Big Storm
 

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature6/multimedia.html



It’s pretty long, but cool.

That was awesome!

Tornado Alley may have alot of tornadoes, but for sheer power, come to Alabama. IIRC, Alabama has had more F5 tornadoes than any other state. One came through just north of where I live a few years ago (through a heavily wooded area, luckily) and not only removed all the trees but took the grass up off the ground. Nothing left but dirt. Unfortunately everyone in the path of it was killed. Even people in their basements.

Mike

According to this site, there have only been 4 F5 tornadoes hit Alabama since 1900.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-F5-tornadoes

11 in KS, which I thought we had one in the last 5 years, but it may of only been an F4 ------ Just looked it up, it was an F4 that hit Wichita in May of 99.


9 in OK.

8 in TX.


Without doing some more counting to see if any other state has had more, I'd say that KS would hold the record for F5's.



http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornalley.html

Fast Facts:

Kansas - Highest number of F5 tornadoes since 1880

Iowa - Greatest number of F5's per square mile

Alabama - Highest percentage of tornadoes rated as of significant intensity

Kentucky - Highest percentage of all tornadoes ranked as violent (F4 or F5)

btw: Mr. BVD, it's Biermeister :)

I was in a tornado once. Will never, ever, ever, forget it. Mother Nature large and in charge.

lived through my share. never a dull moment. the scariest part was going to sleep on the eve of a tornado warning and not knowing...

Yeah, the site I had looked at only listed them since 1950 (still showed 5 for Alabama since 1950 and I had mentally included the Lawrence Co, TN one since it was about 20 miles from my house).

The following site still lists Alabama with having as many F5s as any other state:

http://www.spc.ncep.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/f5torns.html

The disconcerting thing to me is that they are all clustered around north Alabama (where I am). :>(

Mike

Yeah, it looked like you want to steer clear of Birmingham, as the maps I looked at showed that it was hit twice.

Last year we still lived in Harper Kansas, we had on a single night, 8 tornadoes touch down in the county, all within a couple of miles from home.

http://stormgasm.com/storm%20store/videos/2004may12.htm

Watch the 'sample video'. At the 1:20 mark on the video, that particular tornado was maybe 1/4-3/8's of a mile south of where we were. We actually had roof damage, and tree damage at the house.


Roughly 1.5 week later we had this:

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0504/150171.html

Roughly 16 tornadoes touch down from that series of storms, and probably 6 or so in Harper county again.

One of those actually ran the same path as the video'd tornado above. The first tornado did damage to the school and destroyed several houses, the second tornado didn't really have anything left to eat.

More info on the May 12 'Outbreak'.

http://www.tornadochaser.net/harper.html

The map is a little deceiving, as it doesn't have a mile ledger on it. Harper and Anthony are only 7miles apart.


It was a fun month none-the-less..

Corrected, I used the spelling my old PCA region did on a shirt for me before :rolleyes:

Thanks for the tiphttp://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/pint1.gif

kein Problem. now go back and give each one of those PCA eggheads a big fat noogie for misleading you. (the nerve...) :)