OKC Tornado

[W2NAP]

Bad shit. down in moore,ok. tornado hit a school last I heard 24 kids dead.

[K7SGJ]

I just read about this, too. A very sad thing. To me, tornadoes are probably the most terrifying of all weather disturbances.

[N2CHX]

Two schools. They're still pulling bodies out of Moore.

Live video: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51943719/

My grandson lives very near there (yeah believe it or not I'm a grandma). I am told the tornadoes went around the town where they live, just missing them. No direct word from family however.

[KG4CGC]

Watched it happened on TV and there was so much rain wrapped around the debris cloud the only thing you could see was the transformers at the substation blow up. The skyview of the school aftermath was very sad.

[WØTKX]

Reports are coming in that the funnel was almost two miles wide. Wow, horrible. Much bigger and it could be a new phenomenon, a hurricane spawned over land. The bad storms used to be multiple funnels in a big storm.

[W2NAP]

i guess the total dead count is up to 57 last I heard. bad bad bad

[W7XF]

NWS has preliminarily classed it as EF-4....from what I saw on the net and on TV....EASILY EF-5

[W2NAP]

death toll is now up to 90 per a post by reed timmer on fb.

[PA5COR]

Sorry reading that, weren't they hit in 1999 too? remember Moore being hit in the past, sounds familiar...

[VK3ZL]

My thoughts go out to all affected by this tragedy..

Take care....Bob..VK3ZL.

[PA5COR]

Latest from RSOE EDiS
A giant tornado, a mile wide or more, killed at least 91 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at least two schools. The injured flooded into hospitals, and the authorities said many people remained trapped, even as rescue workers struggled to make their way through debris-clogged streets to the devastated suburb of Moore, where much of the damage occurred. Amy Elliott, the spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City medical examiner, said at least 91 people had died, including the children, and officials said that toll was likely to climb. Hospitals reported at least 145 people injured, 70 of them children.

Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore was reduced to a pile of twisted metal and toppled walls. Rescue workers were able to pull several children from the rubble, but on Monday evening crews were still struggling to cut through fallen beams and clear debris amid reports that dozens of students were trapped. At Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City, on the border with Moore, cars were thrown through the facade and the roof was torn off. Brooke Cayot, a spokeswoman for Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City, said 58 patients had come in by about 9 p.m. An additional 85 were being treated at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The tornado touched down at 2:56 p.m., 16 minutes after the first warning went out, and traveled for 20 miles, said Keli Pirtle, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service in Norman, Okla. It was on the ground for 40 minutes, she said. It struck the town of Newcastle and traveled about 10 miles to Moore, a populous suburb of Oklahoma City. Ms. Pirtle said preliminary data suggested that it was a Category 4 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which measures tornado strength on a scale of 0 to 5. A definitive assessment will not be available until Tuesday, she said.

Moore was the scene of another huge tornado, in May 1999, in which winds reached record speeds of 302 m.p.h., and experts said severe weather was common in the region this time of year. But the region has rarely had a tornado as big and as powerful as the one on Monday. Television on Monday showed destruction spread over a vast area, with blocks upon blocks of homes and businesses destroyed. Residents, some partly clothed and apparently caught by sur prise, were shown picking through rubble. Several structures were on fire, and cars had been tossed around, flipped over and stacked on top of each other. Kelcy Trowbridge, her husband and their three young children piled into their neighbor's cellar just outside of Moore and hud dled together for about five minutes, wrapped under a blanket as the tornado screamed above them, debris smashing against the cellar door. They emerged to find their home flattened and the family car resting upside down a few houses away. Ms. Trowbridge's husband rushed toward what was left of their home and began sifting through the debris, then stopped, and told her to call the police.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_update&edis_id=TO-20130521-39309-USA

[KK4AMI]

I'm watching the Today Show news on the Tornado. Teachers tried to cover their students to save them. Amazing stories of survival. I'm really wishing I had a basement now. I feel like going outside and digging a hole now.

[WX7P]

I'm watching the Today Show news on the Tornado. Teachers tried to cover their students to save them. Amazing stories of survival. I'm really wishing I had a basement now. I feel like going outside and digging a hole now.

Do you even have tornadoes in your part of the world?

[N8YX]

Do you even have tornadoes in your part of the world?

Yes, they do. Widest tornado ever recorded (2.5mi) occurred in North Carolina.

[WX7P]

Yes, they do. Widest tornado ever recorded (2.5mi) occurred in North Carolina.

Shows what I know.

We had some big winds and lightning last night. Lightning strike across the street.

Sarah was running for the basement.

[KK4AMI]

Do you even have tornadoes in your part of the world?

Not as many as Illinois (The first Tornado I had ever seen was in Cahokia, Illinois) and Ohio, but ours don't usually cut long swaths. They jump from hilltop to hilltop. I saw a pair of twin water spouts on the Chesapeake and we have had a couple hit in the county.

[N2CHX]

Shows what I know.

We had some big winds and lightning last night. Lightning strike across the street.

Sarah was running for the basement.

We even get them up here in Buffalo. One about every 2.5 years, on average.

[KG4NEL]

Yes, they do. Widest tornado ever recorded (2.5mi) occurred in North Carolina.

Coincidentally, the widest person I have ever come across also occurred in North Carolina.

[KK4AMI]

Shows what I know.

We had some big winds and lightning last night. Lightning strike across the street.

Sarah was running for the basement.


Every time we had a storm, my Mother would go into the basement to wash clothes. Needless to say every spring we usually had really clean clothes and no water.

[NQ6U]

We even get tornadoes in California, although they're nowhere near as common or as large as those that routinely hit the Midwest. One touched down in the Sacramento Valley when I was living in Chico back in the Nineties. It did some damage but no one was injured.

[N2RJ]

We've had a few tornadoes here. Last year we had a small one I believe. Well, at least we got a tornado warning. Not sure if one actually touched down or not or if it was just the hook echoes.

We did have an EF3 here in 2008 which destroyed a dairy farm.

One of my coworkers in Florida also got hail and ice dumped on his house yesterday.

[n2ize]

Do you even have tornadoes in your part of the world?

I I have said in the past the United States has by far more tornadoes than any other county in the world. We also have more of the severe EF4-EF5 types than anywhere else. Just about every state, except California, has them. Even here in the New York City Metro area and surrounding suburbs we get them. Although our tornadoes tend to be less severe, EF-1 - EF2 and less frequent than the powerful ones they get out west. Tornadoes have on occasions in the past struck areas pretty close to my home. They also climb hills and mountains. The idea that tornadoes must have vast expanses of flat open land in order to happpen is also an error.

[NQ6U]

I I have said in the past the United States has by far more tornadoes than any other county in the world. We also have more of the severe EF4-EF5 types than anywhere else. Just about every state, except California, has them.

Wanna bet? See thread above (https://forums.hamisland.net/showthread.php/25740-OKC-Tornado?p=538653&viewfull=1#post538653). They're uncommon, but we get 'em here too. The one in question ripped the roof off someone's garage.

[ka4dpo]

I was at FT Hood Texas in 1997 when the Jerrell F5 tornado hit. It was huge but fortunately there was not a lot of population in it's path. We went to Round Rock and Jarrell the next day and saw the devistation first hand. As bad as that storm was it did not come close to the amount of damage done by the one in more Oklahoma. I hope they find more survivors today and our prayers are with them.

[X-Rated]

My father in law died right there near the Joplin hospital building that was hit by the Joplin tornado.

[W2NAP]

Wanna bet? See thread above (https://forums.hamisland.net/showthread.php/25740-OKC-Tornado?p=538653&viewfull=1#post538653). They're uncommon, but we get 'em here too. The one in question ripped the roof off someone's garage.

I think only states that have not gotten a tornado is Alaska and Hawaii

[WØTKX]

NOAA just raised the classification to an F5 after checking data. Wow.