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Tornados. Does your region experience this weather phenomenon?
We had a nasty set of storms go through this afternoon. It made me wonder if any other regions of the world have to put up with tornados. Or is it just a North American thing. I lived through a F5(highest classification) that hit Oklahoma City in 99, and we have had a few near misses on the home farm.
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9/6/2008, 3:11
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Jeash
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Re: Tornados. Does your region experience this weather phenomenon?
F1 still can do some damage. Last fall we had a F3 touch down on a town twenty miles from my farm, the tornado stayed on the ground for five or six miles before it lifted up and the rotation eventually went directly over the top of our farm. Luckily it was no longer on the ground. We didn't have any structural damage but we had a lot of debris from the town land in our fields and yard. My neighbor found a mailbox in yard that belonged to a family who lived eighteen miles away.
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9/6/2008, 12:38
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We had one skim the farm a couple years ago. Broke some trees in the woods, and pushed an empty forage wagon across the barnyard. No serious damage to our farm, but it touched down about two miles away and broke off a few electric poles.
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9/6/2008, 18:45
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Jeash
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Re: Tornados. Does your region experience this weather phenomenon?
I need to read the fine print. Is a F.1 the equivelant of a "dust devil". Those are little twenty foot tall twisters that occur on hot days. Typically, they are only good for moving windrows of hay.
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10/6/2008, 12:55
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Re: Tornados. Does your region experience this weather phenomenon?
that'll be about it. once in my life I've seen, I think it was three of them, twisters that reach over a hundred feet in height. those three I guess was somewhere between two to three hundred feet, so by our standards they where huge but when I saw eight of the same size and at the same time up in Canada, I was told they where just little babies.
after seing a couple of F5 raging through Oklahoma on telly, taking the tarmac with them as they crossed highways, I've come to appreciate the gentle nature of the climate in my part of the world like never before.
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10/6/2008, 13:37
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Re: Tornados. Does your region experience this weather phenomenon?
We had something last winter that took big 6 cement fibre sheets the top off of one bar and carried bits of them up to 200 metres away. Also put the cover of the neighbours hot tub up onto their roof, and they reckon it weighs nearly 50kg.
Happened after dark so exactly how big it was we don't know. Bigger than those you see lifting hay or straw at times, but nothing like the monsters in the USA.
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10/6/2008, 14:12
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nothing chills me more than the sight of a still low dark green sky.Ive seen that once here locally and when I drove back thru that area a few weeks later something had twisted the tops of the gum trees(branches 1 ft thick or more) off in a strip about 1km wide.
In QLD I have seen where stroms a km or so wide have torn a swarth out of mango plantations - literally ripped the trees out by the roots.
While living on the downs in QLD my husband said a storm came thru one night and tore all the gums out on one side of the ridge and laid them flat facing one way and then on the otherside of his ridge ripped them out facing the opposite way.Picked up his irrigation pipes and carried them off,wrapping them around things ,bending and buckling them beyond repair. and took the hayshed apart.
They dont actually call these isolated storms tornados tho.
set off for town one day while I was living in MN and drove into a strom that turned so violent I couldnt see the end of the bonnet for rain (you know you drive along and it starts to rain but gets worse and worse til you cant see)found a driveway and waited.Did wonder if my car was going to be blown away .turns out later ,according to the news that I drove into a "mini Tornado " that was only a mile wide and picked up a pole barn and carried it off.
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10/6/2008, 22:07
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This area is unique. If you travel north, you run into a whole slew of severe weather, if you travel south you run into "tornado country". Here at this location, we rarely if ever get any storm that is severe (severe status, winds 55mph+, large hail, etc). Of course the way the setup is, isn't favorable. I remember mentioning that to a NWS emoloyee, and they said "you would have to have a mountain as tall as the thunderstorm". Yet when you think about that statement, how come the rockies don't get tornadoes? Same goes with the hills around here. They seem to form in areas that are primarily flat..
A good example of hills killing a nader was several years ago. A MAJOR tornado moved through Great Barrington, Mass. I forget its full strength, but I remember hearing something on the order of F3-F5. Well the tornado hit the side of a mountain, and they showed pictures of this. It looked like it was hit with a giant sledgehammer. The trees were crushed up agains the hill, and the nader died shortly after. So hills effecting naders in a negative way, seem likely (I am tallking 2000' mountains (I call them hills)).
We did have a tornado watch here on Tuesday, June 10th. Only severe thunderstorm warnings cropped up, and some damage in some areas, but once again not here at the farm.
Oh and anyone see the photos of the flooding in Wisconsin? Saw a link on holsteinworld.com.
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11/6/2008, 22:59
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