Posted on 05/20/2013 4:54:37 PM PDT by stockpirate
NO LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE YET,
They do have them, and the ones that don't, have strengthed portions of the structures for shelter. But this was a huge, powerful tornado (most likely EF5, from what I have seen on TV) and there is really nothing you can do to protect yourself from that powerful of a tornado, expect to get far underground. These are the ones that raze any structure to the ground, winds over 260 MPH. The most powerful winds ever recorded in a tornado were 318 MPH, in the tornado that came through Moore in 1999, on nearly the same path.
They’ll blame it on the sequester. Anything to distract from all the other stuff going.
I have seen some old fashioned storm cellars with a L door way. A sharp turn from the front. Was supposed to help.
Don’t know though.
Sundown
Don't befool yourself. You cannot outrun a tornado. What an idiotic statement.
The TriState Tornado is nearly inconceivable. The strange thing was the very high number of country folks caught in the open by it. Normally, they are the type that are very weather-savvy, but the storm was so wide they did not recognize it as a tornado, they just thought a very dark cloud was approaching until it was too late. There are several sites that document it, they are fascinating, but scary as hell.
Oh no, Moore again? They were hit by an EF5 in 1999 that was the strongest tornado, by wind speed, ever actually measured ANYWHERE in the world. Almost 320 mph wind speed. According to Wikipedia, this is the fifth tornado in 15 years to hit Moore—1998, the 1999 EF5, 2003, 2010, and today.
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I'm with you... Schools in Tornado Alley should have shelters for their students.
I shudder to think what the toll would have been if it happened at night when more residents would have been home.
Obambi can keep "his" money. We in Oklahoma don't need it, don't want it. We take care of our own.
Thanks so much, sweetest you.
I spotted storms for a summer.
Short answer is you can, in certain situations. We were taught (in Nebraska) to go 90 degrees away from the funnel if you didn’t have a place to shelter. Or drive like a bat out of Hades if you had to.
Something like this though you don’t have much to run to. There are not many basements in that part of the world.
This is just heart breaking. All the money we spend on schools, and yet most do not have adequate protection from tornado type weather or the extra specs for earthquakes.
Our community has been lucky. In spite of the leveling of several shopping centers and the elementary school over the years, we have not had huge fatalities. My daughter was in third grade when the tornado hit the elementary school. Fortunately school was not in session.
I pray for all these people who are experiencing such awful losses. It’s a real tragedy.
I heard it was 4 but maybe this makes 5.
Pink to that tornadohistory link for you too.
Nope.
If it was, there would be no questions about where on the EF scale a storm scored.....but the scoring is always done post-storm by experts on the ground after damage surveys.
Doppler radar has the ability to measure approximate wind speeds. Tornadoes have very distinctive echoes on Doppler (if they can electronically filter out the radar image of the debris ball if it’s on the ground) and the wind speed mode of the radar can generally give a pretty close estimate of actual speeds, at least higher off the ground.
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Measured just above the ground by nearby mobile radar. The facts are well-known and not in dispute.
The year before I moved away from Nebraska, my bride (girlfriend at the time) and I saw a storm level a small town outside of Lincoln Nebraska. Happened late at night.
But the sirens went off, and people sheltered in the basement. Only woman that died was an old woman who had her hearing aides out.
It was an EF4. Nothing left but the foundations. My friend’s parents lived there, and they came up from the shelter and said it was like the town was never there.
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