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| 824.1 | | TUNER::BURROUGHS | | Wed Apr 27 1988 19:21 | 9 |
| Well your lucky it didn't rip you up with everything else! I
never ran into one myself but I did cleanup after one hit down in
Shrewsbury I think. It was a ways back in time. Cut a nice path
about 50-75 feet wide and maybe the length of a football field.
Banged up once house and didn't even touch the neighbors. I'm glad
I don't live in tornado country!
Al
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| 824.2 | wow | VOLGA::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Wed Apr 27 1988 19:54 | 5 |
| Maggie,
I'm really glad that you didn't get in it's path!
Bonnie
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| 824.3 | | RANCHO::HOLT | Robert A. Holt | Wed Apr 27 1988 22:01 | 4 |
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What is a "bleeding" cyclone? Is this a special subcase?
I thought these only happened in the Bay of Bengal...
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| 824.4 | Not that I doubted her... | MSD36::STHILAIRE | It's a weird life, ya know | Thu Apr 28 1988 12:18 | 7 |
| Maggie, I'm glad you entered that! My roommate (who works there,
too) came home and told us that yesterday and, well, I kind've thought
she had lost her mind or something... But, I guess it really happened,
huh :-)?
Lorna
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| 824.5 | Tornadoes aren't *that* bad! | SHALE::HUXTABLE | Listen to My Heartbeat | Thu Apr 28 1988 12:35 | 25 |
| re .1
Since I *do* live in tornado alley, I want to point out that
you usually get some warning. The weather frequently looks
like tornado and thunderstorm weather for some time before.
If it really looks gruesome, someone, even at work, will have
a radio on. When a tornado is sighted, they *always* keep
you up on its progress on the radio--and it can wander all
over the countryside without ever touching down. If it's
nearby (a mile or two away), or if you hear the sirens, you
head for the basement. Weather this extreme happens in
eastern Kansas maybe once every year or two--it really is not
all that common. A good hair-raising thunderstorm, on the
other hand... :)
Of course, if you live in the *heart* of tornado alley
(Oklahoma) the soil contains too much clay for most houses to
have basements...and if you live farther north and east
(like Ohio) the weather patterns are such that tornados seem
more likely to come through in the middle of the night,
rather than when people are awake. I'm glad I'm in Kansas!
I hope no one was hurt by your weather!
-- Linda
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| 824.6 | Occurred over Beth's head | VIKING::MACK | | Thu Apr 28 1988 14:59 | 10 |
| BTW, this is Scott using Anne's account.
Yesterday was one of the first really fine days we had
to enjoy here in the land of taxes. Very little wind,
warm temperatures, and plenty of sunshine. The previous
week's weather was terrible, with very high winds. I
think the incident yesterday was particularly odd due
to the nice weather/slight breeze we had.
Scott (AMUN::CRITZ)
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| 824.7 | | CSC32::VICKREY | IF(i_think) THEN(i_am) ELSE(stop) | Thu Apr 28 1988 18:19 | 18 |
| "Classic" tornado conditions are not required for tornadoes. Eight
years ago, in conditions which the National Weather Service later
stated were impossible for tornadoes to occur, my sister's high school
had the gym roof peeled off and one student injured (the "impossible"
tornado picked him up and landed him with a busted leg). It just so
happened that a vacationing employee of the NWS was a witness, so it's
pretty much accepted that a tornado did occur that day.
And just to complete your paranoia, 11 years ago I was in the heart of
Tornado Alley (Warrensburg, MO) on a day when 2 separate systems came
through. The first did a lot of damage to the town of Pleasant Valley,
where the locals' first clue that there was a tornado warning was the
local #1 radio station going off the air without once broadcasting
that there was a tornado watch or warning in effect.
Should this be in WEATHERNOTES?
Susan
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