Oklahoma Tornado

[BloodOmen]

Biggest in history apparently

time lapse of it

 

[TdC]

eep that's gonna leave a mark

 

[DaGaffer]

I've never understood why anyone lives in Oklahoma. For 99% of time it is the most boring place on Earth (seriously), and then the other 1% your house gets thrown all over the landscape.

 

[Lamp]

I heard on the radio it was 2 miles wide. That's a fecking big tornado if true. Gotta be an F5, right?

 

[BloodOmen]

I heard on the radio it was 2 miles wide. That's a fecking big tornado if true. Gotta be an F5, right?

It will be an F5+ if its the biggest in history, not sure what F5's normally are size wise they may even have to give it a new class? and aye it was 2 miles wide at its biggest they say.

 

[Zarjazz]

They changed the scale a few years ago, it'll be rated a EF5.

 

[Gwadien]

So it's the biggest in history, and luck has it that it hits a city? - shii'

 

[DaGaffer]

That's a weird coincidence, Moore, the suburb of Oklahoma that got hit, was one of the places I had to identify on that Google Map game.

 

[fettoken]

That's a fecking doomsday cloud. You cannot imagine the terror of such a thing passing over your head.

 

[caLLous]

Be somewhere else.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

http://blogs.denverpost.com/capture..._campaign=Feed:+dp-blogs+(Denver+Post:+Blogs)

#3 Fuuuuuck... looks like the start of Sim City 4 building process.

 

[rynnor]

That's a weird coincidence, Moore, the suburb of Oklahoma that got hit, was one of the places I had to identify on that Google Map game.

Moore holds the record for fastest recorded wind on the planet from the hurricane that hit it 14 years ago.

It doesn't seem a sensible place to live in flimsy wooden houses and caravans?

 

[Raven]

Cheaper to rebuild than brick.

 

[Zarjazz]

That's a scary before & after.

 

[BloodOmen]

christ, just completely leveled.

 

[Shagrat]

jesus, that is scary. it looks like its just been ground to dust.

 

[Aada]

I've never understood why anyone lives in Oklahoma. For 99% of time it is the most boring place on Earth (seriously), and then the other 1% your house gets thrown all over the landscape.

Do you have the money to just up and leave and move to another part of country?

 

[caLLous]

He lives in Ireland, Aada. Different country.

 

[Raven]

http://news.sky.com/story/1093711/tornado-survivor-finds-dog-during-tv-interview

 

[DaGaffer]

Do you have the money to just up and leave and move to another part of country?

I've "up and left" lots of places. I fail to see your point.

 

[rynnor]

Moore has been hit by 5 hurricanes in the past 15 years...

I would take the insurance money and move tbh.

 

[BloodOmen]

Oof...

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Oklahoma. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

Meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements to calculate the energy released during the storm's life span of almost an hour. Their estimates ranged from 8 times to more than 600 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
Scientists know the key ingredients that go into a devastating tornado. But they are struggling to figure out why they develop in some big storms and not others. They also are still trying to determine what effects, if any, global warming has on tornadoes."

So basically that tornado was like a mobile atom bomb.

 

[rynnor]

Fairly meaningless comparison though since the whole point of a bomb is to release all its energy at once (plus Hiroshima was a piddly bomb but very dirty).

If we assume a nuke releases all its energy in one second whereas the tornado would have been pretty constant over the hour it was touched down that means peak energy per second would be at most 1/6th of that of Hiroshima at the highest end of the estimates.

 

[caLLous]

 

[BloodOmen]

Nice to see he has a sense of humor after that atleast