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21st May 2013, 01:21 #1
The tornados in Oklahoma
Some really horrifying news from the areas around Oklahoma City and the suburb of Moore, that have be struck by a huge tornado.
According to CNN, there are 10 confirmed fatalities so far but many are either trapped or missing.
Basically the entire or at least a large part of the suburb have been turned into rubble.
Would anyone know if these schools have tornado shelters?
http://BBC News - Deadly tornado rips through Oklahoma City suburbsAccording to the BBC;
The National Weather Service (NWS) said Monday's tornado generated winds of up to 200mph (321km/h).
"It's certainly the most powerful tornado that I've ever dealt with in my 20 years with the weather service,"
NWS meteorologist Rick Smith in Norman, Oklahoma, told the BBC.
The town of Moore was hit by a severe tornado in May 1999, which had the highest winds ever recorded on earth.
Oklahoma City tornado: Latest developments - CNN.com
Oklahoma City Tornado 2013: Twister Makes Landfall Near Capital (LIVE UPDATES, PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Oklahoma City tornado: Massive twister leaves trail of wreckage, dozens injured - chicagotribune.com...Funny how ev'rything was roses when we held on to the guns...
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21st May 2013, 01:32 #2
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Since I've been in this country, "tornado alley" was a term I got familiar with quickly by watching the yearly stories on the news.
What always struck me was how one house would be devastated and the house besides it would be intact. It was not in the tornado's path.
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21st May 2013, 01:56 #3
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Estimates of the tornado's footprint range from a mile to two miles across. Whole sections of the city are essentially gone. Hope the death toll doesn't rise too much higher, though it almost certainly will go up. They don't call that part of the country "tornado alley" for nothing.
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21st May 2013, 02:01 #4
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37 dead confirmed so far per officials. Efforts are now termed as search and recovery and not search and rescue. This is high F4 level damage and is being compared to the Moore, OK tornado of 1999 and Branson, MO of 2011 which were both F5 level destruction. This tornado has pulled sections of grass off of lawns where this tornado went through.
So sad that thin skinned namby pambies infect a place and other placate to their wishes at the expense of others who have done no wrong.
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21st May 2013, 07:42 #5
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Sad stuff
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21st May 2013, 10:50 #6
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I heard, on the radio, that very few homes or businesses have basements. They said that rock, just a few feet below the surface is so dense that it would require dynamite to blast out sections to make them. Appearently, the schools do not have shelters. I have a friend, that posts on another forum. He lieve in N.W. Okhaloma City. Haven't been able to get in contack with him. Praying that, that is not a bad sign.
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21st May 2013, 13:15 #7
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Originally Posted by R.LeeSo sad that thin skinned namby pambies infect a place and other placate to their wishes at the expense of others who have done no wrong.
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21st May 2013, 13:21 #8
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You mentioned level F4 and F5 damage in an earlier post. What do the terms actually mean?
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21st May 2013, 14:01 #9Originally Posted by D-Type
On the enhanced Fujita Scale which is used in the USA an EF4 tornado have wind strengths between
166 and 200 mph (267–322km/h / 144-173 knots / 74-89.4 m/s) an EF5 have wind strengths greater then 201 mph.
Tornado intensity and damage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enhanced Fujita scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fujita scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TORRO scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
*Edit could a mod or admin remove the e in Tornadoes please....Funny how ev'rything was roses when we held on to the guns...
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21st May 2013, 14:50 #10
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Originally Posted by D-TypeSo sad that thin skinned namby pambies infect a place and other placate to their wishes at the expense of others who have done no wrong.
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