Tornando?!

[BlkKnit]

Not sure about it, but something definitely tore up the neighborhood this afternoon. Minnie was out with her mom, and I had the kids at home. Thunderboomers started in, then wind hit the from porch blowing stuff everywhere. Knocked over all of minnies plants and a welcome sign...left the light plastic doghouse in place in the yard.

Talked to minnie on the phone after it blew over, and she said "I'm right up the street, but we cant get through.......theres a hangar in the road!" (We live on the airport here, and a small quansit hut type aircraft hangar was demolished and left across the road about 100 yards from the house). Neighbor lady had a large tree fall (cutting OUR power for a while) and another branch messed up her newly replaced roof. Another neighbor lady (who works where i do) said she had some stuff tore up in her yard, but 20 feet away a lawnchair was not even knocked over.

When it hit, I sent the kids into the hallway and when I got there they wanted to know if it was a tornado...I said "No, of course not!" LOL...then I took them out to see the damage later. Wander if they figured out that daddy was fibbin?

Opposide of the airfield appears to have no damage at all and I should add, no one is known to be hurt at this time.

Oh yeah, and there is a cessna 150 sitting on its topside.

[majic]

Straight line winds can be pretty damaging and random too.

[Rafe35]

Originally posted by BlkKnit
Not sure about it, but something definitely tore up the neighborhood this afternoon. Minnie was out with her mom, and I had the kids at home. Thunderboomers started in, then wind hit the from porch blowing stuff everywhere. Knocked over all of minnies plants and a welcome sign...left the light plastic doghouse in place in the yard.

Talked to minnie on the phone after it blew over, and she said "I'm right up the street, but we cant get through.......theres a hangar in the road!" (We live on the airport here, and a small quansit hut type aircraft hangar was demolished and left across the road about 100 yards from the house). Neighbor lady had a large tree fall (cutting OUR power for a while) and another branch messed up her newly replaced roof. Another neighbor lady (who works where i do) said she had some stuff tore up in her yard, but 20 feet away a lawnchair was not even knocked over.

When it hit, I sent the kids into the hallway and when I got there they wanted to know if it was a tornado...I said "No, of course not!" LOL...then I took them out to see the damage later. Wander if they figured out that daddy was fibbin?

Opposide of the airfield appears to have no damage at all and I should add, no one is known to be hurt at this time.

Oh yeah, and there is a cessna 150 sitting on its topside.

There's no bad weather around in Arkansas today, but mid-windy and hot outside....

You still in Arkansas, BlkKnit?

[rpm]

Originally posted by majic
Straight line winds can be pretty damaging and random too.

Most people mistake straight line wind damage for tornado damage. Just as damaging and deadly.

[BlkKnit]

Yeah, Rafe, I'm way over here close to Oklahoma....the rest of Arkansas barely claims us over here

majic and rpm...I thought it was straight line winds when it happened, but the randomness within even 10 feet threw me off a bit.  I have no doubt that thats what it was, as nobody reported a tornado that i have heard of.

[Jackal1]

BlkKnit, that`s not "the" airstrip near Mena is it? Yaknow the famous one.
  Man, I love that place and never pass up an opportunity to go there. I took the wife and Mom up the scenic 7 a couple of years ago, then we doubled back and spent a couple of days in Mena before coming home. Being such a short distance from us, here at lake Tawakoni , Tx., it is amazing at the difference in countryside. The people around there has to be some of the most down to earth, friendly foks anywhere also.
  We had friends that owned a small farm just east of Mena when I was a kid that we used to visit regualrly. Man I loved it.
  Dad came close to buying land there when I was a kid, but he never took the final steps and I think he regretted it.
  My other favorite place in Arkansas is the small town of Jasper.
  Back on topic, I watched the radar loop for there yesterday and saw the storm system move through your area.

[BlkKnit]

yep, Jackal, thats the one.....I know many guys who were here at the time, even the guy who owned the company that was "supposedly" maintaining those aircraft.  Our current Director of QA is the guy who was county sherriff at the time.  The whole thing about a "Mena Connection" is a load of bull, but there were some questionable activities after those planes left here I guess.

Gotta love the video of the C130 parked behind chainlink fence and being labelled as one of the illicit planes.....LOL it was here broke down for a couple of years and the only chainlink around here at the time was a stretch about 50 feet long and 3 feet high

If come through again, give me a holler.

BTW, land is still pretty cheap around here

[Maverick]

It's possible you had a microburst there related to a thunderstorm. You get an intense downdraft in a very localized area with some severe winds radiating out of it. More than enough to flip over a small Cessna especially if it isn't chained down very well.

[JB73]

yeah, i was going to say down drafts or micro bursts too.

in my town a few years back straight line winds and a few down drafts destroyed a whole warehouse. no rotation in the clouds and no tornado according to the NWS

[BlkKnit]

well, that sounds like a reasonable explanation.  was pretty localized.

[REP0MAN]

........no one is known to be hurt at this time.
Oh yeah, and there is a cessna 150 sitting on its topside.

I thought you said no one is hurt. That poor plane fell on its head. I love those old tiny planes. I got my private and instrument ratings in one in Phoenix a few years ago. Imagine a 152 in mid June desert thermal updrafts. You can definatley shake loose a filling on takeoff roll.

BlkKnit, I am in Tulsa now, I know what you mean by crazy wind. I have seen it take a house and leave the tin shed 20 feet from the back door. Amazing, yet scary.

My have to fly over there and check out that field. I try to go north if I go anywhere. I mostly stay around here and do touch and gos at Tulsa International. Makes the ATC's go nuts. One of the only Internationals that you can really get away with that anymore. I'd like to see you try at DFW or O'Haire.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by BlkKnit

If come through again, give me a holler.
 

Will do. Thanks.