...because freedom, or something.

Get your priorities straight, would you?

http://nation.time.com/2013/06/02/3-veteran-storm-chasers-killed-by-oklahoma-tornado/

that was killed as well.

That has to be some kind of a record

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/06/04/oklahoma-tornadoes-facts/2389597/

Back when I was a youngin' I served as a storm spotter with the county civil defense. I've seen a lot of tornadoes and studied storms as a hobby most of my life, and I can't recall a tornado like this one. It is one odd duck. Structure, path,development, size.... it really stands out as different. It was one wicked monster

Spent decades as a weather reporter and historian next door in Texas. Once survived an F-5 with a carousel of twisters, and you are right about this one in OK. We have a new player in the wind.

Such horrible power.

Think I'll stay on Long Island and try my luck with the hurricanes.

as their winds at ground level slow down, while the winds near the top keep their momentum. Data from 2004 show this tendency seems to have increased. Residents of hurricane-stricken areas should prepare for the eventuality of tornadoes.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2005/0608-hurricanes_spawn_tornadoes.htm

Some weather observers around Texas were keeping a close eye on Pacific Hurricane Barbara as her remnants moved into the Bay of Campeche, and the satellite images suggested some of her energy may have converged with the system that produced the most recent OK tornado. I guess we'll know more when the monthly NOAA bulletins come out. In the meantime, I am wondering if Barbara's remnants are also contributing to the depression trying to swirl up in Gulf right now.

Good link, by the way. Bad news but better to know now. Thanks.

Caught more than a few people off guard

the tornadoes are over.

upper Midwest.

I have to wonder about the possibility of tornadoes

The video they showed of that tornado was incredible.

Look for spot shortages of building supplies in the region.

at first it was called a F4 but then after the destruction ...it was realized it was an F5 but look at the speed 295....why not call it a 300mph or 305 because it would be off the Fujita Scale ....I believe it was an F6 something that was not natural by any means


Nature seems to be going extreme

the weather channel needs to REPORT correctly...they have been underreporting the wind speeds because this was off the scale and the scale needs to be revised ....due to climate change F6 and F7 need to be included

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fujita_scale_technical.svg

That man was a stitch. Years ago when I was an undergrad at The University of Chicago I took a class in meteorology. The last week of class our professor got some guest lecturers to come in and talk to us. One of them was Dr. T.T. Fujita. He later studied microdownbursts but at the time was still doing tornados - multi-vortex tornados were his big interest. So, anyway, T.T. comes in and gives a good lecture on tornados with cool slides and stores. At that point in his career he had not actually seen a tornado on the ground and his vanity license plate read Twister 0. A few years later he saw one and changed the plate to Twister 1. T.T. was born in Japan and immigrated to the US at an age where although he spoke English well, he still had an accent. I can still see and hear him in my mind's eye: "You think tornados don't crimb mountains - rook!" as he flashed a photo of a tornado path up one side of a mountain and down the other side. And "You think tornados don't closs water - rook!" as he showed us a photo of a tornado path on either side of a small river. He finished his lecture by saying: "Now it is tornado season here in midwest. If you are out dliving and see a tornado, you pull over to side of the load, you stop cah, you get out of cah and take photos of tornado. You send those photos to me, Dr. T.T. Fujita here at Univehsity of Chicago. Then you get back in cah and dlive rike herh*."


* I can't figure out a way to accurately transcribe how Dr. Fujita pronounced "hell". I'm sure a linguistics person could, but I'm an Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture major. However, we all knew what he meant. We did get a laugh from his "send me the photos and then get out of there', as if wherever you stopped your car, a photo developer and a post office would be directly available.