....And I thought I've seen it all... **pic**

[Joel]

This photo is real.

link: NASA

This Eric Nguyen guy seems to be a stormchaser. His homepage with more pics are here: http://www.mesoscale.ws

That's one CRAZY ASIAN!

 

[White92]

Stop! You're making me homesick! :smile:

 

[White92]

Pics from an F5 Tornado. (largest tornado possible) 261-318 mph winds. This was about a mile from my parent's house in 1999. It didn't even rain where they were. This exact same area got hit again 2 summers ago.

This was Westmoore Highschool.

 

[White92]

This was a church and an apartment complex.....

 

[White92]

Suburban found, minus the engine.....

 

[White92]

Truck: stripped and wrapped around a utility pole....

 

[White92]

Neighborhood, also in Westmoore...

 

[White92]

This one is pretty crazy. The fence posts up front are bent towards the southeast. The fence posts in the background are bent toward the northeast.

 

[White92]

More of neighborhood....

 

[White92]

This one is pretty hard to see, but a roofing nail went straight through the windshield and stuck into the top of the steering wheel.

 

[RP-Motorsports]

We had a F5 hit a town near here about a decade ago (Oakfield WI) literally every single house was gone, and it plowed a mile wide path through a dense woods. They found paperwork from the town in MI (hundreds of miles away, and over Lake Michigan too) I drove through the town a week later, and now respect Tornado's 100%.


Cool actual pics here----> http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/oakfield/cs1.htm

 

[Bilulan]

that jiffy john must be pretty full to still be standing around all that devastation!

 

[nuccaJB]

Hey White that looks like a Madd Maxx movie. I hope that no one close to you was injured in that tornado.

 

[White92]

I'm pretty sure the portable toilet was put there after for clean up crews. And nobody I know was injured or killed in that one. Though some did die. Just nobody that I personally know.

 

[liftshard]

F5 tornado damage will generally resemble that caused by a large tsunami or an atomic bomb.

 

[SINCITY_NSX]

Why would you ever live in that part of the country. Thats crazzy Looks like the F5 couldnt bring down the outhouse :biggrin:

 

[NsXMas]

And people wonder why there's life in the hot AZ desert...

 

[White92]

Why would you ever live in that part of the country. Thats crazzy

Mostly because we LOVE the 100% humidity everyday. hehe

Growing up there it just seemed normal to have tornado warnings every other day and then be on tornado watches the rest of the time. You can't watch any of the local channels from springtime to to summer without having a map of the state at the bottom of the corner highlighting the areas where there is a tornado or where the conditions are right for one to form.

 

[KGP]

We had a F5 hit a town near here ...They found paperwork from the town in MI (hundreds of miles away, and over Lake Michigan too)

Two years ago my father in law was in one of his farm fields (Trenton, MO) and saw what looked like some checks scattered throughout a small portion of the field. Got out of the tractor and started picking them up. They were canceled checks, including the check box, from a guy who lives in Kansas, more than 200 miles away. Got alhold of the guy by phone, where the guy explained that a tornado had hit his house the day before.

 

[isellpower]

Regular occurance in Nebraska. I love to see people making a big deal out of 75-100 mph winds from the hurricanes. Shoot, that's just a spring breeze in the MidWest.

 

[heySkippy]

Regular occurance in Nebraska. I love to see people making a big deal out of 75-100 mph winds from the hurricanes. Shoot, that's just a spring breeze in the MidWest.

After 40+ years in Kansas I moved to Florida. People do get antsy down here over relatively mild winds.

But, I do respect the hurricanes too. That first one that hit us last year, Charlie, cut a tornado like swath up the middle of the state for a long, long ways. Between here and Orlando there are still hundreds of blue tarp roofs almost a year later and the trees have that same shredded look that tornado beat trees have.

Nonetheless, that picture in the first post is simply amazing. That is a once in a lifetime sight.