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".
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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.
Last edited by NQ6U; 04-03-2015 at 12:42 PM.
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!Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
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.
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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?) 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.
Last edited by NQ6U; 04-06-2015 at 01:48 PM.
Water yes.
Fingers of cloud coming out of the sky and erasing stuff off of parts of the map...no thankee!
73 to all!
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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/
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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 !!!!!!!
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http://farmersalmanac.com/weather/20...es-superstorm/
My Celica was a rudderless boat on a steep hill for about 20 seconds, till it snagged in scrub oak and sumac.
:shock:
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Did the thought, "I should have bought a pick up truck." go through your head?
cul de n8tb
"Sadly, it always takes a few martyrs to get the ball rolling." Colonel Tim Boldman 2001
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."--William James
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." Victor J. Stenger
Nope. Pickup truck was down hill of me, and upside down. :shock:
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
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