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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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?
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!!!
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!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karensphotography/sets/72157617798940743/show/
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.
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
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.
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…
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!! 
My ten year old son just loves loves loves reading about different types of weather and watching the weather reports on tv, but he has a great fear of severe thunderstorms, and sometimes just rain alone.
He is afraid there will one day be a tornado that will kill us. We do not live in an area prone to tornadoes, but we sometimes get hail, which leads him to believe that one could happen at any time. He has gotten professional help, but nothing cures it.
Before a tornado strikes, the clouds turn a green color. The other month, there was a really bad storm at my house and it started to hail. I looked at the clouds and they were a sick green color. A few minutes later, a tornado hit.
So, why does the sky turn green before a tornado?
tornado hit, lightening strike, hail attack(sort of like stoning), multiple car wrecks, plane crash, bombarded by rabid grannies, had issues with the paparazzi, caused anyone to cry, used vegitables for sex and lived, bad bathroom experiences, talked to either your shadow or others, gone insane and liked it. eaten soup with a fork and told it was the best ever, run over by a train and both parts of you went on to party that night, car crash with safety bags pounding you to a pulp, beaten up a pit bulls, went surfing in a hurricane, sky diving aerial attacks, had sex with an animal and have video tape, gone to jail to be more like OTIS, acted out and then were crushed by the audience, cheated on your partner and then found out he or she did too, mauled by tigers, trampled by elephants, attacked by thousands of gnats, stung by bees and enjoyed the pain, been sued by the IRS and laughed it off, ate bad food and could not wait for seconds, left a tip more than 30%, screamed at people dead
for exambel what state has the worth weather cold snowy winter and verry stormy summer like tornado,hail rain like verry active weather?
i think in is michigan but what is your though thunk you.
i think it is michigan blizzerd snowy winter thunk you.
i think it is michigan blizzerd snowy winter thunk you.
I currently live in Michigan but I am terrified of tornados. I’ve been looking at houses in TX but nobody has basements, where do you go when there is a tornado?! How many tornadoes do you usually get a year? Should I get a house with a garage, hail and unforgiving sun are usually bad for the body and paint? Are there a lot of greens, like trees, grass and such? I’ve always pictured the TX area to be like a desert with sand and tumbleweed.
I need protective gear which will keep my camcorder safe in a category 5 hurricane and an F5 tornado. I also want to be able to have the LCD screen open while I film, and I don’t want the protective gear to cover the lens because I want the best and clearest footage I can get. My camcorder is a Sony and the model number is DCR-TRV 830. Do you need the model number? I live in Manatee county. Any stores close by? How about online?
Also protection for possible hail from tornadoes.
Also protection for possible hail from tornadoes.
huge severe thunderstorms that produce large hail and knock down trees, that are capable of producing tornadoes?
I have been researching tornadoes online and I know the typical signs (funnel cloud, tornado warning, hail, strong wind gusts, flashes of lights, sounds of trains) but I was wondering what the sky would look like. I tried looking for pictures of the sky before a tornado or developing tornados, but haven’t found anything (just tornados on the ground, or funnel clouds). I have a very big interest in weather, tornados especially, and any information would be very appreciated! Thanks so much! Also, are there any chasers out there or weather buffs that would be willing to exchange emails and share their knowledge?
Its windy, dark, possible hail, hopefully not but maybe tornadoes
There is an 80% probability of having 2 or more tornadoes with this watch, and a 40% prob. of one or more strong tornadoes.
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY ACROSS WRN MS WITH APPROACH OF STRONG UPPER TROUGH. DEEPENING SURFACE LOW SERN AR WILL TRACK NEWD INTO NRN MS WITH ENHANCEMENT OF LOW LEVEL SHEAR IN WARM SECTOR ACROSS MUCH OF MS. SUPERCELLS INCLUDING TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BECOME LIKELY BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND DEVELOP EWD ACROSS WATCH AREA.
*Listen to a NOAA Weather Radio or local radio or television stations for updated information.
* Be alert to changing weather conditions. Tornadoes accompany severe thunderstorms, and weather conditions can change rapidly. Large hail, blowing debris, or the sound of an approaching tornado may alert you. Many people say approaching tornadoes sound like a freight train.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0092.html
http://www.tornadochaser.net/safety.html
It do not think that the threat for tornadoes will reach as far north as Nashville. Some of these storms should move through overnight and the biggest threat will be strong winds in Nashville.
I live in Omaha and we’ve had a really bad storm season so far. I’m so afraid I’ll be in labor while there is a bad one. Anyone else having this same fear?
We’ve had several tornadoes so far this summer and hurricane force winds, hail, etc. We had one tornado warning that lasted for 3 hours!! I thought I was going to pass out because it was so hot in teh storm shelter and it was flooding so I couldn’t sit. I got really dehydrated too.
There is something wrong with the AP photo of the tornado supposedly hitting Iowa on Yahoo! news from Midwest flooding. I got this same photo from friends after the tornado hit Chapman, Kansas. On the left side of the tornado is a square notch missing out of the tornado. Tornadoes don't have missing square pieces. Also there is no rain or hail and the streets aren't wet. Can you see what I see? Midwest Flooding – Yahoo! News Photoshttp://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Midwest-Flooding-huge-tornado-funnel-cloud-touches-down-Orchard-Iowa-Tuesday-June/ss/events/us/050208midweststorms/im:/080619/480/2c6dee9db6f3482eb6adee79796b9b8b/
