Author Topic: Tornado (Read 331 times)

cav58d · « **on:** May 16, 2007, 03:26:11 PM »

Hey guys. Right now my area is under a Tornado Watch. First time I can remember something like this since i've been around. It's finals week right now and my University had an emergency campus wise closure @ 2 oclock. All the other schools and programs in the area are also cancelling. I doubt anything is going to happen, however, it is interesting whats going on. I figure it has to be somewhat serious if they cancel finals.

Right now the rain is coming down pretty darn strong and i'm getting a lot of thunder. Lightning has picked up in the past couple minutes, and the wind is going CRAZY! Definately going to lose some trees in the backyard today.

Anyways, just incase....What are some signs I should watch for to know if I should head to the basement (obviously beside monitoring TV/Radio)?

Thanks

Cav

whiteman · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2007, 03:32:43 PM »

horizontal rain is a start, extreme wind and noise. easiest is sudden pressure loss in a building, all the air being sucked out giving you a hard to breath feeling for a second. It gets that far it might be to late.

red26 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2007, 03:39:43 PM »

Ok now If you have any animals in the house they will kinda act diffrent if anything real bad is coming remember they can here better than you. If the clouds around you are verry low thats the wall cloud. Look for rotation in that. Most tonatic storms right before they hit will look green for some reason. And just before the tornado starts up in the area All the wind will quit blowing it's linda like a Calm before the storm thing. But the wind will quit blowing and there will be a deadly silence expt, the thunder. you should here the tornado I hate to say this but around 200 yards off it will sound like nothing you have ever herd in your life. I dont think its like a train but its FREAKING LOUD!! If its real loud you dont have much time at all. I hope this helps you out. Its best to go to your celler or basement as soon as the report comes in and ride the storm out there. ~~RED26 Let me know how things turn out~~

Shifty · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2007, 05:04:00 PM »

Good luck Cav,

If you don't have a shelter use an inner closet, or bathroom. A Tornado Watch is just that, a watch. The weather conditions are favorable for producing tornados.
If you come under a Tornado Warning,, thats the time to take immediate shelter. Good luck, keep us posted.

Odee · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2007, 05:11:02 PM »

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Originally posted by whiteman
horizontal rain is a start, extreme wind and noise. easiest is sudden pressure loss in a building, all the air being sucked out giving you a hard to breath feeling for a second. It gets that far it might be to late.

If it gets that far, then he's deaf for not hearing the freight train sound of the twister coming.

majic · « **Reply #5 on:** May 16, 2007, 05:46:21 PM »

Err, where are you anyway? (Just wondering who shuts down for a tornado watch, did you mean "warning"?)

whiteman · « **Reply #6 on:** May 16, 2007, 06:23:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Odee
If it gets that far, then he's deaf for not hearing the freight train sound of the twister coming.

the couple i've been in i never heard the freight train sound everyone speaks of until it went over. the strong winds and pressure loss was what tiped us off

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 16, 2007, 07:22:53 PM »

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Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** May 16, 2007, 08:02:24 PM »

Get a camera, go outside and look for funnel clouds.

cav58d · « **Reply #9 on:** May 16, 2007, 09:05:24 PM »

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Originally posted by majic
Err, where are you anyway? (Just wondering who shuts down for a tornado watch, did you mean "warning"?)

Connecticut. We don't see stuff like this ever, so thats why it was taken so seriously.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #10 on:** May 16, 2007, 09:56:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Get a camera, go outside and look for funnel clouds.

yep.

Dux · « **Reply #11 on:** May 16, 2007, 10:43:28 PM »

Hehe... Cav, I was guessing you were in southern NE. We had the watch this evening in Franklin County. Only a few times in my 42 years here have we ever been given a tornado watch... much less a real tornado.

Last one I remember ripped through Hartford in the mid-70's... destroyed a few valuable old planes at the New England Air Museum out at Bradley.

We've had maybe 5 or 6 watches since then... rarely happens, but when it does, people listen.

cav58d · « **Reply #12 on:** May 16, 2007, 10:58:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Dux
Hehe... Cav, I was guessing you were in southern NE. We had the watch this evening in Franklin County. Only a few times in my 42 years here have we ever been given a tornado watch... much less a real tornado.

Last one I remember ripped through Hartford in the mid-70's... destroyed a few valuable old planes at the New England Air Museum out at Bradley.

We've had maybe 5 or 6 watches since then... rarely happens, but when it does, people listen.

Yep....Better to be safe than sorry. Especially when it's dealing with about 8,000 people on campus today.

Slash27 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 17, 2007, 01:21:05 AM »

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Originally posted by red26
will look green for some reason.

Thats the light hitting the hail in the storm.

AWMac · « **Reply #14 on:** May 17, 2007, 04:52:00 AM »

Being from Oklahoma I can give you a bit of an insight of a pending Tornado on the ground.

Top 10 list of an inpending Tornado....

1. Horrific storm. Sideways rain. The house begins to move.

2. Sudden drop in temperature and hail.

3. Drop in pressure... if yer ears are popping, here's yer sign.

4. Bodies of severed Cows located high up in bent over trees.

5. Spinning chickens and other displaced farm animals.

6. Here comes the train... BTW notice no Railway tracks are within miles from you.

7. Some stupid girl calling out for Auntie Em.

8. Toto barks incessantly.

9. Flying Monkeys..... *shivers*

And last but not least on the Top Ten signs of an inpending Tornado...

10. Rosie O'Donnel first appears riding a bicycle and it turns into a broom.

Mac