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- vroom101, on 10/18/2008, -3/+21Photo via: http://flickr.com/photos/therangonagin/561660040/
Watch "NOVA: Hunt for the Supertwister" starting at 45:11 (45 minutes and 11 seconds): http://www.hulu.com/watch/23346/nova-hunt-for-the- ... (www.hulu.com/watch/23346/nova-hunt-for-the-supertwister)
Pics worth a peek . . .
1. http://flickr.com/photos/fadilfb/2146255462/
2. http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/634876155/
3. http://busychild424.livejournal.com/515061.html
4. http://flickr.com/photos/digicana/2537247113/
5. http://flickr.com/photos/digicana/2627525130/
6. http://flickr.com/photos/dirtymouse/467887243/
7. http://flickr.com/photos/nebraskasc/2554683895/
8. http://flickr.com/photos/rachelrusinski/2555447764 ... (flickr.com/photos/rachelrusinski/2555447764/)
9. http://flickr.com/photos/waynephotoguy/1422330353/
10. http://flickr.com/photos/donnab68/125263941/ - subigo, on 10/19/2008, -0/+5I wouldn't call that picture rare or stunning.
- vroom101, on 10/18/2008, -5/+8Interesting reading . . .
11. "Seeing the Inside of a Tornado" by Alonzo A. Justice (Monthly Weather Review, May 1930, Volume 58, Issue 5, pages 205 and 206), original article, PDF: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/058/mwr-058-05 ...
The image for "Figure 2" (referenced in "Seeing the Inside of a Tornado") is in http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/058/mwr-058-05 ... (docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/058/mwr-058-05-0204.pdf)
The article also mentions a "photograph opposite p. 448 of MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW of 1919." You will find page 448 in the article "Kansas Tornadoes" by S. D. Flora (Monthly Weather Review, July 1919, Volume 47, Issue 7, pages 447 and 448) at http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/047/mwr-047-07 ... (docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/047/mwr-047-07-0447.pdf).
HTML version for "Seeing the Inside of a Tornado" -- no images or photos: http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/inside_t ... (www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/inside_tornado.html)
12. Excerpt from the article "Kansas Tornadoes" by S. D. Flora (Monthly Weather Review, July 1919, Volume 47, Issue 7, pages 447 and 448) at http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/047/mwr-047-07 ... (docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/047/mwr-047-07-0447.pdf):
The freakish occurrences that result from these storms will tax the credulity of a person who has never seen them. Undoubtedly there is the usual tendency to exaggerate them, but after examining the wreckage a person is inclined to believe almost any story that is told. The often-recited instances of straws being blown with such violence they are left sticking in the bark and even in the wood of a tree or fence post have to be seen in order to be appreciated. Chickens are sometimes stripped of their feathers and left alive, though more often they are killed, if near enough the vortex of the cloud for that to happen. An instance has been related on creditable authority of a dresser being smashed to kindling and its mirror carried some distance and set down against a fence without being cracked; also of a window sash being blown from a railway depot, which was demolished, and laid down on an adjoining lawn with a heavy iron scale weight on it without the glass being broken. A glass jar of fruit from a shelf in this same depot was blown a considerable distance and picked up later in perfect condition. The writer has known of an instance where a well-built schoolhouse was torn into small pieces and large elm trees about it uprooted, yet a small coal shed among the trees and a short distance from the schoolhouse escaped with only one board missing. It is interesting to note that several people who had vainly tried to get into the schoolhouse for shelter from the storm had taken refuge in this coal shed and noted in reading over the accounts of these storms is the number of almost miraculous escapes. Unexplainable and almost unbelievable occurrences similiar to the above that have come to the attention of the writer might be repeated at great length.
Tornado paths seem to be almost entirely independent of the topography of a country, popular opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. It is often said of a town which has never been visited by one that it owes its immunity to being in a valley, but the tornado of June 5, 1917, crossed the Kansas River Valley a few miles above Topeka, mowing down trees on the steep slope of the high demolishing the little town of Elmont, which is on the lee side of a high bluff in the valley of Halfcreek. Lightning is sometimes erronequsly said never to strike twice in the same place, but this is certainly not true of a tornado. The little town of Codell, in Rooks County, Kans., in the western part of the State, was struck by a tornado on May 25 for three years in succession, each storm coming at approximately the same hour of the day.
It is not at all unusual to find persons in Kansas who have been eyewitnesses of tornadoes, but photographs of the cloud are exceedingly rare. Usually one is so absorbed in watching the unusual sight or in getting to a place of safety that a camera is not thought of until it is too late. The views accompanying this article were collected by the writer in connection with an investigation of these storms in Kansas that has extended over a period of 12 years and the sources from which they have been received leave no doubt as to their authenticity. - Nubli, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2It makes sense when you think about it. You have multiple whirlwinds spinning in the same direction, they're bound to join together into a larger one eventually (I think..)
- cynicalcheeto, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2God has some *****-up wrists, then.
- vroom101, on 10/18/2008, -1/+313. Stunning photo snapped on 11 April 1965 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA, by Paul Huffman of a massive, killer, double-funnel tornado: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00217.htm (www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00217.htm)
More info . . .
(a) NOAA Remembers The Midwest's Deadly 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2418.htm
(b) "April 11, 1965, Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak": http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/?n=palmsuntor
(c) "The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak - April 11, 1965": http://web.archive.org/web/20070219124937/homepage ... (web.archive.org/web/20070219124937/homepages.wmich.edu/~b1naftel/outbreak65.html)
(d) "The Palm Sunday Story, April 11, 1965": http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/program_areas/events/h ... (www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/program_areas/events/historical/palmsunday1965/index.php)
(e) "April 11, 1965: Palm Sunday Tornadoes": http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/ ... (www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/pages/albums/1965_tornadoes/1965_tornadoes_albumPage01.html) - vroom101, on 10/18/2008, -1/+3Spelling correction for #12 (second paragraph, third sentence):
Lightning is sometimes erroneously said never to strike twice in the same place, but this is certainly not true of a tornado. - inactive, on 10/18/2008, -0/+2Damn nature, you scary!
- ouRONIN, on 10/19/2008, -0/+1We see this every other day in Oklahoma.
- Jikul, on 10/19/2008, -0/+1The thumbnail looks much better than the real thing.
- drakenlot, on 10/19/2008, -0/+1The machines are attacking! Run!!
- MRCAB, on 10/27/2008, -0/+1Oh-noes! It's the fist of god!!!!
- Tynictansol, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1Here in Texas... ::Eye roll:: I think the 'mini-whirlwinds' is referring to the bands of smaller vortices(Vortexes?) that make up that descending column in the picture. Funnel cloud, on the other hand, *is* a tornado which just hasn't touched down yet.
- jc265, on 10/19/2008, -0/+1Uhhhuhuhhuhuh hey Beavis. That looks like a penis.
- sockpuppets, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1Not doing movies. Right where I need them.
- HosainH, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1Wow looks like a fist to me
- chaostheoryd, on 10/18/2008, -1/+1I like pic and the extra sources!! But what is so rare about this pic? There are plenty of pics and some videos online that show whirlwinds extending from tornadoes and funnel clouds.
- idavidtang, on 10/18/2008, -4/+4It's funny because the one-way signs from opposite directions point directly to the spot where Cloud is going to punch.
- joelcass, on 10/18/2008, -1/+1Stunning? Really?
- bobdole369, on 10/19/2008, -0/+0If you see whats in that picture - don't take a picture of it. Run. Run and hide. Get under something - do it NOW! If your in a car - leave it - RUN!!!!
- therangonagin, on 10/21/2008, -0/+0I seriously didn't notice the signs until after I jumped in a car and got the heck out of there - I got pulled over by the cops for speeding, but didn't get a ticket. :-)
- therangonagin, on 10/21/2008, -0/+0I was taking a series of pictures as I turned in a circle. After I took that pic, I saw what I had just photographed just a second before the wind knocked me over. I was literally less than half a mile from the formation site. I jumped in my car, and began speeding away. As fast as I could.
I got stopped by a sheriff who made me get in the ditch; he calmed me down by teasing me that he pulled me over for speeding. - AlanFang, on 10/18/2008, -3/+2Does this look like the fist of god slamming down into the earth to anyone else?
- inactive, on 10/18/2008, -5/+3Where is Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt when you need them?
- crodulfo, on 10/18/2008, -4/+1should have had an album with all those pics. . .
- socialexpert, on 10/18/2008, -5/+2This is the extreme Nature Power...!
- thundercloud39, on 10/18/2008, -5/+1SUCK IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
- inactive, on 10/18/2008, -5/+1Wow it´s amazing! I love it
- Alias1431, on 10/18/2008, -5/+1WORM SIGN!
- solidwhetstone, on 10/18/2008, -6/+1That pic was boring. This is a little more exciting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNL7ASvl4k4
- Chainheart2, on 10/18/2008, -7/+2I call it: "His Divine Scrotum, His Graceful Teabagging"
- LeviTheSmith, on 10/18/2008, -7/+1If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open?
- bonjourmr, on 10/18/2008, -8/+1Here is a video of it: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=9mmZjjm0Hqg
- binky79, on 10/18/2008, -10/+1Mini-Whirlwinds? Here in Texas we call those Tornadoes. The name sounds a lot scarier. People might not be afraid of a "Mini-Whirlwind Warning," that actually sounds kind-of fun.
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