Oklahoma twisters

I've made it very well known to the guy in charge of the sirens here in town that I do not want anything to do with those talking sirens. Fuck that shit, that's just too creepy.

Death toll updated to 51.

 

I just heard 55.

 

That voice came outta the air man.... you shoulda seen me runnin in to the basement. People there thought it was pretty funny. You are used to that shit. lol.

 

Our tornado sirens are air raid sirens. I don't like that, lol.

 

Aerianne has started another thread , with some cnn links . http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7651510&posted=1#post7651510

 

haa, missed me.

Even though there are historically NOT tornadoes here, recently there have been funnel clouds, a while back we had some pretty big ones. Not the kind that would kill you if they hit you, or destroy buildings, but pretty awe inspiring considering we generally don't have those at all.

Obviously could NOT be any sort of global climate/weather pattern change...... riiiiight guiz?

 

I think I'd rather have an air-raid, than a 2 fuckin' mile wide tornado.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTpceWd8UE4"]5/20/13 Moore, OK Devastating Tornado - YouTube

 

Either one would obliterate the tiny town I live in. A 2 mile wide tornado would just touch down and the town would be gone.

 

do you have a tornado cellar or whatever they're called?

 

Angela/Skylie's house, right? I remember the story.

I'll never forget the time she posted a nude pic. It was hot.

 

I assume you're talking to me even though you quoted KR.

Yes, at Angela's house. Hahaha... well, that story was..memorable to me so I'm sure I mentioned it before. She was laughing at me and so was her dad. Haha.

She posted nude pics on here? I didn't know that ....
She ever come round here anymore?

 

Sorry. I am at work posting from my phone.

No, I have not seen her in years. I wonder if she is still hot.

 

I'm ok but this was a bad one.

We had one on Monday that hit Edmond and the funnel formed right over Norman. I went to the basement in one of the buildings on campus and around 5 or 6 PM the entire sky was as black as midnight outside.

Today was even worse. This one touched down 8 miles from my apartment, all of the exits on I-35 are closed. It apparently crossed the highway at some point. They are saying it was 2 miles in diameter and had winds 250mph minimum. At those speeds, debris cuts through solid concrete like it's paper. You can see actual pockets of debris on the doppler images they have of it. Enormous, very violent tornado. From what I've heard, there is little question that this was an F5.

I don't know what the national news is reporting, but the local news has the death toll at 91 and that number will definitely be climbing throughout the night and tomorrow when it's light out again. 20 of those 91 were some of the children who were trapped in the school, they apparently drowned. 40 children, 1st through 3rd graders, are still missing from the 2nd elementary school that was destroyed.

I was on campus and no one could stop crying. This is what Moore looks like now. Complete devastation. It looks like an atomic bomb went off.

 

video of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-kdL_UOwGo

Incredibly violent storm. Anything in this thing's path was totally destroyed.

What's crazy is that the one that hit Edmond on Monday was an F4 or an F5 too and was possibly spinning even faster. They said that the one in Edmond was a multi-vortex tornado, which happens when the tornado is so large and spinning so fast that the atmosphere literally can't handle it and the tornado splits into multiple vortexes.

 

Nope. When I was about 5 years old, 3 tornadoes ripped through here. It started off as just one just across the lake from where I live now and it lost momentum as it went down in the lake bed, started picking it back up as it came up the hill and literally hopped right over this neighborhood. Our neighbor a street over has a video of it. The storm broke into three different tornadoes and one of them tore right through my grandparents' neighborhood. At that time, my family and I lived in a town 12 miles away, but my mom was here in town getting her hair cut and she got to my grandma's house just in time to hide in the hallway under a mattress. Very minor damage happened to my grandparents' home and they were away on a trip when it happened, but it spurred them to have a cellar built. Soon after that, we moved here and I remember spending a lot of time over at my grandparents' house during storm season every year. We only actually used the cellar a few times that I can remember. Unfortunately, they moved when I was a senior in high school, so we lost our only tornado shelter.

I am, however, part of a small group of certified storm chasers. We're pretty good at getting out of the way of storms, and with the normal amount of warning time, we'd have plenty of time to GTFO. The last tornado I remember was in the middle of the night in like October when I was in 8th grade. Slept right through it, had no idea anything had happened until I went to school the next day and they were all talking about the 7th grade math teacher's home being destroyed in the middle of the night.

We're right on the edge of tornado alley, though. We really don't get many and even though that storm that hit us when I was little was an F-3, no one died.

edit- Death toll in Moore as of midnight is 91. 20 of which were children.

 

I would have to say yes. I have a lot of family in Oklahoma and when I was a kid, we'd go to family reunions at Lake Texoma during the summer, usually right as tornado season was waning off. Every single year, I remember driving through at least one area that had been ripped apart by a tornado. Oklahoma City seems to be a particular magnet for the bad ones. I'm thanking my lucky stars right now that my loved ones weren't in the Moore area.

 

Oklahoma appears to hold the record for the highest tornado wind speed based on doppler radar. 302 mph.

http://wmo.asu.edu/tornado-highest-recorded-wind-speed-tornado-doppler-radar


The tornado outbreak in the region of Oklahoma City in May 1999.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=events-19990503

 

things happen in paces where they do. why is it news? humans have such an ego to think nature can't happen to them. they forget there is anything beyond each other and their toys.