Whats with all the tornados?

[chris lindberg]

It's because Planet X is getting closer to Earth...

[Azure]

^^^I blame the NUA.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

April-June in tornado alley. Happens every year, though some are worse than others. We've had 330 tornado or severe thunderstorm warnings in the Wichita TV market (most of Kansas, parts of Northern Oklahoma and Southern Nebraska and extreme Western Colorado) since Thursday evening. It has been intense for sure.

But it's not out of the ordinary.

Are you telling me every year there has been F-3 to F-4 tornado's weekly killing people and we didn't hear about? Surely that's not the case, I have been following extreme weather for years and i can't remember ever hearing this many so early, CNN just said the US is approaching 900 recorded tornado's already with the strongest ones likely to come in June and July and will likely "smash" the record for the highest number of tornadoes ever recorded and the highest number of 158mph (f-3) and higher.

So far over a 100 people have died, can you imagine if these would have hit 30 years ago before satellites and early warnings were available.

[KevanGuy]

The jet stream the past week or so has had a pretty crazy wave to it, that is what has been responsible for some (most? I havent looked every day) of the tornadoes, the rain we've had and the +25 temps in the NWT. It was bringing the cool air right down to tornado alley and the gulf was pumping the hot air towards the cold. That is what makes for these serious storms, not your run of the mill day time heating type storms.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by T@T

Are you telling me every year there has been F-3 to F-4 tornado's weekly killing people and we didn't hear about? Surely that's not the case, I have been following extreme weather for years and i can't remember ever hearing this many so early, CNN just said the US is approaching 900 recorded tornado's already with the strongest ones likely to come in June and July and will likely "smash" the record for the highest number of tornadoes ever recorded and the highest number of 158mph (f-3) and higher.

So far over a 100 people have died, can you imagine if these would have hit 30 years ago before satellites and early warnings were available.

Early? We are more than half way through peak tornado season.

I said that some years are worse than others, but there have been several years that I can recall this kind of activity.

The strongest tornadoes are almost always in April and May too.

[Displaced Flames fan]

http://climate.engin.umich.edu/tornadopaths/

Here's a great resource. You can locate tornadoes by date, locale, fujita rank and look at video that may be available for some. Statistics for length on the ground, width of damage path and fatalities and injuries is also available.

You can also use the calendar to see how many tornadoes were reported on each day. The color coded legend lets you know how many (a range). Unfortunately the data is only complete to 2005.

[chris lindberg]

nm.

[T@T]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science...ear/index.html

[BlackArcher101]

Damn, shouldn't have passed on that storm chasing vacation tour this year.

[burn_baby_burn]

I actually drove near Windsor, Colorado last Friday morning on the I-25 heading south past Ft. Collins. Roof ripped off a barn and laying in the field. Roof ripped off a house. Grain bins blown out in the middle of fields in crumpled heaps. Irrigation pipe spread all over the place.

Later that afternoon I was stopped in Boise City, Oklahoma fueling up. It was just as windy as Lethbridge in March and black clouds were accumulating to the west. I was actually getting a little concerned.

[metal_geek]

Maybe the downturn in the US economy has increased the number of people living in mobile homes....
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[badnarik]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science...ear/index.html

That's the town where I was born. An F5 pretty much destroyed it last Sunday.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/app...gory=TORNADOES

[burn_baby_burn]

I read this on the front page of the Pueblo Chieftain when I was passing through there on Sunday.

http://www.chieftain.com/articles/20...3228121645.txt

[chris lindberg]

Wow, even up here in Northern Ontario the threat of a tornado is becoming very real, there was one in Minnesota just South of Thunder Bay, Ontario, five in Manitoba...

The U.S. already broke the record and the half-way point of the tornado season is just approaching.