Hope all you guys in Texas are ok after the twisters came through. Those things are scary. I am fortunate. Don't have too many in my area-thank God. Hope all are safe.
Dave in NC
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Not to minimize it but even tho they have 200 mph winds, the fortunate thing about twisters is the small footprint. Maybe 200-300 yards wide andOriginally posted by meika123
a mile long perhaps skipping. So the total area affected is small and the number of people involved is usually quite low - even in suburbian areas it might be 100-200 people.
Compare to a CAT5 hurricane which can have sustained circular winds of 150+MPH and
the center wipes a swath 50 miles wide and rages for 50 miles inland before slowing to a mere 100 mph. In a urban area this can de-home 200,000 people.
Loring in Katy, TX USA
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April 4, 1964 Wichita Falls was hit by a Cat 5 that had a funnel over 1/2 mile wide and a wind damage path of nearly 1 1/2 miles. In the process of cutting a path over 10 miles long it only lifted once, over the high school I was in. It finally lifted and broke up after hitting Shepppard AFB where it still packed enough punch to tear a couple of fighters from their tie downs and partially dismember a B-52.Originally posted by LCHIEN
BTW, the idea that water will break up a tornado is false. This one sucked a load from the irrigation canal and started slinging mud.Don, aka Pappy,
Wise men talk because they have something to say,
Fools because they have to say something.
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They keep scaring us on the discovery channel. Say New York is gonna be hit by a major hurricane within next 2-3 years and it's gonna make Katrina look like child's play...
They also had this one about a supertornado, and according to them, conditions to form one are highly probable in LA vicinity. A supertornado is this thing a mile wide with winds in excess of 350mph, which rivals the nuclear blast shockwave. Results of it hitting a city are going to be similar to a nuclear bombing. And the question is not 'if' but 'when' will it happen.
After watching all these, my wife started working on our disaster kit, and told me to work out an evacuation plan in case I am at work when said major hurricane hits NY.
The idea is that hurricane/tornado activity is periodic, and we are just entering a high activity period.Comment
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