OT: Tornado Alley, USA

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:10 am

FWIW - I'm hoping the best, for those folks effected by all the tornadoes occurring recently.

I'm sure the reason some forum members are absent, could be destroyed infrastructure - but I'm praying that all will come through OK, and in good health.

The forecast is for more today.

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:12 am

Good post. My prayers are joined with yours

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:18 am

rjohns94 wrote:Good post. My prayers are joined with yours

+1 Having lived in that neck of the woods myslf before, I know prayers are both needed and very much appreciated!

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sun May 25, 2008 7:47 am

We haven't had a twister very close to us yet this season, but it sure has been a stormy spring. There are a lot of folks that can use those prayers.

gunslinger598 · Post by **gunslinger598** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:09 am

At least one has been reported as close as 3 miles from me.

I suspect another was somewhat closer that was unreported.

It's been a tense season, (for me anyway)

stormspotter · Post by **stormspotter** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:56 am

I've been out on "stormwatch" 5 times so far this year. Nothing severe yet, but there is still lots of season left. When the NWS came and gave us our yearly refresher training this year, we were told that they were expecting a higher than avereage year for storms.

We have also been notified that we are on standby for severe weather this afternoon and monday.

NWS web site is www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/

Take care and you are all in our prayers.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:23 am

We've had three tornados hit our property in 25 years, but only one did much damage, and that was all to trees (it FLATTENED about 15 acres of 200+ year-old beech/sugar maple/shagbark hickory woods. We made trails through the blowdown, planted native fruit and nut trees, and have had wildlife like crazy, but it was frightening to see the flattened HOUSES all up and down the road.

A friend of mine builds houses with "Reward Wall Systems" which are basically tornado-proof except the siding will all blow off. You have to really work to make a tornado-proof roof, but even that can be done for extra expense. Even just having the walls tornado-proof protects occupants pretty well, but subsequent rain would ruin your interior if you had much roof loss.

We don't have a basement, even, so we hide in the pantry when the tornados are threatening.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:36 am

AJMD429 wrote:

We don't have a basement, even, so we hide in the pantry when the tornados are threatening.

We had some close calls when I was a kid. I won't live around here in a house without a basement.

Hillbilly · Post by **Hillbilly** » Sun May 25, 2008 11:48 am

so far we have not had a twister in Guthrie.

early friday Am we had some hellacious straight line wind near the house for a few minutes,

Enough to split a tree near the house....good news is it missed the house.

Bad news... it landed on a nearly new Craftsman lawn tractor that was out overnight.
Scooted my 31 foot travel trailer off the jacks... no damage though

Jeff

Rexster · Post by **Rexster** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:53 pm

Prayers up for everyone in the area!

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sun May 25, 2008 2:29 pm

A friend of mine sent me this. he lives in Olathe, KS

http://video.ap.org/v/Legacy.aspx?partn ... s&&f=mokas

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Sun May 25, 2008 2:43 pm

Rusty, that is some bad looking hail.I have been thinking about some of the folks out that way this weekend and prayed for them. Has any one heard from jengle in western Kansas? I know we got a lot out that way and Oklahoma too.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Sun May 25, 2008 3:43 pm

The hail was wild, but how about that monster twister?

stormspotter · Post by **stormspotter** » Sun May 25, 2008 4:57 pm

From the size of that tornado and the updraft it would have, that hail had to be tennis ball or larger in size.

Wouldn't have wanted to be the ones in the golf cart

, they should have been heading toward where the video was being taken. I don't think the umbrellas would give them much protection.

scr83jp · Post by **scr83jp** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:34 pm

Pete44ru wrote:FWIW - I'm hoping the best, for those folks effected by all the tornadoes occurring recently.

I'm sure the reason some forum members are absent, could be destroyed infrastructure - but I'm praying that all will come through OK, and in good health.

The forecast is for more today.

There was a tornado near Moreno Valley,CA blew 32,000 # boxcars over & off of the tracks plus overturned a semi truck & trailer driving up the I 215.CA gets twisters every once in a while.

Thunder50 · Post by **Thunder50** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:47 pm

Stepmom lives in Riverside, near the naional cemetary and said a twister hit near the air museum.

That big one that hit in Windsor CO .,ended up traveling North and missed my Sisters house by about 300 yards. Took out some trees, but her neighbors house and horse sheds were not so lucky. She was in the house and said she heard a strange sound (freight train like) and the winds picked up real hard. She listens to Public Service radio only and said there wasn't a thing, but the way her dogs yap sometimes, she wouldn't hear it anyhow

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sun May 25, 2008 11:41 pm

rjohns94 wrote:Good post. My prayers are joined with yours

add mine.

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sun May 25, 2008 11:49 pm

Prayers sent. I think I will keep my wife from reading this one she is already scared of tornados. We are moving out there in a month and a half dont need to get her more freaked out.

Mutt · Post by **Mutt** » Mon May 26, 2008 2:08 am

Hope those folks on the cart made it. Mighty large hail , Prayers sent.

Mutt & Wife

Hillbilly · Post by **Hillbilly** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:26 am

seems that the biggest belt of tornado in Indiana may be up in the SouthBend Elkhart area. At least it always seemed like tornados were consistent up that way.

Monticello, Indiana probably had the worst twister I recall downstate... and that was back in the 70's. I am sure there have been others.

Your wife should know that just about anyplace in the US can have a tornado. Northern Indiana, parts of Illinois and of course the plains states tend to have the most.

Flint Michigan had a bad one in 1953... Midland and Grand Blanc tend to have a couple a year in the area.

I lived through a couple of good ones when I lived in Tennessee too.

Ask about the Palm Sunday Storms in 64... a whole string of tornados across southern MI and Northern Ohio and Indiana. That storm took out a big chunk of Coldwater MI and elimintated a little crossroads town in Indiana (just south of S Bend and East of Wakarusa).

The storms are predictable and media gives good alert these days.
I like tormados much better that earthquakes, wildfire and mudslides or volcanos

Jeff

brucew44guns · Post by **brucew44guns** » Mon May 26, 2008 10:09 am

We have had many scares of tornado potentials in Kansas of late, I think a few have touched down and tore up up some stuff, nothing utterly serious. But starting this weekend we have had (in our area at least) some wonderful rain. The wheat crops are in dire need of moisture to finish filling up the grain heads. Nice to get a touch of Oregon type rain here on the plains for a change.

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