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Post by rocketdog on Feb 2, 2016 19:54:42 GMT -5
One came through just West of me, however it didn't quite make it to the ground. Stayed a few hundred feet up in the air. Still the wind gusted to 75 mph or so. A few trees came down, one fell across my power line <of course>. But alls well. I use to live in Oklahoma and you haven't lived till you see one cutting across the plains kicking up dust and destruction 4 ways from Sunday.
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Post by aeroxbud on Feb 3, 2016 5:30:41 GMT -5
That must be an awesome, but scary sight.
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Post by Clank on Feb 3, 2016 6:13:33 GMT -5
Night time sucks in the pan handle. You hear the sirens going off and you really haven't a clue what's coming and where is at. Pitch black you can't see it so you can't run from it, hence the storm cellar out in our backyard when I lived in Amarillo.
And when I first moved there no one told me that at 10:00am on the last Friday of the month they test the city's tornado sirens. My neighbors got a good laugh as they watched the new guy bolt across the backyard in his boxers w/6yr and 4yr kid across each shoulder.
I hate goatheads more than tornados.
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Post by 90GTVert on Feb 3, 2016 9:09:32 GMT -5
I like to watch them on TV as long as no one is getting hurt or put out of their homes, but that's as close as I'd like to get to one. I've seen funnel clouds on days when there were tornado warnings and they ripped some roofs off and tore up trees within 5 miles of me. It's only been a few times in my life though. Just seeing the beginning of one and knowing something can come down from the sky and destroy everything you have in short order is pretty terrifying.
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Post by haulinweiner on Feb 3, 2016 13:46:37 GMT -5
Night time sucks in the pan handle. You hear the sirens going off and you really haven't a clue what's coming and where is at. Pitch black you can't see it so you can't run from it, hence the storm cellar out in our backyard when I lived in Amarillo. And when I first moved there no one told me that at 10:00am on the last Friday of the month they test the city's tornado sirens. My neighbors got a good laugh as they watched the new guy bolt across the backyard in his boxers w/6yr and 4yr kid across each shoulder. I hate goatheads more than tornados. I was in Vickburg MS once and seen the sky turn green bad feeling man I was also in Orlando FL when hurricane Jean came through f-in scary 100mph wind aint no joke f*** Florida I don't care how purty them Miami women are  ill take my NC mountains any day of the week
cool more gremlins 
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Post by rocketdog on Feb 4, 2016 17:59:44 GMT -5
Oh yeah Haulin, when the sky turns that greenish color and it starts to hail it's time to find a deep hole.
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Post by FrankenMech on Feb 5, 2016 17:03:01 GMT -5
I have lived in Kansas all of my life and I have never seen a tornado for certain. I did see what might have been one at night illuminated by a flash of lightning in a pitch black storm. The radio was reporting one in that area running parallel to the highway. I was in a car.
I have been in hail storms with up to 5" dia hail. That kind of ruins a car. My car was parked about 2 miles away and wasn't touched. Two inch hail kind of murdered my 85 van but broke no windows, I was in the van at the time. Other people were not so lucky. No sunroofs or ragtops for me. The hail smashed front and rear glass in many vehicles. A tornado passed within a mile to the South at that time. They always say to get out of your vehicle and get in a ditch. If I had done that the hail would have knocked me unconscious and the rain would have drowned me. Instead I wrapped myself in blankets and strapped myself into a middle seat facing North on the East side of the van.
I have been in a car in the middle of a fantastic lightning storm with no rain north of Wichita KS on I-135. I suppose 30-50 lightning strokes were hitting all over sending streamers along and across the road and ball lightning rolling along. Some of the strokes hit within 6' of the car. The concussion and ozone were overpowering. Very few people have ever seen ball lightning and I saw a half dozen. There were four of us in the car and the others were hiding below the windows as if that was going to do any good. The car was kind of like an insulated Faraday cage. It was an absolutely gorgeous scene and the fools missed it.
EDIT- BTW the lightning storm was in broad daylight but the light was that green sky scheisse... Also, sometimes, just before it hails there is a sudden silence, as if all the birds and insects can feel it coming. There is sometimes a sudden chill, probably a downdraft from all the falling ice.
A hole won't help you. What you need is cover. My father shouted for all of my family to go inside once just before the hail hit in that sudden silence. We all made it inside but him. He was about 15' from the door and was hit on the shoulder by about a 1" hailstone. I could hear the crack from inside. He had a goose-egg on that shoulder for a week and a bruise for another week.
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Post by thxcuz on Apr 11, 2016 9:29:15 GMT -5
I hate tornados for a different reason.
I'm the poor SOB who has to put the weather guy on the air when the weather gets bad. Of course ratings go up and management gets a "weather woody" so they stay on the air repeating the same info just so the other stations get off the air first. It becomes a Mexican standoff.
Next thing you know I have producers, news directors and general managers all telling me what camera to take and then proceed to tell me how I'm doing it wrong.
The next day the memo comes out congratulating the weather team and the news team and completely forgetting to mention the guy who actually made it happen.
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