41 years ago today...beginning of an epic blow job

[N8YX]

Or was it "suck"?

Things definitely sucked for the residents of those Midwest states caught in its path:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Outbreak

I've been in and around a lot of severe weather since then - including some upper plains supercells - and the word I'll use to describe the 4/3 - 4/4 lot is "angry".

[NQ6U]

Tornadoes?? Damn, talk about a misleading title. And to think I was all prepared to be really jealous of someone...

Seriously, take a look at this weather map of the event and dig that crazy occluded front. Those things always make for some wild weather, even out here in CA.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Sfc1974040400z.png

[KK4AMI]

Tornadoes?? Damn, talk about a misleading title. And to think I was all prepared to be really jealous of someone...

Seriously, take a look at this weather map of the event and dig that crazy occluded front. Those things always make for some wild weather, even out here in CA.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Sfc1974040400z.png

From all the stuff I've heard on the news, it sounds like you could use all the weather related water you can get in California!

[suddenseer]

I live close to Xenia, Ohio. We went there to help our relatives after we found them. We received a ham radio gram telling us where they were. That might have helped me decide to go for my Novice ticket. The devastation, and destruction I saw was overwhelming. I hope that I never see any thing like that again.

I should add that an F2 hit Xenia in 1989 with no fatalities, and an F4 in 2000 with one fatality. The SkyWarn group was born here I think. People take the SkyWarn net, radar, tv, and radio, radar, and other tools very seriously. I have personally witnessed 4 funnel clouds, and one tornado. Ohiya can be a hostile place.

http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/ddn_archive/2011/04/19/xenia-tornado-of-1974/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UArq6EGEn6s


(http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/ddn_archive/2011/04/19/xenia-tornado-of-1974/)

[NQ6U]

From all the stuff I've heard on the news, it sounds like you could use all the weather related water you can get in California!

Yeah, that's for sure—my front lawn is completely dead now. Still, I'd prefer that the water not come along with 200+ MPH winds. Back in my OTR truck driving days, I passed through OK City on I-40 a day after a big tornado hit there (2003?) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2003_tornado_outbreak_sequence#Oklahoma_City_a rea_tornado_.28F4.29)and the destruction I saw was something I'll never forget.

ON EDIT: It might have been (probably was) I-44 rather than I-40. I may never forget the destruction but the same doesn't go for route numbers after twelve years.

[NA4BH]

I lived in Huntsville the night of those tornadoes. My buddies and I were on Monte Sano mountain watching them go through the city. DAMN !!!!!!!

[WØTKX]

http://farmersalmanac.com/weather/2013/07/22/july-1987-twin-cities-superstorm/

My Celica was a rudderless boat on a steep hill for about 20 seconds, till it snagged in scrub oak and sumac.

:shock:

[suddenseer]

http://farmersalmanac.com/weather/2013/07/22/july-1987-twin-cities-superstorm/

My Celica was a rudderless boat on a steep hill for about 20 seconds, till it snagged in scrub oak and sumac.

:shock:Did the thought, "I should have bought a pick up truck." go through your head?

[WØTKX]

Nope. Pickup truck was down hill of me, and upside down. :shock:

[W2NAP]

I missed it by 8 years

[kd6nig]

From all the stuff I've heard on the news, it sounds like you could use all the weather related water you can get in California!

Water yes.

Fingers of cloud coming out of the sky and erasing stuff off of parts of the map...no thankee!

[n2ize]

The United States is the most severe tornado prone country in the world, mainly since we lack any significant sort of sweeping mountain range running from East-> West. We even get tornadoes here in the northeast, albeit they tend not to be on the order of F4/F5.