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Mach Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 05:04AM

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Mach Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 05:32AM

Pulled over on the side of the highway and watched it cruise right by..... best video I've seen, so far.

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Mach Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 05:48AM

Ok, this is the best as far as closeness, I would probably do something like this, hard to say, I've never actually been IN a tornado before, it kind turns on him, he gets nervous. drinking smiley

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jgoins Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 10:53AM

Monday night a tornado passed within a couple of miles of our mobile home. While my grown kids ran for storm cellars around their homes we just sat in our living room watching the weather coverage on TV and listening to our scanner. We knew it would be a near miss before it came through. We have a storm cellar at the house nearby we could have used but we never used it. No sense running for cover when you can track it's movements from it's creation by listening to the storm chasers on the scanner. All storm chaser in our area use ham radio to report to the weather bureau and we have them programmed into our scanner.
quasi Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 11:45AM

Glad you're OK, jgoins, I was wondering how you were doing.
Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 05:04PM

Last weekend in heading to our family Easter get together I came across obvious evidence of a tornado having hit here within just 4 or 5 miles of the casa. I found huge trees uprooted, the tops of others just ripped off, trees split in half, broken branches everywhere, buildings destroyed and lots of houses with tarps coverin their roofs to keep out more rains before repairs could be made.

The damage stretched over about 3 miles along a lil 2 lane highway and I have no idea what may have occurred past what was visible from the road. Luckily this was in the country and not a highly populated area eye
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Good to hear JG's Ok, been wonderin about that with all the storms in Ar. of late.

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jgoins Report This Comment
Date: April 28, 2011 06:45PM

Well I will always be ok no matter what happens. We are expecting another bout this weekend. Love the excitement but hate the destruction and lives lost.
woberto Report This Comment
Date: April 29, 2011 05:43AM

Holy crap!
We were only just talking tornados the other week after the disaster in Japan. I hope we didn't jinx it.
jgoins Report This Comment
Date: April 29, 2011 12:00PM

Well Wobie you do know 2012 is just around the corner.drinking smiley
Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: April 29, 2011 01:33PM

The tally is now up over 500 tornadoes so far this season. I dunno the total death toll so far but in just the ones that hit on 4-27 there were around 300 in that day alone. This is turning out to be the most active tornado season in roughly the past 40yrs eye
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pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: April 29, 2011 04:32PM

global warming isn't real
Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: April 29, 2011 06:56PM

^^^^Agreement^^^^ smileys with beer

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fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: April 29, 2011 09:08PM

on the contrary, it is a scientific fact. the only difference is the scientifically proven time line and the liberal time line. the earth has been naturally warming since the ice age.
jgoins Report This Comment
Date: May 01, 2011 11:04AM

What about the polar shift? Can that be seen as global warming?
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: May 01, 2011 12:19PM

yes, the natural floating of the poles is normal and is the biggest contributing factor.
jgoins Report This Comment
Date: May 02, 2011 11:01AM

One prediction of this shift I saw showed the equator will position itself across the US. Hooray for year round tropical weather.
woberto Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2011 09:33PM

Jinx. Now there's been a Tornado in Aukland, New Zealand (that's middle-earth for you yanks)
Waiting fir Gak's report...
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: May 03, 2011 09:50PM

i hope Gak and family are o.k.
GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: May 04, 2011 09:18AM

Thanks for the concern. I'm ok, but the shopping mall that got hit by the tornado I often shop at and the 1 casualty worked for the same company that I work for (although for a different division). It was a bad tornado for NZ - we don't get that many - but nothing compared to those in the southern US states.
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: May 04, 2011 12:59PM

glad to hear you guys are o.k. spinning smiley sticking its tongue out
jgoins Report This Comment
Date: May 05, 2011 11:46AM

Here in Arkansas I am building an Ark in my back yard.
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: May 06, 2011 04:37PM

Public Information Statement Statement as of 8:50 am CDT on May 6, 2011

... Surveys completed from the April 25 and 26 tornadoes in North Texas...
Corrected direction of tornado number 3 and County location for
tornado number 15

Monday and Tuesday... April 25th and 26th... several tornadoes occurred
across North Texas. This same storm system then moved east and
produced the historic tornado outbreak over Mississippi and Alabama.
The National Weather Service forecast office in Fort Worth has
spent the past week surveying... documenting... and determining the
number of tornadoes across North Texas from last week.

National Weather Service ground damage surveys... radar data... media
reports... and interviews with local emergency management officials
determined 21 tornadoes over the two day span of April 25 and
April 26. Of these 21... 2 were rated EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita
scale... and the remaining 19 tornadoes were rated EF-0. The
tornadoes which caused the EF-1 damage occurred in Limestone and
Van Zandt counties... in Groesbeck... and between Ben Wheeler and
Edom respectively.

The 21 tornadoes in two days equals the number of confirmed
tornadoes in the WFO Fort Worth County Warning Area for all of the
calendar year 2010. While the data remains preliminary... there
have been 27 confirmed tornadoes in 2011 across the 46 counties in
WFO Fort Worth County Warning Area.

Details for the 21 tornadoes on April 25/26

Tornado number 1 began at approximately 155 PM on April 25th... 2
miles southeast of Bluff Dale in Erath County. This tornado
produced EF-0 damage and had a path length of 2.5 miles and an
approximate width of 150 yards.

Tornado number 2 began at approximately 2 PM on April 25th... 4
miles south southeast of Bluff Dale in Hood County. This tornado
produced EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately one
half mile and an approximate width of 25 yards.

Tornado number 3 began at approximately 3 PM on April 25th... 3.5 miles
northeast of Glen Rose in Somervell County. This tornado produced EF-0
damage and had a path length of approximately three quarters of a mile
and an approximate width of 50 yards.

Tornado number 4 began at approximately 310 PM on April 25th... just
north of Cleburne State Park in Johnson County. This tornado
produced EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately 2.5
miles and an approximate width of 400 yards.

Tornado number 5 began at approximately 315 PM on April 25th... 3
miles to the northeast of Cleburne State Park in Johnson County. This
tornado produced EF-0 damage and had a path length of 1 mile and
an approximate width of 150 yards.

Tornado number 6 began at approximately 423 PM on April 25th... just
south of Itasca in Hill County. This tornado produced EF-0 damage
and had a path length of approximately one half mile and an approximate
width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 7 began at approximately 520 PM on April 25th... near
Avalon in Ellis County. This tornado produced EF-0 damage and had
a path length of approximately one half mile and an approximate width of 100
yards.

Tornado number 8 began at approximately 653 PM on April 25th... 2
miles northeast of Coolidge in Limestone County. This tornado
produced EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately 1.3
miles and an approximate width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 9 began at approximately 659 PM on April 25th... 1
mile west of Wortham in Freestone County. This tornado produced
EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately 1 mile and an
approximate width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 10 began at approximately 725 PM on April 25th... 2 miles
southwest of Fairfield in Freestone County. This tornado produced EF-0
damage and had a path length of approximately 3.5 miles and an
approximate width of 500 yards.

Tornado number 11 began at approximately 735 PM on April 25th... just
east of Oakwood in Leon County. This tornado produced EF-0 damage
and had a path length of approximately 1 mile and an approximate
width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 12 began at approximately 456 PM on April 26th... 4
miles northwest of Mabank in Kaufman County. This tornado produced
EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately 5.3 miles and an
approximate width of 500 yards.

Tornado number 13 began at approximately 545 PM on April 26th... 2
miles southwest of Ben Wheeler in Van Zandt County. This tornado
then tracked northeast for 8 miles before crossing into Smith
County. This tornado produced EF-1 damage in Van Zandt County and
had an approximate width of one-half mile.

Tornado number 14 began at approximately 601 PM on April 26th... near
Mabank in Kaufman County. This tornado produced EF-0 damage and
had a path length of approximately 5.5 miles and an approximate
width of 400 yards.

Tornado number 15 began at approximately 623 PM on April 26th... just
northeast of purtis State Park in Van Zandt County. This tornado
produced EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately 1 mile
and an approximate width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 16 began at approximately 715 PM on April 26th... 2
miles north of Corsicana in Navarro County. This tornado produced
EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately one half mile
and an approximate width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 17 began at approximately 735 PM on April 26th... in
Groesbeck in Limestone County. This tornado produced EF-1 damage
and had a path length of approximately one mile and an approximate
width of 200 yards.

Tornado number 18 began at approximately 748 PM on April 26th... just
south of Lost Prairie in Limestone County. This tornado produced
EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately three quarters
of a mile and an approximate width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 19 began at approximately 828 PM on April 26th... 2
miles north of Lacy Lakeview in McLennan County. This tornado produced
EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately one mile and
an approximate width of 100 yards.

Tornado number 20 began at approximately 853 PM on April 26th... 2
miles north of Mart in McLennan County. This tornado produced EF-0
damage and had a path length of approximately 1.5 miles and an
approximate width of 150 yards.

Tornado number 21 began at approximately 957 PM on April 26th... 3 miles
south southeast of thronton in Limestone County. This tornado produced
EF-0 damage and had a path length of approximately 1 mile and an
approximate width of 100 yards.
jgoins Report This Comment
Date: May 07, 2011 10:53AM

Ho did all those tornadoes do little or no damage?
fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: May 07, 2011 12:40PM

they were all building up to thump Arkansas, Tennessee, etc? totally lost
jgoins Report This Comment
Date: May 08, 2011 10:49AM

I guess Texas was just practice runs for them.