I know the skyscrapers have lightning protection, but is there any major damage from wind and/or hail in the downtown area? I’m trying to get a good estimate of what this bow echo did.

Judging by the severe reports (go to my link), I’d say this was the most powerful storm system I’ve seen in my life.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/yesterday.html

Yes, there only seems to be two confirmed tornadoes, but the wind and hail makes up for that.

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I own a 1997 dodge intrepid std 4 dr sedan 6cyl gasoline 3.3 liter 4 speed in fair conditions cd player no rust with 197,242 miles. My car was was in a hail and tornado damage where the hood has a dent and the driver and passanger side have dent and the trunk. I have full coverage insurance and they telling me that my car was total last i love my car and i spent alot of money fixing it and it drives great no problem. So I was trying to get some help from some one that could tell me how much is my car worth so they wont give me less money and if they offer me less what could I do. I am not trying to bew greedy but i do love my car and spent alot of money on it. I would rather get it fix . PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HELP ME

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I own a 1997 dodge intrepid std 4 dr sedan 6cyl gasoline 3.3 liter 4 speed in fair conditions cd player no rust with 197,242 miles. My car was was in a hail and tornado damage where the hood has a dent and the driver and passanger side have dent and the trunk. I have full coverage insurance and they telling me that my car was total last i love my car and i spent alot of money fixing it and it drives great no problem. So I was trying to get some help from some one that could tell me how much is my car worth so they wont give me less money and if they offer me less what could I do. I am not trying to bew greedy but i do love my car and spent alot of money on it. I would rather get it fix . PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HELP ME

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The motorized bicycle roared as I raced down the dirt trail. Around me, the wind howled and flung the trees back and forth. The sky was a strange color. I felt a pulling from behind me, and I turned around. The trailer had lost traction and was sliding through the grass. The back wheel got loose, and was throwing mud everywhere. It almost spun around, but I let go of the throttle and it regained its traction. I saw the old house in the distance, and once I was in the dirt clearing, I turned sharp. The trailer and the moped spun around, and Mike ran off the porch and threw himself into the trailer. I tore away from the house, having to pedal a bit to help the motor along. We bounced along on the trail, and hail started to fall. "Oh crud…" I muttered. I had it at full throttle. I saw the end of the trail where it came through a patch of trees onto the road, and went to it as fast as possible. We rocketed down the street, and the shelter at Bob Mac’s Body Shop came into view. I rolled up to the door, where there was a man in a yellow raincoat, trying to get everyone inside. I let Mike off, then I pushed the moped inside. There was at least a hundred people inside, and it was stuffy and humid, but safe. Suddenly, the hail outside just stopped. The whole room held its breath, waiting. Suddenly there was a sound like a train whistle, and the man in the raincoat shut the door and ran for the back of the room. The power went out, but there were kerosene lamps lit. Loud sounds were heard from outside. There was suddenly a crunching sound, followed by scraping. The scraping sound moved along the wall, and everyone’s eyes followed it. Suddenly it went up and was gone. The door trembled, and bits of concrete fell from the wall. There was a snap, then suddenly something boomed above us. We heard a cracking sound, then a beam fell from the ceiling, right over top of a person in a chair. It fell on top of a stout table, and it stopped just a few inches from the person’s head. Suddenly the wall burst in and a red minivan, crumpled almost beyond recognition, flew into the room and hit several people, who were then sucked out by the tornado. I felt myself being pulled towards the hole, so I grabbed a bit of rope that was tied to a pole next to me. I was lifted into the air, and the only thing keeping me in was my hand. Then it stopped. I fell to the ground. When I stood up, I was shocked. The building was ruined. People were missing. People were injured. People were… Dead. My stomach clenched. I felt faint. I felt my lunch come up and watched it go onto the ground. Then I stood up. Mike was next to me, white as a sheet and covered with dirt. The man opened what was left of the door and left us to go gather our dead. I grabbed my moped, and me and Mike walked out into the flooded street. Trees were strewn everywhere. Part of someone’s bedroom was crumpled up in the parking lot. Cars were flipped and broken, and the destruction was everywhere. Me and Mike walked into Broadway street and looked up and down it. The Braums sing was near the ruins of the Ice House, and the D from Dollar General was on top of a car overturned in the street. "Edgar, I think we’re in trouble. There’s our mailbox."
This is just the beginning… I’m not even sure if I can go anywhere with it…

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ok i recorded a video on my video camera, and i want to put it on my digital camera to put it on youtube

do you know any way to take that video on my video camera, and put it on my digital camera or PC? i have a USB cord for it if that would help.

its a cool video of this storm we had, there was a tornado close by, and penny size hail, trees down, fire trucks every where…its cool!!

but yeah anyway do you?
no my video cam takes video tapes
that usb cord wont fit in my video cam >.> im gonna keep that in mine thou

thanks!

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i want to move but want to know what part of texas is safe for family and has less tornado’s and large hail!

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I live in plano which is northeast Dallas and Its not like I want them but I am just curious. It seems that the nasty stuff stays in Oklahoma and if we get DO anything its like wind and downpours and maybe a tiny bit of hail. So why is this? Anyone know? Thanks.

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i live in north east iowa, and we our county is under a sever thunderstorm watch. the watch is covering almost all of our county. but there is also a tornado watch. and it is barley touching our county to the east. maybe a good 10miles of our county is under a tornado watch. while more then half is covered by a t storm watch. but they are broadcasting it as a full tornado watch. would the threat still be more toward sever things like hail and wind other then a tornado?

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I don’t understand this. Why does this happen a lot?? I live in Centreville, VA in Fairfax, However, the weather is never comparable to the reports given for Fairfax when you are in Centreville. For example, we were issued severe thunderstorms. Then the warnings were canceled stating the storms have broken up. Then I get to Centreville driving home, I drive completely in tornado cell cloud central driving in. I was driving towards and in the activity. Large hail, witnessed a major funnel cloud form, but didn’t touch ground thankfully because it was right over my head! I didn’t have any where to take cover. I call Mom but she said nothing is happening in Fairfax at the moment. Yet the weather says tornado warning for Hay Market.

I checked the weather when I got home at first said bright and sunny. Chance of light rain. ?????

Wierd. I am a student studying meteorology and know what to look for etc.

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I was in my bed sleeping after that painful heartburn I just had, and then the windows shattered,shaked, and literally moved!!!! I got up and sneeked outside the windows, but I didn’t open them, it was like a HURRICANE!!!! Then I saw this funnel in the sky and then hail was falling down, only a small amount. Since I am one of those people who take their video camera with them and sometimes film even though its not like a vacation or something, I had my camera with me and then I recorded the funnel first, then the hail on the ground, and then, came the worst, wicked nightmare!!!!! The tornado itself came coming down slowly from the funnel, I quickly called 911 and they said as usual "911 what’s your emergency?" Then I screamed and said "WHAT DO YOU THINK!!!!!????? DON’T YOU SEE IT!!!?????" then the man said "What is your emergency?" then I said "OK OK DON’T SEE IT, THERE IS A FREAKING TORNADO OUTSIDE, I’M IN SOUTH FLORIDA FT. MYERS AND THE STORM IS FREAKING BAD AND HAIL’S ON THE FREAKING GROUND AND MY WINDOWS ARE SHAKING AND……" he stopped me and said "Ma’am, is anybody hurt? Can you see outside if theres anybody, or even any animal?" I looked outside real carefully and shivered "YES, OH YES, I SEE SOME MOTHER AND HER CHILD RUNNING IN THE SIDEWALK, SHOULD I GO OUTSIDE AND HELP HER?" then he said "IS THERE ANY MAN IN YOUR HOUSE OR OUTSIDE?" then I quickly said " NO, NO, NO NO MALE" then he said in a calmed voice "Ok, I need you to do this for me okay? Get any pan you see in your house, cooking pan, any pan, now put it on your head and get a towel, two of them, preffered warm" then i said "OKAY OKAY, THEN WAIT, AM I GONNA GO OUTSIDE?" then he said "Yes, don’t be scared, now go to your front door, and open it fast and close the door quickly" I had my phone in my hand and said "IM GONNA KEEP THE PHONE IN MY HAND, OKAY?" then he said "Okay" I went out. Good he said to put a pan in my head, because hail actually fell and hit the pan, which could have been my head!!! I got the two towels and wrapped it around the woman and the kid. I brung them at my house and they where okay. Then the mother said "oh my god thank you so much!" the kid didnt say anything because she was scared. And remeber that I left my camera in the window and it was recording everything, even me saving both of them. I had to do something to protect my house and my pets and people. But i couldn’t, good my house was strong. "HELLO? I HEARD SOMETHING" said the man in the phone. I quickly got the phone and said "THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP, THE MOTHER AND KID ARE FINE, I DON"T SEE ANYONE OUTSIDE, THANK YOU SO MUCH" he said "Your welcome, we will be putting a tornado warning now" I sighed and told the woman and kid to join me for lunch because they havn’t eaten anything, they trusted me, such nice people.

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where did you see it as well….. how big is the hail in some areas?

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Please put what state you live in and why?

This question was inspired by this news article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123448309305579825.html.

I live in California and even though our financial systems a mess, I wouldn’t move. I like living here mainly because of the weather. I live inland, in between San Francisco and Sacramento the weather here is at most windy. We get rain and some storms but nothing else. We got hail for the first time in a couple of years. The only thing you have to worry about in California is earthquakes and those don’t happen very often and where I live the last big one in San Franciso I didn’t even feel.

No Hurricanes, No Tornadoes, No snow,No deadly floods that’s my California. If that changed I’d probably move.

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Are you all alright? What was the worst you saw? There were reports of high winds, hail, and at least one tornado in the area. This was a very nasty bow echo that came through the region. Lightning struck a tree right next to my house and I’m very glad nothing was lit on fire.

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Are you all alright? What was the worst you saw? There were reports of high winds, hail, and at least one tornado in the area. This was a very nasty bow echo that came through the region. Lightning struck a tree right next to my house and I’m very glad nothing was lit on fire.

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Earthquakes yes, but Tornado’s? Jesus spoke about these calamities, did he not?.
We had a tornado touch down on the 215 (an hour east of L.A.) a couple years ago. Uprooted trees, caused a few accident’s. Roofs off bulidings, no fatalities.
St Inanimate Phoenix-you are wrong. I was born and raised here in California, we have not always had tornado warnings.
HAIL AND HIGH WINDS HIT
UPDATE from The Press Enterprise:
The worst appears to have passed the Inland region for now; a roof collapses in Corona; tornado touches down in Seal Beach

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What do you think the chances of a tornado is in hail, heavy rain, strong wind, thunder and lightening?
I want to take a picture!

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Think about it. If Solar and Wind would work everywhere in the USA the Private Sector would Fund it as it would be a money maker. Hmmm No Private Sector wants to go near Solar and Wind and that is why our Government HAS to Fund it with our Tax Dollars.

Also, in the USA like Seattle which gets a tremendous amount of Rain which means no sun and no wind, how will it work there?

What about in other States where Hurricanes & Tornadoes are normal, Hail is normal, snow is normal etc……

How much is your Home Owners Insurance going to be to insure Wind Mills/Solar Panels once mother Nature destroys them?

WHERE are all the Cables/Wires going to be STORED FOR WIND MILLS not to mention all the Containers ?

Question:

Shouldn’t WE look into this further before ruining our Country with it and start using our own Natural Resources and Nuclear which is clean?
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ck4829 : reading your answer reminds me of what a POOR JOB the Republicans have to done to expose the propaganda you have written.

Education is Key to understanding and it’s Propaganda and Sound bites that have not allowed the USA to use it’s natural resources in a clean way.

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When I was 11, I went to Orlandos Universal Studios theme park. When there, my dad and I saw the whole thing they did on Twister. Seince then whenever I hear about even a Tornado Watch in my area, I freak out. I can’t eat, I can’t have a straigh coversation, I have to use the restroom alot, and I can’t focus on anything else.
I live in Wisconsin (Yay Badgers….) and on 8-8-09 (the day I’m posing) we’ve been issued a Tornado Watch. I’m absoulutely petrified now, and I’m really hungry but because of the watch I can’t eat. It lasts untill 10 tonight, I know the NTL weather service usualy dropps the watch before its time of expiriation.

I’m not scared of anything else about storms. I love lightning, hail is awesome as long as my cruddy wal-mart bike is in the garage, and I find the sound and sight of rain relaxing (though it usually makes me have to use the restroom after a while.) I can also watch Tornadoes on TV and be so excited by them. It’s just when theres a threat of them being real that scares me.

I hate this fear! It’s immature, almost completly irrational, and overal annoying!!! But the thing is, I don’t know how to get rid of it! I’ve put up with it for the last four years (So I’m 15, gonna be 16 on the 22nd on this month), and I don’t want to be afraid anymore! I need to know what I can do to get rid of my fear! (Preferably something that dosen’t involve me being outside when a tornado hits, that life threatening lol)

ANY advice is good, and please don’t laugh at me, these things truely scare the be-jesus out of me. (And please be nice. I’m not gonna pick your answer if you call me an immature little kid…)
For the record: I have looked at every book in my High-Shcool and Public Library (Not to mention 3 2-page reports on Tornadoes) I know exactly what condions they need to form, I know exactly how, where and why too. I’m just scared that one will destroy my house. And I kinda like my house.

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With this recent outbreak of storms, producing strong winds, lighting and tornados coming into the Eastern US and South.

It got me thinking about my pets and their safety especially when we aren’t home.

In our state it seems our worst storms come in Fall, Winter, and Early Spring. That is when we get the most tornadoes (the most dangerous ones seem to hit in the Winter and usually at night), lighting, flooding, and hail.

So when our pets are going to be home alone and they are predicting bad storms what precautions should we take.

And what precautions should we take in general to keep our family (including our pets) safe no matter if we are here for the storm or not?

For example: We live in a second story apartment. So we have no basement, no storm room. The safest room in our apartment is our bathroom.

During the fall/winter season especially if they are calling for strong storms we crate our dogs and have them in our safe area, regardless if anything is going on at the time we leave.

We never leave their crates near a window, especially the all metal ones due to severe lighting, windows breaking due to wind (those metal crates like my larger dog uses don’t offer much protection. The pet taxis (like my smaller dog uses )offer a bit more though.

We also always make sure that in the case of a storm disaster we always have a plan. Whoever is closest if we aren’t home will try to get to the dogs, but we also have a friend or relative on standby that can always get to them quicker. We have a meeting point set up if our place has been hit, hopefully we retriever our dogs or we are with our dogs and we take them, load them up and head to the meeting point to meet the rest of the family.

What is your Storm Safety Advice and disaster plan?

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I looked outside and it isn’t even raining. In fact, it is perfectly still. It is still 73 degrees. They say the storm is moving 50 MPH has quarter size hail. Maybe I should move downstairs. I think I’ll wait. We live in tornado alley. Ok. I’m taking the computer downstairs, it’s going off again………bye, bye!!!

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I took my nephew to the park and we had a lovely time taking pictures. It was beautiful outside today.These pictures were taken at around 7:00 pm but just 12 hours earlier we were under a tornado warning and had some damage to our town, It was the complete opposite weather with clouds, rain, wind, and hail. Anyway I thought I would share that little bit of info. So what do you think of the portraits I would love any feedback. Thank You!

I took these with my brothers camera it was a canon and 7.2 mega pixels I can’t remember the exact module. My camera I normally use is a fujifilm finepix S2000HD so all of my other pics are taken with that one.

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where do u go say if a tornado comes with little or no warning? there are no ditches or anything around here….do we go in the bathtub, what, what are you to do if your in a mobile home and a violent storm or even tornado comes with little or no warning?
thank you all for your answers, i was wondering this cuz i was in my mobile home all by myself, bf at work, no car and out of nowhere came this big storm, with hail and wind, and i had NOWHERE to go! i did get in bathtub…very scary, very scary i want to move now

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Its lightning and storming. I was looking out my window and i saw black clouds surrounding an area of white clouds and the white clouds were rolling. My mom said that thats a sign of a tornado. im kinda freaked out. Its gonna hail and storm tonight. I would like to kno any information on any kind of hail, lightning, storms, or tornados going on tonight and tomorrow morning. Thanks!
I’m in Charlotte, NC.

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i’m just north of l.a., ca… it started getting pretty windy outside so i looked up the weather and there was a severe weather alert, this is what it says…

..THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE LOS ANGELES BASIN
IS EXPECTED TO RECEIVE MOST OF ITS RAINFALL FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO
FRIDAY NIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF
HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL. DUE TO THE COLD AND UNSTABLE NATURE OF
THIS STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM…CONDITIONS WILL ALSO
BE FAVORABLE FOR POSSIBLE WATERSPOUT AND FUNNEL CLOUD ACTIVITY.

oops sorry for the CAPS it just copied it that way… but seriously though, waterspouts and funnel clouds? i’m from ohio so we have tornadoes pretty regularly… i’ve never heard of one out here, and i’ve talked to lots of people out here about tornadoes. i know they can happen anywhere… but this sounds like an exaggeration? is it going to be that bad?

ps – any time it rains here people think it’s a "storm" so…

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I have a few questions, even if you don’t answer all of them, some would be great!! Thanks!!
1. Can twisters just end suddenly, like have the weather be really stormy and windy, then end up having a real nice, sunny day?
2. Can an intense twister form within fifteen minutes?
3. In one area, anywhere, can tornadoes form one after another (for many tornadoes)?
4. Have measurements ever been taken from inside the tunnel of a tornado?
5. What is the warning time before a tornado hits nowadays?
6. Can some one tell the way the tornado is going to go by the way it meets the sky/atmosphere?
7. What are some weather conditions associated with tornadoes (hail, winds, lightning? etc.)?
8. Can a tornado split in two?
9. In the movie Twister, two people ride in this truck in the path of a tornado, but they can’t see it until the tornado comes over a hill. Is that possible?
10. And I know this is kind of silly, but tornadoes and twisters are the same thing, right? Just want to be sure!
Thanks!!

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