Two minutes on Google searching 'Super Outbreak 1974 map' (you have heard of the '74 Super Outbreak, havent you?) found this:
http://www.april31974.com/images/mapillinois.gif
Check up around Cincy - you might need to paste the map into Word and zoom it up to see the intensity numbers - but lots of F3, F4 and F5 tornadoes up that way.
So in other words, this outbreak was very comparable to the Super Outbreak in 1974 in terms of number of fatalities and number of tornadoes and number of major tornadoes, including a concentration of a lot of strong tornadoes in one area - the Super Outbreak was a bit more spread out overall, but covered much of the same area as was hit this week. In other words, nothing new or unique to it.
That's the problem with you conspiracy types, quix - if you spend a fraction of the time researching science as you spend on abovetopsecret, you'd realize there are historical parallels to what happened Wednesday.
Making your link clickable
http://www.april31974.com/images/mapillinois.gif
Will check it out.
Joya’s sister reported none of the old timers in their area could recall anything similar in their entire lives.
Most of the folks I’ve heard from assert the same thing from such areas.
An impressive number of storms. Were those numbered items all tornadoes?
1. That’s a much larger area.
2. Such technologies were operating, to some degree back then.
It's not something that happens regularly by any stretch of the imagination.
Why all the vitriol against fellow FReepers? Is there some concerted effort to drive people from this site because it's sure starting to look that way?
