Tornado Damage Path (Satellite Image)

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[PJ-Comix]

Large, violent tornadoes can leave scars on the earth that are easy to spot on high-resolution satellite imagery. The segment of the damage path depicted above is from an EF4 tornado that moved near Berry, Alabama during the Superoutbreak of 2011 on April 27. The damage path was 116 miles long. (Image, information credit: NASA Earth Observatory (EO-1 satellite))

[PJ-Comix]

What's interesting is how long the tornado's path is and the fact that it can be seen from space.

[PJ-Comix]

I forgot to add that what is also interesting is how STRAIGHT the path seems to be. Very geometrically straight.

[Vor Lady]

Cool pic!

[PJ-Comix]

It was like the tornado was on about a STRAIGHT 45 degree path and wasn’t going to veer a bit.

[Jemian]

We're still feeling the damage from all the tornadoes of 2011. The tornadoes themselves didn't damage my house at all. Nothing! But we just got the bill for our annual homeowners premium. It is a 120% increase.

[dirtboy]

A supercell with its top stuck in a strong jet stream will do that. And that is what gives the storm so much power.

[Cyber Liberty]

Global Warming. Bush’s Fault.

[Not The Other One]

That is amazing. May this be the last one Alabama ever sees.

[CORedneck]

Back in Jan, I was driving through Georgia between Macon and Atlanta and there was one part where the trees were literally stripped and destroyed and I tried to look for it on Google satellite. I didn’t see anything but I figured it was a tornado that passed through. I forgot the mile markers which would have made it easier to find.

I also remember almost 10 years ago was the Evansville, IN tornado and one of my friends lives near the path. His house was untouched where as like 5 houses down, houses were literally trashed ! By US 41 on the KY side, there is a filling station with a tobacco shop, it was untouched but it was also next to the path. A piece of wood went into the metal in the gas island and was there for several years until some work was done.

[rightly_dividing]

120% increase? just wait till they drop your wind coverage altogether. Then the crying really begins. After Katrina my homeowners policy dropped the wind coverage altogether, so the only company left that offered wind was 300% higher. And that was a deal compared to buying wind coverage from the state's wind consortium (400% increase just for wind, to be added to a windless HO policy). I was not waterfront, but my county was coastal and I was just barely halfway between north and south, distance wise. I did not have a Katrina claim, either.

[Jemian]

That is rotten. I have such a low regard for insurance companies and everything they do makes it go even lower.

[laxcoach]

"Back in Jan, I was driving through Georgia between Macon and Atlanta and there was one part where the trees were literally stripped and destroyed and I tried to look for it on Google satellite. I didn’t see anything but I figured it was a tornado that passed through. I forgot the mile markers which would have made it easier to find."

I've been driving between FL and GA on that route 2-6 times per year since 1990. I just noticed that patch last year. It must be new.

And it is scary wide. Before I saw your post, I was looking for it on Google earth too. The imagery is too old I guess.

[laxcoach]

The georgia I-75 destruction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdwOHMuLn74

[No Truce With Kings]

God's vacuum cleaner.

[Lou L]

I remember heading back to my duty station in Jacksonville, Florida, back in 1989. Driving on I-95 southbound through South Carolina, on a trip that I had taken many times before, everything seemed normal and pristine. All of a sudden, I entered a war zone: fallen trees, road signs and billboards flattened, and any structures were either smashed or heavily damaged. Hurrican Hugo had passed through there on its way inland. The “width” of destruction seemed to be at least several miles wide.

[yawningotter]

I drive through the path of the EF3-4 tornado that hit near my house on the same day as the Berry storm fairly regularly. What is most amazing is that there is a double wide in the path of destruction that only suffered some minor roof damage while all around there is nothing but downed trees. Those are the kind of people I want praying for me the next time something serious comes my way.