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MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK UNDERWAY IN SOUTH
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/ | 4/27/2011 | NWS

Posted on 04/27/2011 9:20:41 AM PDT by dirtboy

PDS Tornado watch just issued for Northern Mississippi:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0232.html


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Mississippi; US: Tennessee; US: Virginia; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: alabama; georgia; noaa; roanoke; storm; tornado; virginia; weather
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To: caww

That is among the more chilling videos I have ever watched.
Thank you for posting it.


481 posted on 04/28/2011 11:53:17 AM PDT by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: MarMema

Yes it is chilling...the other link i posted of a young man chasing the tornado was also...the kid took on more than he bargained for....ended up one scared puppy but he did get some up close shots of the tornado...and sounds of.


482 posted on 04/28/2011 12:35:09 PM PDT by caww
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To: tcrlaf

Oh my....there but for the Grace of God.

I wonder if this is an indication of how bad the hurricane season will be?


483 posted on 04/28/2011 12:39:54 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: caww
With these violent and powerful tornado’s sucking up houses etc. Is it possible the suck the air out of peoples lungs. With all the dbrie that it was ripping how is anyone to konow there aren’t people parts or people spinning in that?

Strong tornadoes are perfectly capable of throwing people through the air for significant distances.

I ask this because of people who returned to see if family hungered down were safe...only to find the home and the people completely gone...so if these things suck up houses then can a person survive if they get lifted up into these tornado’s???????? or does the verocity of the spin just destroy them????

People who are taken airborn in a tornado are almost always killed. Either they are struck by debris that kills them (even small debris at 250 mph can be deadly), or they are killed by the landing. There have been notable exceptions, but they are just that - exceptions.

484 posted on 04/28/2011 3:54:09 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

Check in when you get a chance bro... I know all y’all got a lot going on. Prayers for the south.


485 posted on 04/28/2011 7:17:32 PM PDT by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: xjcsa

Thank you xjcsa...I wondered if possible for a person to be swept up and swirled about in a Tornado...and live thru that. Apparently generally they cannot.

So many houses checked for those who hunkered down in them are gone, along with the people who were in them, so I wondered if a house was gone would it have been possible they lived just thrown miles away.

These tornados were especially violent so I doubt any could have lived if swept up.


486 posted on 04/28/2011 8:45:17 PM PDT by caww
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To: tcrlaf

Deaths from tornados now over 300...expect more.


487 posted on 04/28/2011 8:47:34 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
So many houses checked for those who hunkered down in them are gone, along with the people who were in them, so I wondered if a house was gone would it have been possible they lived just thrown miles away.

Yes, it's possible, but they would not survive that. In the Parkersburg, Iowa EF5 tornado in 2008, things like engine blocks from cars and (in one case) a *large* (highway-sized) snowplow attachment were found several miles from town. No people were thrown any serious distance in that one, but lots of debris was.

488 posted on 04/28/2011 9:51:09 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: xjcsa

It would seem that just the speed of these spinning would rip and tear at a body, if they were swept up into it. These things were peeling hoods and tops of cars off like a can of sardines...the body then would not be able to survive that force.

I listened to a professsional storm chaser , who actually has a vehicle designed to go into a tornado. When he explained the shaking of the vehicle and the force against it that pretty much answered my question too. He said he’s done this about 6 or 7 times now and still is afraid when the tornados start traveling over his vehicle.


489 posted on 04/28/2011 10:11:30 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
It would seem that just the speed of these spinning would rip and tear at a body, if they were swept up into it. These things were peeling hoods and tops of cars off like a can of sardines...the body then would not be able to survive that force.

The human body can actually survive EF-5 winds just fine; it's not that different from what skydivers experience at terminal velocity. It's the debris - even granular debris like small chunks of roofing shingles - that kills. Wind at 200 mph won't kill you, but nails and shingles and bricks at that speed will.

490 posted on 04/28/2011 10:18:16 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: xjcsa

Then they likely get battered to death from the sounds of it. Hopefully one big chunk broadsides them and they are finished. May God have Mercy on those who do get swept up.


491 posted on 04/28/2011 10:22:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

The Smithville, Mississippi tornado has been rated an EF5 by the National Weather Service. That’s the most powerful tornado rating (based on a damage survey) with estimated winds of 205 mph. It was only on the ground for less than three miles, but killed 14 people, injured 40 more, and wiped Smithville off the map. That is not, apparently, the same tornado that hit Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, but *may* have been from the same cell that eventually clipped Huntsville and hit Ringold, GA.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=meg&storyid=67427&source=0

}:-)4


492 posted on 04/29/2011 8:38:21 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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