BTW, why can I find no Tornado Frequency/Severity data prior to 1950?
Posted on 12/19/2021 9:49:07 AM PST by Scarlett156
Two babies survived a tornado in Kentucky last weekend that ripped the bathtub they were sheltering in out of the ground and tossed it with them inside, their grandmother said.
Clara Lutz told WFIE-TV that she put 15-month-old Kaden and 3-month-old Dallas in the bathtub last Friday with a blanket, a pillow and a Bible. Then the house in Hopkins County started shaking.
“Next thing I knew, the tub had lifted and it was out of my hands,” Lutz said. "I couldn’t hold on. I just – oh my God.”
Lutz, who had been hit in the back of the head by the water tank from the tub, said she began looking everywhere among the wreckage for the children. Her house was stripped to the foundation.
“All I could say was, ‘Lord please bring my babies back safely. Please, I beg thee,’” she said.
The bathtub was found in her yard, upside down, with the babies underneath. Authorities from the sheriff's office drove to the end of her driveway and reunited her with the two children, she said.
Dallas had a big bump on the back of his head and had to go to Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville because his brain was bleeding, but the bleeding stopped before Lutz got to the hospital, she said.
Lutz said the parents of the children live on the north end of the county and their home was nearly untouched by the tornado.
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In another article, all seven members of a KY family were killed; they just found one of the kids' bodies yesterday.
Lecture us about climate change some more, Democrat socialists.
Thank you God for saving these babies. It is absolutely despicable that the left used this tragedy to rant about climate change. We live on a dynamic planet. Get over it!!
BTW, why can I find no Tornado Frequency/Severity data prior to 1950?
It's a little fact that irritates the globull people when I ask then what happened before then.
Also, if you track all tornadoes on a graph you will see a bump happening around 1988.
Why? Introduction of doppler radar enabled us to capture the smaller spin up tornadoes.
I heard this story days ago. The little girl said she was flying in the tornado then it dropped her in a mud puddle or something like that.
BTW, why can I find no Tornado Frequency/Severity data prior to 1950?
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because we didn’t start really keeping track of all them until then....
mostly using newspaper stories ..even the 1950s data is incomplete
It wasn’t until the NWS was more modern did we have to tech to get track or a reason to even care about documenting all of them
Different kids. The babies in the bathtub were too young to be telling any stories. In a miracle they simply flew off in the tub which only inverted upon landing, thereby sheltering them.
God is Good. All the time
I always ask them how they know the temperature over the last 1000 years to an accuracy of tenths of a degree, by tree rings.
Most are too stupid to understand the question.
I remember my parents putting us kids in the bathtub, with a mattress on top during tornadoes in OK. Luckily, our house never got a direct hit.
I still remember the Dec 5, 1975 tornado that ripped through Tulsa OK. Luckily no one was killed. It was during THE COMING ICE AGE scare.
I was at work, the wife had the kids and friends all pile into the bathtub, then pulled a mattress over them all.
Water tank?
The tornado outbreak series of May 1896 killed almost 500 people, when the population was MUCH lower. One storm that hit St. Louis + East St. Louis killed 255 people on its own.
So while this is bad, the any commentary that this is “unprecedented” is “uninformed.”
Got me. Im guessing they either had one of those miniature point of use heaters or she got hit by the tankless unit and didnt understand how those work.
“...why can I find no Tornado Frequency/Severity data prior to 1950?”
Thanks a lot. Yet another bunnyhole. /s
Seriously, though, you piqued my interest. Valid question, “Why?”
Any logical mind cannot resist the urge.
The best that I can ascertain is that prior to 1950, Oklahoma City was preeminently the tornado capital of the world and record keeping was isolated to OKC and parts of North Texas, outlined here:
https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata
It simply wasn’t considered an NWS matter due to the lack of knowledge about tornadic systems.
The best NWS outlines is the following:
“The National Weather Service has no official tornado record prior to 1950, and other sources for early tornadoes do not list every tornado that has occurred. There are hundreds of small tornadoes that are not listed here simply because they have yet to be rediscovered, and that’s if they were ever even reported in the first place.”
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornado_climatology
I find no NWS directives for the decision to begin record keeping in 1950, nor any formal citation on their website. However, that doesn’t mean that the NWS head at the time didn’t authorize such records (likely, in fact).
The Storm Events Database web application, for example, wasn’t begun until 1999, so “1950” had little to do with computerization and, of course, nothing to do with Doppler Radar (1953 first meteorological use, 1973 first application for tornadic storm, later network of WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radar- ‘1988 Doppler’).
IMHO, it was just an arbitrary starting point for a much later decision for a records database which, at the time, was likely in COBOL on tape, and the researchers/meteorologists at the time had to retroactively search back to 1950.
The tornado outbreak series of May 1896 killed almost 500 people, when the population was MUCH lower. One storm that hit St. Louis + East St. Louis killed 255 people on its own.
Yes, but you can’t compare because todays warning system is obviously much better and also better construction of buildings
We may have reached the “average” tornado fatality minimum because warning times can’t get much better and like you pointed out population is increasing
also Tornado alley seems to have shifted east in recent decades (not from climate change likely just natural cycles) over higher population centers then the central plains
in 2011 all of this lined up perfectly in AL with that huge outbreak and then again in Joplin MO
The Plainfield IL F5 tornado in 1990 killed 28 people but much of the area it hit was just farm fields . Today those same farm fields are miles and miles of homes due to growth in the southwest burbs of Chicago the past 30 years
God is Good.
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And He gave us each a guardian angel. These 2 precious babies were protected by their guardian angels. God is good, indeed.
Sad but there were other babies and kids that were killed. I’m glad those kids were safe after their amazing adventure.
“God is Good. All the time”
True, but there are HUGE reasons that we DO NOT base that statement on circumstances.
He is GOOD, whether we live or die, escape or suffer, have health or disease, have plenty or nothing.
God’s goodness stands entirely independent of our conditions.
YES ,we should still be thankful when good things happen, but we are also told “in EVERYTHING give thanks,” which puts a real challenge to us if we have been conditioned to see God’s goodness in light of good things happening in our lives.
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