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Left:April 26, 1884, Garnet, Kansas, The first known tornado photograph. Photographer A.A. Adams. Right: August 28, 1884, near Forestburg, South Dakota, The second tornado photograph. Photographer F. N. Robinson.

SIX DANGEROUS TORNADO MYTHS

MYTH # 1 - TORNADOES CANNOT FORM IN OR CROSS

MOUNTAINS.

FALSE

TELL THAT TO SCOTT NEWTON WHO TOOK THE PHOTOGRAPH AT THE LINK BELOW – THE HIGHEST TORNADO KNOWN AT NEARLY 12,000 FT. IN THE SIERRA NEVADA.

http://tornado.sfsu.edu/RockwellPassTornado/

MYTH # 2 - CITIES ARE PROTECTED FROM TORNADOES BECAUSE THE BUILDINGS DISRUPT WIND FLOW?

FALSE

A LOOK AT THESE WILL CONVINCE YOU.

OMAHA – 1913

http://www.livgenmi.com/1913netornado~imagedirectory.htm

CINCINNATI 1915

http://www.shorstmeyer.com/tornadoes/1915/1915.html

NASHVILLE, 1998

http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9804/16/nashville.tornado.4/#2

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/misc/980416.html

OKLAHOMA CITY – 1999

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/OKCDAMAGEPATH-lg.html

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/may99plainstornadoes-photos.html

MIAMI, FLORIDA – 1997

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/newpage/tornpix.html

FORT WORTH – 2000

http://www.dallassky.com/fwtornado.htm

http://www.kenkuhl.com/tornado/

SAALT LAKE CITY - 1999

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/SLCtornado.html

MYTH # 3 - OPENING WINDOWS WILL PROTECT MY HOUSE FROM THE DAMAGING PRESSURE DROP THAT CAN CAUSE THE HOUSE TO EXPLODE

FALSE

IT’S THE WIND (AND THE DEBRIS HURLED BY THE WIND) NOT THE PRESSURE DROP BECAUSE THE WINDS GET THERE FIRST – SO….DO NOT WASTE TIME OPENING YOUR WINDOWS.

READ ABOUT THE GREATEST PRESSURE DROP MEASURED INSIDE A TORNADO FROM THE “GUINNESS WORLD RECORD” PEOPLE.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=58870

BY THE WAY THE RECORD PRESSURE DROP OF 100 MILLIBARS (mb) THAT STORM CHASERS MEASURED MEANS AN EXTRA PRESSURE OF 1.45 psi (NOTE: 1 psi = 68.97 mb).

THAT IS AN ADDITIONAL PRESSURE OF 209 POUNDS PER SQUARE FOOT OR FOR A WALL 15 FT. TALL AND 20 FEET LONG A TOTAL PRESSURE OF 62,700 POUNDS – PROBABLY ENOUGH TO CAUSE QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE.

MYTH # 4 - THE SAFEST SPOT IN MY HOUSE IS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE BASEMENT

FALSE

IT DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION. THE SOUTHWEST CORNER COULD BE THE SAFEST BUT IT COULD ALSO RECEIVE THE MOST DEBRIS. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT SIDE OF YOU HOME THE TORBNADO GOES. IF IT IS A MULTIPLE FUNNEL TORNADO THE DEBRIS COULD BLOW IN ANY DIRECTION.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE SPENCER, SD TORNADO DAMAGE AND SEE WHY YOU SHOULD GET TO A SAFE SPOT ASAP.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/spencer/spendmg.htm

PLAN AHEAD – GET TO THE SAFE SPOT YOU DECIDE UPON – NOT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF YOUR BASEMENT.

GO TO THIS SITE FOR TIPS ON TORNADO SAFETY.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html

FOR STORM CHASERS, READ THIS ON SAFETY ISSUES:

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Chasing2.html

MYTH # 5 - I ONLY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT TORNADOES DURING TORNADO SEASON.

FALSE

TORNADOES HAVE OCCURRED IN ALL MONTHS OF THE YEAR IN Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

CHECK OUT THIS GREAT noaa WEBSITE.

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/

MYTH # 6 - ALONG AN EXPRESSWAY SAFE SHELTER CAN BE FOUND UNDER AN OVERPASS.

FALSE

IN A DIRECT HIT WIND SPEEDS CAN BE EVEN HIGHER THERE BECAUSE OF THE VENTURI EFFECT AND

MOST TORNADO DEATHS ARE CAUSED BY FLYING DEBRIS NEAR GROUND LEVEL UP UNDER THE OVERPASS YOU MAY BE MORE EXPOSED TO DEBRIS.

CHUCK DOSWELL A HIGHLY RESPECTED AND VOCAL METEOROLOGIST WRITES ON THIS PRACTICE HERE:

http://webserv.chatsystems.com/~doswell/OKC_may3rd/OKC_thoughts2.html

AND DON’T MISS THIS PRESENTATION:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/papers/overpass/slide01.html

TORNADOES AND SEVERE STORMS

AROUND THE WORLD

THE FIRST TORNADO FORECAST

http://www.siam.org/siamnews/06-98/tornado.htm

FUN STUFF

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/index.html

http://www.tornadoproject.com/index.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tornado/tornado.html

http://www.wind.ttu.edu/Shelters/storm_shelters.htm

TORNADO FORMATION

http://www.shorstmeyer.com/tornadoes/bubble1.html

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/soo/docu/supercell.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado#Tornado_formation

HOOK ECHO

http://chill.colostate.edu/tornado_1953/

SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS

http://www.extremewinds.com/learn.html

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/Supercell.html

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/svr/type/spr/home.rxml

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/teams/swat/Cases/990503/StormA.html

STRUCTURE OF SUPER CELLS

http://www.theweatherprediction.com/severe/structure/

http://www.chaseday.com/identity-2.htm

STORM SPOTTER’S GUIDE

http://spotterguides.us/

GENERAL INFO

http://www.weather-wise.org/anmviewer.asp?a=50&z=1

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/worldfscale.html#world

http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/tornadoes/

http://www.noaa.gov/tornadoes.html

EUROPE – GENERAL

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=126&article=16711&archive=true

http://www.tordach.org/pdf/ecss02s.pdf

http://www.essl.org/pdf/ESSL_PilotStudy.pdf

AUSTRALIA

http://www.bom.gov.au/info/thunder/index.shtml

http://australiasevereweather.com/

http://australiasevereweather.com/links/ozhome.htm

http://www.nswstorms.com/

http://www.bsch.au.com/

http://www.downunderchase.com/

http://www.users.bigpond.com/martypouwelse/

http://www.stormchasers.au.com/

http://www.stormfreak.net/

http://www.weatherchase.net/

http://www.saweather.net/

http://www.electricskies.com.au/

http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/asc/asc_nov_2003.pdf

ARGENTINA

http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/argentina.htm

AUSTRIA

http://www.tordach.org/at/Tornado_climatology_of_Austria.html

http://www.tordach.org/at/index_e.html

BANGLADESH

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1679336,00.html

http://bangladeshtornadoes.org/

BRAZIL

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Tornadoes+strike+Brazil&id=66352

CANADA

http://www.utoronto.ca/env/nh/pt2ch2-2-2.htm

http://www.ontariostorms.com/

CHINA

http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/china.htm

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Apr/126552.htm

CYPRUS

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/feature/ne280103.htm

CZECH REPUBLIC

http://www.chmi.cz/torn/publications/AtmRes-ECSS2002_Setvak-Salek-Munzar.pdf

http://www.chmi.cz/torn/

GERMANY

http://wetterchronik.de/english/tornadogeruecht.htm

http://www.tordach.org/pdf/etss_1p.pdf

http://www.eurotornado.ou.edu/Abstracts/Dotzek1.PDF

http://www.tordach.org/de/

http://www.chasebase.de/

http://www.grenzwetter.de/

ITALY

http://www.tornadoit.org/

NETHERLANDS

http://www.stormchasing.nl/

http://www.weatherpictures.nl/

http://www.dutchweather.nl/

http://www.dandantheweatherman.com/Bereklauw/dutchtns.htm

NEW ZEALAND

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1674136,00.html

SOUTH AFRICA

http://www.nwas.org/ej/heidelberg/

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,6119,2-7-1442_1656962,00.html

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,6119,2-7-1442_1651419,00.html

SWEDEN

http://www.svemet.org/tornado.html

SWITZERLAND

http://www.tordach.org/ch/

UNITED KINGDOM

http://www.torro.org.uk/research/whirlextreme.htm

http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3059663.stm

USA

LIST OF TORNADO OUTBREAKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks

THE SUPER OUTBREAK OF 1974

http://www.april31974.com/

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/storms/index.html

CURRENT SEVERE WEATHER INFO

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

US TORNADO AND SEVERE STORM HAZARDS

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/

TORNADO FAQS FROM STORM PREDICTION CENTER

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/

HISTORICAL US TORNADO DATA

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/archive/tornadoes/index.html

CLIMATOLOGY – TECHNICAL ARTICLE

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/concannon/

CINCINNATI AREA

http://www.shorstmeyer.com/tornadoes/index.html

1974 XENIA

http://www.xeniatornado.com/

http://kitty.net.tripod.com/321/id10.html

1974 SAYLER PARK

http://www.shorstmeyer.com/tornadoes/1974.html

INDIANA

http://www.disastercenter.com/indiana/tornado.html

http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/intorn.htm

KENTUCKY

http://www.disastercenter.com/kentucky/tornado.html

http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/kytorn.htm

OHIO

http://www.disastercenter.com/ohio/tornado.html

http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/ohtorn.htm

WISCONSIN

http://www.wx-fx.com/

VIETNAM

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1679651,00.html

LIGHTNING

http://www.lightningphotography.com/

http://www.users.bigpond.com/beatartone/

http://www.electricskies.com.au/

http://www.atwillett.com/

STORM PHOTOGRAPHY – GENERAL

http://www.weather-photography.com/index.php

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/torscans.htm

http://webserv.chatsystems.com/~doswell/Outdoor_Images/Photo_tips.html

http://www.tahoetwisters.com/

http://www.asktheweatherman.com/

THE FUJITA SCALE & Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita

http://www.msu.edu/~fujita/tornado/ttfujita/biography.html

http://www.stormtrack.org/library/people/fujita.htm

http://www.shorstmeyer.com/tornadoes/fpp.html

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/f-scale.html

DOPPLER RADAR

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/doppler.htm

http://www.pirateisle.com/gatech2/sciviz/history.html

NWS DOPPLER SITES

http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/national.html

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DOPPLER AND RADAR TUTORIALS

http://www.skywarn.ampr.org/radartut.htm#contents

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/rs/rad/home.rxml

TORNADO VORTEX GENERATOR

CINCINNATI POST ARTICLE ABOUT MATT BLOEMER, STEVE HORSTMEYER’S MORNING PRODUCER WHO BUILT THE TORNADO VORTEX GENERATOR DEMONSTRATED ON LOCAL 12.

http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050513/NEWS02/505130368/1014

http://www.asktheweatherman.com/TorGen.htm

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS98/Poster.html