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
That is among the more chilling videos I have ever watched.
Thank you for posting it.
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.
Oh my....there but for the Grace of God.
I wonder if this is an indication of how bad the hurricane season will be?
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.
Check in when you get a chance bro... I know all y’all got a lot going on. Prayers for the south.
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.
Deaths from tornados now over 300...expect more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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