Topic: USA Tornados, are you all still there?

[Hush]

Been watching some pretty horrible footage of twisters in the US, hope you are all OK my American cousins.

[70CB750]

It was pretty bad, from what I understand, but it always looks much worse on TV.

My family in Prague is often under impression the hell open over here.

[Radam]

14 people have died here in my state. I never felt that my life was in danger, but I don't want to see any rain for a while. We still have run off water all over the roads. If it doesn't rain tomorrow I'm going for a ride!

[faux fiddy]

Tornado Alley is moving further east...

This from the AQUA earth-monitoring satellite. These tornadoes were so large they left visible brown gashes on the Alabama countryside. To help you find the gashes, storm chaser Aaron Kennedy put yellow lines parallel to the tornado’s tracks. I have added the arrows.  The city of Tuscaloosa is between the “a” and my first arrow. The path across Birmingham was largely covered by clouds when the satellite passed over.



http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/29/aqua-satellite-images-tornado-damage-path/

[Anti-Johnny]

This has been going on in Texas


Now the tornadoes to the east. Great spring so far. Our weather system is jacked up.

The tornado in Tuscaloosa tore through the mall across the street from a friends house.

[Radam]

It sucks. We got crazy flooding here in AR and you guys can't get a drop in TX. I wish we could hand off the rain like we did Godzilla.

[MCRider]

Been watching some pretty horrible footage of twisters in the US, hope you are all OK my American cousins.

In case you didn't know dept:
As bad as a tornado can be, they are relatively small, isolated geographic events. Here in Indiana we are at or above a record for the number of touchdowns this year. Its purely a matter of chance as to whether they hit a developed area or go harmlessly thru a corn field. I think so far this year our fatalities are in single digits. Whereas the infamous Palm Sunday episode in 1965 killed 137 in Indiana, a lot considering it was mostly in a rural area. 700 total in the outbreak, many in neighboring Illinois.

Our thoughts go out to the victims and families in this years outbreaks. Tornados hit so fast, if you're in the path there is little to do.

[Hush]

Those tracks are pretty amazing Tree fiddy, for something to be able to be tracked from space they were pretty big.
Hey AJ is that wild fire burning in Texas, we don't hear about that over here.
We just had our entire winter's rain drop on us in one week, floods/slips this area is a mess and we are only just in autumn!
I'm not a huge believer in "Global Warming" or the renamed "Climate Change" but I do believe that the seasons have moved, our winter is now later in the year going from May to August and our summer doesn't seem to start until late November but goes through to March, when I was a kid December was our hottest month now it's February!

[flybox1]

pics of the tornado cuts from space are pretty incredible.  hold on to your butts until its all over.

we've got 200% of our normal snopack in the Cascade Mtns, and its been 15F below the normal averages for this time of year.
if we get a few days of a quick temp swing that gets us back in the 'normal' range...all in those with riverfronts, or in the floodplains are fkt!  it could be epic high marks for snohomish, skykomish and snoqualmie rivers.

[faux fiddy]

This has been going on in Texas


Now the tornadoes to the east. Great spring so far. Our weather system is jacked up.

The tornado in Tuscaloosa tore through the mall across the street from a friends house.

That gives whole new meaning to Marfa lights!

I couldn't find today's pictures of the 300 mile long smoke plume from there , but it goes from near the observatory to Wichita Falls.

Here's  one from ten days ago when the wind turned to the north.



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[dave500]

its all scary stuff,hope you all are ok,mother nature can be a real beetch at times,we had fires at our place a few years ago now,we dont have tornados really,we just made it through by wetting the house,a fire truck happened to be close by aswell,my neighbour wasnt home so i rolled his old gsx750 to saftey,we were lucky it didnt get into the heads of the trees,it was windy and hot,it burned for three days,man i dont want to go through that again,nothing compared to what you guys are copping though.

[Hush]

  snohomish, skykomish and snoqualmie rivers.
Man how do you remember names like that?
OK my local 3 rivers are the Tutaikuri (means dog #$%*) Ngaroro and the Tukituki, guess Maori names are as hard as Indian to pronounce.

[BeSeeingYou]

  snohomish, skykomish and snoqualmie rivers.
Man how do you remember names like that?
OK my local 3 rivers are the Tutaikuri (means dog #$%*) Ngaroro and the Tukituki, guess Maori names are as hard as Indian to pronounce.

snot really a problem.