Moore Tornado, NOW, live chaser footage

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here is the explanation of the vehicle, I'm going to go watch this IMAX movie this weekend. Hadnt heard of it til now.

 
This is basically what I was driving through yesterday except I managed to dodge the winds by listening to the radio alerts.

 
Going to be a rough 3 days for the Plains and Midwest - tornadoes pretty much guaranteed. Let's hope populated areas manage to "dodge" them :(

I'll try and get some pics if anything interesting makes it here to the upper midwest. I wonder if my Toyota Camry could survive inside a tornado like the above interceptor vehicle :eek:
 
Curio said:
Going to be a rough 3 days for the Plains and Midwest - tornadoes pretty much guaranteed. Let's hope populated areas manage to "dodge" them :(

I'll try and get some pics if anything interesting makes it here to the upper midwest. I wonder if my Toyota Camry could survive inside a tornado like the above interceptor vehicle :eek:
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It's looking like central and western OK will be the likely targets today, but with supercells and tornados possible right through tornado alley today.

Huge CAPE values for approximately midnight tonight GMT:

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And a very strongly sheared environment:

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And, the tornado outlook for today:

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If there is any action tonight I shall try and get some good radar reflectivity and velocity screens.
 
Someone commented on a tornado video i was watching saying

"geo-engineering could have prevented this. Our Govt. allowed this to happen. I am so sorry that this happen. We are a great country and do not deserve this."

So what i make of geoengineering is that is an effort to reduce certain unwanted elements from our atmosphere and various other methods to offset global warming. To prevent tornadoes in the country that has the most of them in the world annually you would need to knock down parts of the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains in addition to lowering the temperature of the water in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no way that America has capacity to undertake such a monumental exercise. There is no real prevention of tornados it would be far better to invest that into early warning technology and adequate safety shelters, I'm no scientist but i find it astonishing that someone can think their government could have prevented this force of nature.

Would my hypothesis be somewhat correct, or is there some magical way to stop tornadoes?
 
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ShaolinDreams said:
Someone commented on a tornado video i was watching saying

"geo-engineering could have prevented this. Our Govt. allowed this to happen. I am so sorry that this happen. We are a great country and do not deserve this."

So what i make of geoengineering is that is an effort to reduce certain unwanted elements from our atmosphere and various other methods to offset global warming. To prevent tornadoes in the country that has the most of them in the world annually you would need to knock down parts of the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains in addition to lowering the temperature of the water in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no way that America has capacity to undertake such a monumental exercise. There is no real prevention of tornados it would be far better to invest that into early warning technology and adequate safety shelters, I'm no scientist but i find it astonishing that someone can think their government could have prevented this force of nature.

Would my hypothesis be somewhat correct, or is there some magical way to stop tornadoes?
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maybe HAARP??
 
Got hit by a nice storm last night. A tornado touched down about 30 miles away - but it was "only" an F0....blew some camper vans over and knocked power lines down. Another strong storm hitting right now and we're under tornado watch until 7pm. Probably extend it into tomorrow as well - more strong storms on the way. Then on Saturday it's supposed to cool down. Thank god - can't stand this humidity!
 
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Another set of isolated supercells, with one heading right towards OKC Metro. There is strong tornado potential with these storms, with small hooks beginning to develop. The one currently over Anadarko has a VERY strong potential to go right through Moore/Norman with hook echo developing already.

Hard to define the rotation at the moment on the radar but the hooks are spinning up.

The one near Guthrie has now been tornado warned.
 
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This one near Anadarko is looking seriously dangerous. Rotation visible on the base velocity radar image - note the tight green and red near the hook echo. This is a VERY dangerous situation for OKC right now.
 
Was just reading about the 1970 Lubbock F5 tornado on wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock_Tornado

"Damage was especially severe in the industrial areas of north Lubbock. At a grain storage complex, thick steel covers were peeled back from the tops of silos like soup cans. A 41-foot long metal fertilizer tank, weighing 26,000 pounds, was thrown nearly a mile through the air. Large oil tanks in this area were hurled up to 300 yards away, and a railroad car was rolled for 50 yards.[3]

It also visibly twisted a 270ft tall building :eek:

Staggering power.
 
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Storm track latest data is showing the storm motion just south of Norman (see the think white line) and should pass near Noble and Slaughterville.
 
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