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So you export bagels (a bun with a pointless hole in it), iphones (say no more), and an obnoxious lil piglet :) oh and and MD2020 (we call it mad dog) :)

Wow. Watchin the Oklahoma reports coming in. 3km wide!!
Are tornados getting worse/more frequent with global warming?
 
funkylogik said:
So you export bagels (a bun with a pointless hole in it), iphones (say no more), and an obnoxious lil piglet :) oh and and MD2020 (we call it mad dog) :)

Wow. Watchin the Oklahoma reports coming in. 3km wide!!
Are tornados getting worse/more frequent with global warming?
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From what they claim, the frequency hasn't increased so much, but the big ones are starting to hit more populated areas as once rural places develop more and become more populated.
 
Yeah i suppose thats inebitable (sorry if that isnt a word lol) mate.
Are these areas doing anything to protect buildings etc? I guess its down to money but surely the prairy areas should be as "tornado resistant" as the west is "earthquake resistant"?
 
It kind of makes me wonder why they don't have "tornado days" like snow days. I mean the SPC had these areas in a moderate risk for a couple days out.

I ended up about 45miles from Denver Saturday when I got off work, earlier in the afternoon, the whole NE part of colorado was issued a tornado watch, into parts of Kansas and other areas. The plan was to chase these storms up north, I was hedging on Sedgwick county, about 2.5 hours away from where I was. I was going to dink around up NE for a bit, go home, get some sleep and head toward Wichita Kansas about 6am.

Storms weakened here in Colorado, so we turned around and headed home Saturday. Then we all had a rough night and ended up over sleeping so decided since it was a huge chaser convention, the distance and time to get there, and leaving late anyway, we pretty much called it off.

I think my biggest concern about going for a setup like this was, was all the chasers on it. One map I seen had probably 100 dots (indicating chasers locations) and the places where littered!
 
funkylogik said:
Yeah i suppose thats inebitable (sorry if that isnt a word lol) mate.
Are these areas doing anything to protect buildings etc? I guess its down to money but surely the prairy areas should be as "tornado resistant" as the west is "earthquake resistant"?
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They have tornado and hurricane resistant homes and buildings. You are right. The price is a big factor also the look is rather ugly. The main issue is the heartland is mostly flat.. Like.. Flat flat.. So if something is above ground then its bound to get hit and pulled. There's no way around that really.
 
funkylogik said:
Yeah i suppose thats inebitable (sorry if that isnt a word lol) mate.
Are these areas doing anything to protect buildings etc? I guess its down to money but surely the prairy areas should be as "tornado resistant" as the west is "earthquake resistant"?
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The tornado that rolled through Moore was so strong, that a direct hit would demolish just about any structure no matter what it was made of. The overall feeling is that if you weren't underground in a shelter, your chance of surviving was very small. Winds of 200mph + is simply too much to overcome :(
 
ajdroidx said:
It kind of makes me wonder why they don't have "tornado days" like snow days. I mean the SPC had these areas in a moderate risk for a couple days out.
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I agree. They were predicting a bad outbreak of tornadoes, so it would only make logical sense.
 
funkylogik said:
Did any chasers get caught mate?
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Not that I am aware of.

I was late to the scene on twitter, but I was able to see it unfold. It happened pretty quickly. The radar image of the Moore tornado had a very well defined hook echo, a few posters said they had never seen anything like it before.

I cannot find the tweet in my twitter feed though, let me see if I can bring it up another way....

I managed to find this:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co.../major_devastating_tornado_outb.shtml?refid=0


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I follow a number of chasers on twitter, I find it a great resource for news, and really quick updates. I have found by using your state abbreviation followed by WX you can get weather info for your state, so for Kansas, do a hashtag search for #KSWX (lowercase works too) and Colorado, #COWX (and possibly see some of my spam-ish tweets :o
 
The destructive power of nature... I understand the awe and beaty but people should be safe in their homes. Children especially in their school. This is horrible.

Thought and prayers for the ones hit, and for all rescueworkers searching the debris for life.
 
Yeah, I was looking to see how close it was getting to where my folks live (SW Indiana), but they seem to be safe. Also trying to see how close the storms were to Lawrence, KS where I used to live and a bunch of friends still live there. They're usually pretty safe from tornadoes since it's a hilly town (for the Midwest) but can still happen.
 
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