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1974 Tornado Super Outbreak Part 2??...
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk_0600.gif ^ | 3/30/23 | basalt

Posted on 03/30/2023 6:36:22 AM PDT by basalt

this friday is looking like it could be a repeat of the historic 1974 Outbreak....the threat area almost identical. And just 3 days from the actual date. Still stunned by what happened in Mississippi last week..


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: downsouth; outbreak; pray; tornadoes
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To: lepton

i read that when the greenish tint happens, its a sign of incredibly high cloud tops...signs of super cells.


21 posted on 03/30/2023 7:40:20 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: mylife

My house was hit by the May 2019 EF4 that hit Dayton, which was bad, but I would say that the Xenia tornado ( just a stones throw away ) was much worse.


22 posted on 03/30/2023 7:42:44 AM PDT by j_guru
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To: Thank You Rush

the Xenia storm caught fore casters off guard because of its power. While Ohio does get tornadoes, the powerful ones usually happen further South. Plus, the area of the outbreak was surprising...you had fatalities from Guin, Alabama to Windsor, Ontario.


23 posted on 03/30/2023 7:45:18 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: basalt

The one I’ll never forget is the Jarrell, Texas tornado. There was literally nothing left but slabs.


24 posted on 03/30/2023 7:46:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: basalt
Whoops wrong thread.


25 posted on 03/30/2023 7:48:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: dfwgator

just watched a doc on that storm...they said, if theres any such thing as an F-6 tornado, Jarrell was it....not only swept clean, but majority of the debris was never found. I guess it granulated and just fell as dust else where...Lord.


26 posted on 03/30/2023 7:52:45 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: central_va

my new Rocket 88.....


27 posted on 03/30/2023 7:53:11 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: basalt

What’s strange is the rest of the town was pretty much unscathed, it was just that one subdivision that pretty much got it.


28 posted on 03/30/2023 7:53:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: basalt

Every time I drive to Austin when I see the exit sign for Jarrell, it’s always the first thing that comes to my mind.


29 posted on 03/30/2023 7:54:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: central_va

isnt a TORONADO a type of horse??...i dunno....


30 posted on 03/30/2023 7:57:58 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: basalt

I was in Korea for in 1974. At morning formation, 1st Sgt read out the names of those receiving orders for their return to the states. When he came to my name, he said: “Good and bad new Lt. Good new, you got Redstone Arsenal. Bad new, a tornado blew it away last night.”


31 posted on 03/30/2023 8:12:17 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: dfwgator

I was near the 1957 Ruskin Heights, tornado in south Kansas City. My dad had his carpenter foreman that lived in the impact area and he took me at six o’clock the next morning out to see if we could be of assistance. It was an eye opening experience. House after house gone and the subdivisions just basements in blocks of debris.

The foreman’s house was only modestly damaged as he was on the fringes of the impact area and he had built it himself so it was above average in details of construction. The house on either side and the house across the street were demolished — his would be repaired in a week with mainly glass damage.

True F-5 just like the one you reference in Texas.


32 posted on 03/30/2023 8:14:56 AM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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To: j_guru

Oh has basements :)


33 posted on 03/30/2023 8:19:23 AM PDT by mylife (Big Donald J Trump socks psychology on the jaw...)
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To: basalt

green is vegetation in the air.

never a good sight


34 posted on 03/30/2023 8:20:57 AM PDT by mylife (Big Donald J Trump socks psychology on the jaw...)
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To: DugwayDuke

everybody thought the thing was finally winding down...then, 10 o’clock that night, Alabama took the worst hit of the entire day.....system was def one for the books...


35 posted on 03/30/2023 8:25:31 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: mylife

unfortunately, my house did not. Wife and I get heavy coats, and of all things, a galvanized bucket over our heads for protection, and sat down on the floor in the center of the house. I kept lifting it up so I could see, as all hell was breaking loose.


36 posted on 03/30/2023 8:27:55 AM PDT by j_guru
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To: j_guru

didnt the Dayton storm hit at night???


37 posted on 03/30/2023 8:42:50 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: central_va

Back when cars were cars


38 posted on 03/30/2023 8:57:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: basalt

Holy cow 😳😳😳


39 posted on 03/30/2023 8:59:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: basalt

We’re prepared this time. Steel storm sheltor. Standby generator.


40 posted on 03/30/2023 9:17:45 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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