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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mustaine on July 25, 2005, 11:57:11 PM
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be just starting to doze off at night, and have the tornado siren go off (which is right near your house).
called to make sure, yup tornado sighted. it's midnight, can't see a thing, live in an upper apartment, no renters insurance. :eek: :( :eek:
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Pfft... I live in a doublewide. 2 years ago my 1500 lb metal well house wound up 186 yards away. The house didn't get a scratch, but it was freaky there for a couple seconds.
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It rains here in Oregon more than most places.
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jb73 what state you live in?
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Tornado siren? How the heck is it triggered?
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a lot of towns use wireless radios to activete them using audio tones or what not. ours is set on a tone of somewhere 2000 hz and when it hears that exact tone, it activates the siren via radio transmitter at the dispatcher's place
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JB73 is a cheesehead.
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Originally posted by Meatwad
jb73 what state you live in?
WI
the one we have is triggered directly from the national weather service.
turns out there was a "funnel" about 7 or 8 miles north of me, never touched down.
just to be awakened by that... grrrrrr :mad:
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That was a kick bellybutton storm last night. Woke me up during my 16 hour nap around 1am.
You're still in Germantown right 73? Most of the big storms peak a few miles west of Milwaukee. "We're too close to the lake," they say, "no tornado will hit us." Then about three years ago we had one touch down at a busy intersection a few yards from the airport. It spuns some cars around and tossed one into a blockbuster.
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yup.. still G-town. the bad nasty stuff was just south east of jackson.
there were warnings all over for port washington, and along the lakeshore.
i remember that one your are talking about. the chilli peppers were playing summerfest that day, and my cousin and some friends were at the show. one of them couldn't get home because they blocked the roads to their house. he wwas freaked, not knowing if the tornado took out his house (it was fine).
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Originally posted by Thrawn
Tornado siren? How the heck is it triggered?
They have a switch that resembles and probably IS the butterfly trigger from a M-2 MG. When a tornado is sited via radar the tornado gunner responds to the switch and attempts to intimidate said tornado with a loud piercing wail from what looks like a large machine gun. Canadian tornado's are instantly terrorized and vanish up their oubliete.
:p
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Tornado siren...
If i'll hear a sound of a sirens in Moscow at night - the first thing that will come into my mind is that we are being bombed. :(
Heard a siren test on Gagarin square going to work in 1999. Got freaking scared. And it was only one siren, not all civilian defence sirens in every block.
At school we once were sent to a basement to check some old stuff like Army tents we used in summer camps, and we found a manual siren underneath. Only 3-4 handle rotations in a basement made the whole school (3 buildings) almost run out in horror...
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Boroda.. thats basically what it is... a giant air raid siren on top of a telephone pole. it spins around when going off (so the sounds does not go just 1 direction)
it is loud a crap, and i guess it could be called a "civil emergency" siren, though tornados are the only thing that really sets it off.
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Originally posted by Mustaine
Boroda.. thats basically what it is... a giant air raid siren on top of a telephone pole. it spins around when going off (so the sounds does not go just 1 direction)
it is loud a crap, and i guess it could be called a "civil emergency" siren, though tornados are the only thing that really sets it off.
I have heard that in Far East they have "Tsunami warning sirens", triggered by sudden ocean water level going down. Or they don't have sirens, just alarms? Sirens are assosiated only with air raids here :(
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Originally posted by Boroda
I have heard that in Far East they have "Tsunami warning sirens", triggered by sudden ocean water level going down. Or they don't have sirens, just alarms? Sirens are assosiated only with air raids here :(
Boroda, we have literally HUNDREDS of tornados a year here in the midwestern USA. A warning system makes sense under those circumstances. During the springtime and summer here, there are frequent thunderstorms, and the possibility of tornados forming is always there in those circumstances.
In recent years, the country has installed a series of doppler radar stations, that give a good indication of where tornados are forming. The number of alerts has gone up, since the radar system doesn't depend on an observer reporting the tornado.
Do they have a lot of tornados in Russia? We don't hear much about it here if they do.
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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...
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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 (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/oakfield/cs1.htm) that is about 35 miles from my house
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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
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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 :eek:
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lol in texas, when the tornado sirens go off, everyone runs outside to look at it. I love texas.:aok
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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.
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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...
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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