never found and the investigators believe they are sandblasted completely out of existence. |
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http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mrx/?n=tor_outbreak_map
The orange line south of Abingdon. Wife and I were in a Walmart on a straight SW line from that orange line. I knew there was a warning, but we needed something and that was the most convienent place. As we were standing in the checkout line, got notification on my phone of tornado. Store manager or whoever was ranking employee locked the doors and huddled everyone in the center of the store. Not the best place to be, but I couldn't get out. As soon as the roar ended, we got out of the store. Every tree in the parking lot was stripped of leaves. My truck's hood looked like a golf ball from the hail. Thankful to this day that what hit Glade Spring didn't get started a few miles earlier. |
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Two hit Anderson Hills, near Harvest, AL - '95 & '11 - and I am not exaggerating - directly on the same line both times - not even the width of a pencil line difference on the map - that place is snake bit: View Quote Lawrence County Alabama suffered two F5 tornaderz in 1974. One man was rescued from rubble in the first one, taken to a church for treatment and then killed when the second one came through about 2 hours later. Lawrence was hit again in 2011 with another F5. North Alabama seems to get the big ones often. |
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I personally had 3 family members either lose or have heavily damaged homes from the Joplin tornado. I walked in about a mile and a half to my moms destroyed house to get her because I couldn't get closer by car. This is about 45 minutes after. I saw stuff I never need to see again. I walked right by that convenience store from the earlier video. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile View Quote School let-out early on Apr 27 2011 in N. Alabama. An employee of my sister had her boy and girl (in high school) come to work to wait it out. After hours of nothing happening (as is typical) and after begging incessantly, the employee finally let them go to another family member's house. The house they were in was swept completely away (F5 damage). The employee had to drive home, thinking the worst as the radio reported Phil Campbell Alabama to be destroyed. Cell phones didn't reach the kids. Land lines were static. I can only imagine. The employee tells the story about how she thought everything was OK. Thinking "Oh it's not that bad" as she neared her own house. Then the damage got steadily worse until coming to her mother's house (I thnk...it was family). The employee remembered being confused because the landmarks one subconsciously uses are all gone. Anyway, I don't think she found her kids. I think rescuers had just located them in a pasture behind where the house was. She heard people holler'n in he pasture and when she got there, the boy was partially disemboweled and impaled by a CD or DVD that was still in his forearm between radius and ulna. Both children survived. |
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A slow moving F5 is a slow moving super sand blaster and vacuum. This is a google image of a road that was hit by the Jerrell, Texas F5 which I think is considered to be the most powerful tornado ever seen by man. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sklee/5659337940/in/photostream/ I have a pic in my photo bucket account on an engine block that is sitting in the middle of a field that is stripped bare of about 12 to 18" of topsoil. People lost cars that were never found and the investigators believe they are sandblasted completely out of existence. View Quote There's a reason F5 damage is categorized as "incredible". I remember seeing a photo of a car that was just the uni-body. Not even the steering column was still in it and it was filled with mud. |
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I saw a crossover SUV type vehicle wrapped, as in tightly, sideways... around an old oak tree, what was left of the tree anyways. Exactly how fast would the impact have to be to accomplish that. The tornado ripped the concrete parking stops at the hospital parking lot free of their re-bar moorings, and threw them hundreds of yards. At a main intersection a half mile or so from that convenience store video earlier, it stripped the pavement. Crazy stuff.
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I remember Xenia - that was bad.
Another outbreak I remember was the 1984 outbreak in Wisconsin that basically vacuumed up the town of Barneveld. The tornado was responsible for nine deaths and nearly 200 injuries in Barneveld while causing about $25 million in damage. In total, all three churches (the Congregational United Church of Christ, the Lutheran Church, and the Roman Catholic Church), 93 homes were destroyed as well as 17 businesses out of the town's 18, including the library, municipal building, fire station, bank, and post office. The village's water tower, though damaged, was not toppled by the winds. In addition, 64 other homes were badly damaged. The F5 damage occurred at a cul-de-sac on the northeast side of town. A cluster of several newly built homes were completely swept away at this location. Trees were debarked and vehicles were thrown and mangled. The Lutheran Church was completely leveled as well.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Barneveld,_Wisconsin_tornado_outbreak#cite_note-5][5][/url] Some of the debris including paper work were later found about 135 miles away from the village. The National Weather Service in Madison reported the next day that the frequency of lightning flashes in the storm visible from Madison exceeded 200 per minute, the flashes running together into a strobe-like effect, as mentioned in media reports and books about the disaster. I gotta say, I'd love to see video of THAT! |
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My coworkers are already giving me shit about picking to travel to OKLAHOMA right in the middle of tornado season.
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He says, "Oh my God" like the jihadists chant, "Allahuakbar."
What we do with toilet paper God does with tornadoes or tsunamis. |
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[ Glad your ok, I was freaking out, I was at work, my wife and son was in our house and my stepdaughters were in Briarwood. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/corranq/Benny1pics535_zpse4de1060.jpg Here's were my wife rode it out http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/corranq/Benny1pics559_zps34b73eeb.jpg I'm very very lucky. I think my vehicles blocked enough wind to keep the interior walls up. Every house around us except for my two neighbors were flattened. View Quote I was just south of 4th street a few hundred yards east of the highway..Looks like you got the worst of it for sure..Fortunately my wife teaches in Norman so my kids get to go to school there. I worked the night shift so I was gearing up for work (and jacking around on Arfcom apparently) Decided to make a run for it with the dog (pretty easy actually except the king sized hail almost knocked me out) ..After going to Norman and dropping the dog off at my wife's school I came back up to Moore to see what was left of the neighborhood. |
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When I was 12 I drove up from DFW to help clean up the aftermath of the 1999 Moore Tornado, I vividly remember driving though a normal town with no sign of damage to complete devastation, there was an intersection as we entered the path with a giant tree at
the corner that was devoid of branches, bark, had a piece of sheet metal cut into it, and a car wrapped around the base. I remember cleaning up a destroyed house ( we mainly looked for valuables with the homeowners and burned the rest) and looking at the lot next door and commenting that they must of cleaned up quick because there was nothing but a concrete foundation, the homeowner told me while chocking up a bit that no one had cleaned it up, the tornado did that, my mom later told me that they found the dead little girl from the house a couple fields away the day previous. Ever since than I have been very curious about Tornado's, and scared to death of them, I always give a sigh of relieve in the spring that I do not live in an area that has them anymore. |
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Two hit Anderson Hills, near Harvest, AL - '95 & '11 - and I am not exaggerating - directly on the same line both times - not even the width of a pencil line difference on the map - that place is snake bit: http://image.al.com/home/bama-media/width960/img/huntsville-times/photo/-3dc4472fcf53ec06.jpg http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/04/in_harvest_in_less_than_20_sec.html View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Two hit Anderson Hills, near Harvest, AL - '95 & '11 - and I am not exaggerating - directly on the same line both times - not even the width of a pencil line difference on the map - that place is snake bit: http://image.al.com/home/bama-media/width960/img/huntsville-times/photo/-3dc4472fcf53ec06.jpg http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/04/in_harvest_in_less_than_20_sec.html They never replaced part of the Anderson Hills wall along Hwy 53, it's still broken and left to this day. There's still one empty home lot as well, they replaced the destroyed home. It's just north of the Hwy 53 entrance. |
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