ever wanna get freaked out?

[Boroda]

Originally posted by rshubert
Do they have a lot of tornados in Russia?  We don't hear much about it here if they do.

Sometimes I really like the natural conditions, and think I can forgive 8 months of winter and snow here....

We had serious tornados in Moscow and Central Russia in 1985, the city of Ivanovo really suffered, dozens of homes destroyed. In Msk it made a severe damage to some parks, in fact 10 min on foot from a place I lived at that time. Last year there was a tornado reported on TV and it was on all TV news, but it didn't do any damage...

[Mustaine]

in Wisconsin this year we have had like 3 tornados already.

in the lower midwest, the tornados easily cause millions of $ damage, and can destroy anywhere from 50 - 200 homes and businesses.

last one that was severe in WI, was in OakField. see here that is about 35 miles from my house

[Meatwad]

weather just right for storms/tornadoes today. southern IL under strom watch. I knew it was gonna happen, air has that storm feeling to it

[Mustaine]

that tornado i linked to... me and some buddies ahd CB's back then and were out looking for it LMAO.

we got within about 10 miles of where it was, and the whole sky was black as night, and we lost reception on all radios. freaked us enough to turn away LOL

i'd love to go storm chasing, if it is daytime and i can somewhat see what is going on.

at night, pitch black and you can't see what's comming it is not cool

[superpug1]

lol in texas, when the tornado sirens go off, everyone runs outside to look at it. I love texas.

[rpm]

Originally posted by Boroda
In Msk it made a severe damage to some parks, in fact 10 min on foot from a place I lived at that time.

Try 10 feet from the backdoor. Gives it a whole new perspective.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by rpm
Try 10 feet from the backdoor. Gives it a whole new perspective.

OMG! I start to understand that a tornado from "Wizard of Oz" is not a rare cataclysm but a quite common thing in the US...

[MiloMorai]

Something to read Boroda

http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornalley.html



"Tornado Alley

Tornadoes can occur everywhere in the world, from Spain to Wales and from Japan to the USA. But they mostly occur in the United States.

Tornado alley
Tornado Alley is highlighted Tornadoes have hit al fifty states of the United States, but the 30-year average number of tornadoes per year in Alaska is closer to zero than to one. In Oklahoma though the average jumps to 52. Although no state is immune for tornadoes, there is an area that suffers from more tornadoes than any other. This area is called Tornado Alley. It is stretched out from West-Texas to North-Dakota. That is 1600 kilometres from north to south and 950 kilometres from east to west. Because it is not an official area the areas that are counted for can vary. What is certain is that large pieces of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska are a part of it. These areas suffer from more tornadoes than any other state in the United States.

Ideal circumstances
The reason that this rather large area is hit more than any other areas is because in this area the circumstances are ideal. The terrain is relatively flat. Because of this the warm humid air going north from the gulf of Mexico and the cool dry air going south from Canada can easily crash into each other and create large super cells (also see sub-division development).

Texas
Texas is struck most of all in the last 50 years. From 1950 until now they suffered from almost 5500 tornadoes. That's is an average of 110 each year.

Tornado outbreak
The 3rd and 4th of April 1974 will always be remembered. In 16 hours there were measured 148 tornadoes in 13 states. The tornadoes were varying from F0 to F5 (see subdivision scale).) and some of them traveled 60 kilometers. This was the biggest breakout ever. There were 330 people killed en almost 5500 people injured. Such a strike of nature is rare, but the scientist can assure us that it will come back. We know one thing for sure: there won't be so many people killed or injured, because of the better warning system. "

http://library.thinkquest.org/C001472/neen/tornadoes/alley.content.html