@Tornado1994 Actually, the largest percentage of tornadoes that cause
fatalities, are not the ones that occurr in the traditional "Tornado
Alley", meaning Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. I was at the
Southeast Severe Storms Symposium last month at Mississippi State
University in Starkville. Northeast Mississippi has the largest number to
near Memphis. There is a higher density of trailor parks and tornadoes that
occur in the middle of the night when people are sleeping.
@Tornado1994 That tornado in Enterprise, Alabama was actually rated an EF4.
The 8 students in that high school that were killed were doing the standard
procedure -getting in the hallway - and they still were killed. Also in the
south - as opposed to the plains - the topography is hilly and there are
many trees, making it harder to spot them and they are usually
rain-wrapped, as well, making them at least partially invisible.
When that happened, I was huddled with a bunch of my friends in the
basement of the girl's dorm at SNU. The lights were all out and we had a
battery-powered radio. We could hear the announcer talking about the
tornado he was watching as though he were giving a play-by-play on a
football game. When he said that it was at Ann Arbor and 50th Street, my
friends were like, "Ok, it would be a good idea to pray. NOW!!!"
@ILovestorms I see, ther Ozarks or deep south. Like Fort Smith,AK(in '96 an
F4 killed several people and Alabama( 2007's Enterprise EF 3 twister that
killed 8 people and leveled a high school.)
These were the same people at I think in Moore the previous day and they
nearly got killed by that tornado. It just feet away and that storm chaser
ran and nearly dropped the camera.
As we were praying, we heard the announcer say, "It's lifting! It's
lifting!" That tornado jumped right over the building we were in and
touched down about a block away!
@Tornado1994 not to be nit-picky, but that one was an F3 with sporadic F4
damage. But you do have a point, it seems like that area of Moore gets hit
over and over.
Night time Tornado Manchester Oklahoma April 14th, 2012
This is the storm started near Woodward Oklahoma, wen't through Cherokee I saw this after dark went just north of Manchester Oklahoma a Nightime tornado.
Photos and more info: //www.furiousearth.com May 9th, 2003 One of my most frightening encounters in all my years of tornado chasing. A night time tornado ...
Don't do what these boneheads did. Their desire to make one of their videos
go viral clearly exceeds their desire to keep breathing! Get the college
boys off the streets!
+CaptKundalini I disagree with your assessment. They did get a bit close, but that's part of how chasing works. Tornadoes change direction without warning and move so fast that even seasoned chasers can get caught out. In this case, the chase was a very dangerous night one, where everyone had to remain focused and keep close track of the incoming data, since actual visual wasn't possible most of the time. These guys worked together, and stayed calm, even with flying debris, (which would have scared the pants offa me!) and they found a route out and sought brief shelter against sturdy buildings. There was no screaming, no loss of communication, no arguing or any of the things often seen in videos where adventurers fail. All in all, I'll give 'em a pass on this one for keeping their cool and being aware at all times which direction they were going vs the storm.
Night Tornado near Manchester Oklahoma
Night Tornado on 4-14-12 near Manchester OK. It was a fairly large wedge moving ne around 50 mph. One just like this 3 hours later claimed 5 lives in ...
Death Toll From Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Downgraded to 24
Death Toll From Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Downgraded to 24 SUBSCRIBE to NewsBreaker's YouTube Channel://bit.ly/YgsSEg The death toll from the ...
Lone Grove Oklahoma Tornado February 10,2009
NEW UPDATED PHOTOS . //lonegrovetornado.bravehost.com/ I video taped a night time tornado looking west at Lone Grove Oklahoma on Highway 70 and ...
i live several miles south of Lone Grove on Cheek. theres still a home
south on cheek that was hit by the tornado, the owners partly tore the home
down but you can still see the damages from the twister. i wasnt home at
the time, but thank god i wasnt. appreciate everything the national guard
did to secure the area after the tornado. bless our troops and bless the
familys that lost loved ones in the tornado.
Ok I found where the Bar K Mobile Home park was. After seeing what was left
of the mobile home park this tornado was extremely devastating leaving only
3 of the 30 mobile homes that were in the park. Not to mention some of the
homes close by were completely gone gifving it the EF4 Rating.
February 10, 2009 brought a rare Oklahoma killer tornado, deadliest of the
year thus far, with 8 fatalities. Rated EF4, it was the strongest and
deadliest tornado during February in Oklahoma in records dating back to
1880.
i was at the basketball game when we heard of the tornado coming. my friend
took me to her place and we hid in her aunt's shelter. when it was over her
mom took me home and on the way there we saw a lot of damage.
A nice time lapse of sunset that dissolves into a nightmarish situation: a
tornado, after dark, only seen when backlit by lightning. GEEZ. THAT'S
scary. My heart breaks for those, affected.