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To: janetjanet998

Half a mile wide? That’s an F5 - like Jasper.

Screen blurry for those poor people. This is bad.


105 posted on 05/10/2008 8:47:01 PM PDT by txhurl (Hillary is realizing that she's just another womyn who slept with Bill Clinton for nothing)
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To: txflake
Half a mile wide? That’s an F5 - like Jasper.

Maybe. A few years ago I stood and watched a tornado that got to 3/4 mile wide pass within about a mile and a half of me...it was later rated a borderline F3/F4 based on damage, but I don't know if it hit any structures solid enough to test an F5 rating.

135 posted on 05/10/2008 9:31:47 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: txflake
Actually according to CNN, apparently the tornado I saw got to 1.5 miles wide...either way it was one huge tornado. It looked like the tornado from the final scene in the movie Twister from where I was standing.

Here's the photo CNN has from the tornado I saw:


139 posted on 05/10/2008 9:39:29 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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