Yeah as bad as loosing 24 people is if that monster had of waited 10-15 minutes to drop down hundreds could have been killed. fortunately they had a lot of warning.
Well that's not the way to make me smile.. but good zinger. We can't really pay our players to come play though so we will have to continue to let the SEC win titles until they go ahead and let all the schools pay their players like they allow the SEC to do.
Didn't your school have a qb get busted for taking money from a car dealership?
Hope you're safe today buddy looking nasty out there.
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Incredible, a man is guy caught in the path of the Moore tornado, trying to reach his son at school.
I can't stress enough how incredibly irresponsible the person that filmed this video was. Even experienced storm chasers would never stop this close to a tornado of that size to take video. Their path can be erratic and unpredictable, even though he was on the "safe" side of the storm he was so close that he could have easily been in the path within seconds. Do not attempt to replicate this video!!!
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I can't stress enough how incredibly irresponsible the person that filmed this video was. Even experienced storm chasers would never stop this close to a tornado of that size to take video. Their path can be erratic and unpredictable, even though he was on the "safe" side of the storm he was so close that he could have easily been in the path within seconds. Do not attempt to replicate this video!!!
I'm sure under normal circumstances he wouldn't have been anywhere near that thing but parents do crazy things trying to protect their children.
True but he was stopped to take video. He should have been getting the hell out of there instead of filming. He easily could have died doing that and then he wouldn't be able to ever protect his kids again.
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I can't stress enough how incredibly irresponsible the person that filmed this video was. Even experienced storm chasers would never stop this close to a tornado of that size to take video. Their path can be erratic and unpredictable, even though he was on the "safe" side of the storm he was so close that he could have easily been in the path within seconds. Do not attempt to replicate this video!!!
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True but he was stopped to take video. He should have been getting the hell out of there instead of filming. He easily could have died doing that and then he wouldn't be able to ever protect his kids again.
While I don't disagree with you about this guy being an idiot there are storm chasers who drive into tornados. Meet the Dominator
Think of this as a the movie twister but they drive the whole car in , instead of that machine , to collect data and info of being in the tornado. I believe he also has Hi def/Imax camera on the top that shoots 360 degres and they are making it into an imax film.
Nonetheless the guy in the video is an idiot. We have a pretty clear line in Oklahoma dividing people. People who go out and watch these things and drive around in them like idiots and People who take them serious, get to cover, and try to survive. Odds are the the 1st group of people have never been hit by an actual tornado because usually once youre close to one you join the 2nd group. I have been in 3 major tornados now and countless small ones. I hear there is a great chance of Tornados developing around 2pm, I leave work at noon , get everything ready to hop in the storm shelter.
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Well F Me....
I don't often get worked up over events. There are times when all of the parameters are there and very little happens, generally because the models underestimate the CAP strength which prevents thunderstorm development. You better pray they aren't estimating this one correctly because the rest of the ingredients are all there for large damaging tornadoes between the hours of 6pm and midnight across C OK. This includes the greater OKC metro area. I hate seeing this. That said, I want each of you to take this seriously. Don't panic, have a plan, you can and will survive tornadoes as long as you take shelter. Keep your weather radios and smartphone apps ready. Remember, once tornadoes start moving into the city, cell phone networks will become overloaded so getting out phone calls and weather data will be stressed, text messages are better. If destruction happens and that is a very high possibility, then communication is severed. It is hard to remove emotion when I see the environment set up like this knowing that another Moore-like event is about to unfold. Now that I have your attention here is the forecast below.
A dryline sets up again just to the west of OKC near Weatherford this afternoon. A weak cold front outflow approaches from the north and sets up near Guthrie to Kingfisher. Storms will fire along both boundaries by 5pm. A region of low pressure will eject from the S TX panhandle into WC OK during the late evening hours. This forces the surface winds up to 2,000 to back to the east while the winds above curve to the west. In addition after 6pm the low level jet increases those winds speeds to 50 kts above ground causing the shear values to approach helicity values of 800 which is off the scale. With instability remaining extremely high as CAPE values peak around 6,000 earlier in the afternoon, the stage is set for near dark and nighttime tornadoes across C OK through midnight. I see more of a May 3rd, 1999 type event with slow moving tornadoes and numerous ones, several EF3s to 5. It's hard to imagine that this is what the data shows. So what needs to happen to prevent this? Read next paragraph.
So tornadic conditions are maximized across C OK. That doesn't mean other areas of the state especially E of I-35 or S OK won't see them, anywhere is fair game. So, if we can get storms to form early, say by 3pm and move through C OK before the better shear gets in place any tornado threat will be minimized as much as possible considering the environment. Also, if we can get a cluster of storms to form along the boundary to the north and those move south that helps a little too. Anything to prevent storms from becoming isolated from the others. Finally if we can get a big cluster of storms to form across S/SC OK that can disrupt the air to the north across the metro reducing instability and causing subsidence and messing up the low level wind fields. So those are the contingencies that need to take place to limit the tornado threat. If none of those happen, well, then you better pray that the models are wrong.
I'll try to post updates today, may get tied up in the field and especially if communication becomes an issue. As much as many of you hate the drama on the local TV news stations, today will be one of those days where it's actually going to be life saving.
While I don't disagree with you about this guy being an idiot there are storm chasers who drive into tornados. Meet the Dominator
Think of this as a the movie twister but they drive the whole car in , instead of that machine , to collect data and info of being in the tornado. I believe he also has Hi def/Imax camera on the top that shoots 360 degres and they are making it into an imax film.
Yeah the Dominator and the TIV are exceptions of course. TIV got video of a direct hit last week, it was pretty crazy.
A dryline sets up again just to the west of OKC near Weatherford this afternoon. A weak cold front outflow approaches from the north and sets up near Guthrie to Kingfisher. Storms will fire along both boundaries by 5pm. A region of low pressure will eject from the S TX panhandle into WC OK during the late evening hours. This forces the surface winds up to 2,000 to back to the east while the winds above curve to the west. In addition after 6pm the low level jet increases those winds speeds to 50 kts above ground causing the shear values to approach helicity values of 800 which is off the scale. With instability remaining extremely high as CAPE values peak around 6,000 earlier in the afternoon, the stage is set for near dark and nighttime tornadoes across C OK through midnight.
Holy #### dude, stay safe! That is an ugly forecast!
Apparently grapefruit sized hail is expected to come down? Yikes!
Exaggeration alert! Hale never falls that big in bunches, the odd time some fuse together on the way down but you might get 2 or 3 of those from the same storm.
There are lots of fake pics out there but this is the largest confirmed hale stone on record from Oahu, Hawaii last year.
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Thank you for everything CP. Good memories and thankful for everything that has been done to help me out. I will no longer take part on these boards. Take care, Go Flames Go.
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