[Tornado Warning} OKC just hit again!!

[Datt]

My grandma lived in SW OKC when the F5 hit a few years ago. I remember going up there to see her the weekend after it happened. I came straight up 35 and saw the path it took through Moore. We ended up going down to her hometown of Blanchard to check on other family members. You could look down a field and see a path of dirt surrounded by grass. The tornado was so strong it plucked grass right out of the ground. It was one of the most amazing yet devistating sights I had ever seen.

I hope everyone that is up there is safe.

 

[Taloras]

I just noticed this thread while looking under Oklahoma in the search function. The tornado went right over my house as a funnel cloud (im in NW OKC)

 

[Tiefling]

The part of North Carolina where I live is hot, humid, swampy, buggy, hurricane-ridden, and has the most god-awful ugly forests on Earth, but one thing it has going for it is that there aren't many tornados.

I've only ever known england to be hit by one "tornado" it wasn't a real one though. It can't be good either way.

I was wondering the other day, why is it that I almost never hear about a tornado outside of the U.S.? Are they there but poorly reported? Or is there something unique about central U.S. geography that makes them occur here much more often?

 

[Taloras]

The central US is perfect for tornadoes. I couldnt have designed it better myself. Mountains to the east, mountains to the west, cold air coming from the north, warm are from the south, it mixes, and creates tornadoes. Hence the name Tornado Alley.

Tornadoes do happen elsewhere, just not with anywhere near this frequency. The week the tornadoes hit OKC this year, there were 298 tornadoes reported in a 7 day period. The previous record? 159 in one week in 1999. Almost doubled. Out of all the tornadoes to hit Oklahoma this year....only one death. And that was a week after the bad week.

 

[Knightfall]

I was wondering the other day, why is it that I almost never hear about a tornado outside of the U.S.? Are they there but poorly reported? Or is there something unique about central U.S. geography that makes them occur here much more often?

No, there not poorly reported, they just don't happen very often. Like in Alberta, we get some funnel clouds but they don't often turn into true tornados.

Only twice has their been a major tornado touch down in Alberta (that I've heard of). One was in the late eighties and tore through, what was then, a remote section of Edmonton. If another big one roared through there now it would destroy 10 folds the amount of businesses, homes and such.

The second big one was a few years ago when a tornado ripped through a RV park right next to Pine Lake. The devastation was insane and my cousin witnessed the aftermath first hand as he volunteered to help with the cleanup. He described the carnage to relatives by e-mail -- very sickening and horrifying for him.

And that's all I've got to say about that.

KF72

 

[Doc_Souark]

Arkansas has it's share but OK is a magnet, and a friend is moveing to Stillwater in July as if my ulcer needs something else.

 

[Stormprince]

I went to school at OU in Norman, and I was there when the big 'un hit a few years back... wild and wacky stuff!

Now, I live in the land o'winter, where the snow piles up and my blood turns to ice, and I find myself kinda missing those ol'Twisters...

Sick, ain't it

Christopher