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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Monster supercell tornado rips through Midwest killing two and flattening Oklahoma town bringing hail the size of tennis balls and creating a 19,000ft high 'debris ball': 20,000 are still without power
2023-04-20
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] And so it begins.
  • A tornado has left a trail of destruction across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing at least two people, levelling homes and leaving tens of thousands without power

  • Several other states are under severe weather watches as the twister system continues to leave a trail of destruction across the Midwest

  • Authorities are urging residents to seek shelter, as the storm comes after multiple tornadoes have hammered the Midwest in recent weeks
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Posted by:Skidmark

#7  More on the way tonight.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-04-20 23:38  

#6  I've been in two tornados, one in Enid, Oklahoma in 1955 and one in Headland, Alabama, where stuff was destroyed all but our houses were spared. I will never forget the sound or the devistation.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-04-20 14:28  

#5  For those trying to get a feel for such things: watch the flags.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-04-20 11:58  

#4  Nice, short video of Andover tornado.

Not so big, but still scary.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-04-20 11:48  

#3  'Tis the season.

We had an area Tornado Warning a couple months back. Nothing really, don't even think anything touched the ground. Scared the bejeebus out of the new residents. Went over procedure with them, what to have in their emergency kit, how to track storms, and that it can get a bit hairier. I did not tell them what that was, was just a bit of wind and that sometimes -this- happens.

They were familiar with last year's locally famous tornado in Andover, KS. But that was a nice, pretty, ready to audition in the movie Twister tornado. They were not ready for sirens after dark.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-04-20 11:19  

#2  Legendary storm chaser Reed Timmer was all over this storm-watch the video; it's a bit scary.
Posted by: HeavyG   2023-04-20 10:44  

#1  'Tis the season!

Seasonal global warming/cooling/climate change!
Posted by: Bobby   2023-04-20 10:35  

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