I have lived in Califonia all my life. I just moved here in Oklahoma three months ago. I have never seen a Tornado. I love storms, the thunderstorms here have been amazing. I just want a safe place to get to if needed.
Living in Texas, twisters aren't uncommon. I can't say that I've been outdoors to look when they've touched ground though. I've seen a funnel cloud or two in the sky from inside the car though. No flying cows to speak of yet though.
Yup...saw 10 in one day on May 29, 2004 up in Kansas. That was the craziest storm I have ever seen. The mesocyclone kept rebuilding and it was a cyclic tornado producer. I was in the southern hemisphere in 2005 so the most I've seen this year is just some really good lightning, but hopefully this coming spring will bring about some more opportunities.
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I've never seen a tornado, but I've been inside one before. Everybody screamed! Well, except me, because I wasn't expecting to die.
If you were inside a tornado you would have been picked up and dropped off somewhere or had your limbs and skin ripped off.
and if you were inside one you've definitely seen one.
so run that one by me again?
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Since I was 6 years odl I have been amazed by the clouds, Storms but mostly number 1 was Tornadoes. I had every movie made about them and alot of real life footage tapes. I was always watching Discovery Channek and the Weather Channel for specials on them. I would be so excited. I would dream of chasing them. I carried around a folder in school labeled "My Tornado Folder" with magazine clippings, information and photos of Tornadoes. I always made reports on them but have yet to experience or see one, but my home and trees have been in one. I put my story on this board titles starting with WOW!! I still want to chase tornadoes but for a hobby. I am looking into meteorology maybe in the military but I think I am much more fasinated in photographing them and just experiencing them. I also photograph different clouds especially storm clouds but only with a digital camera Hopefully maybe this summer after I get settled in school and such I will get a better camera.
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I have lived in Califonia all my life. I just moved here in Oklahoma three months ago. I have never seen a Tornado. I love storms, the thunderstorms here have been amazing. I just want a safe place to get to if needed.
Depends on the kind of tornado you're talking about. If there's an F-5 coming towards you, and you know its exact path, and you have a means of getting out of that path, DON'T run into an above ground shelter. Get away from it in a car or four-wheeler (assuming you live in the country) or get into an enclosed COMPLETELY underground structure.
If it's an F-2 or F-3, you are probably safe inside an interior closet. Unless you're in a mobile home. An F-4 might knock down your house ... but may not. It depends on whether or not you're hit head on.
An F-0 or F-1 is easy. They'll probably blow out your windows and they may shatter, so you might want to keep away from the windows. Otherwise though you should be all right.
Hopefully you'll get a look at the tornado. If you do and you notice a bunch of small vortexes circling around the main one, and at high speed, that's a clue that it's F-3 or possibly higher strength. If it doesn't have these vortices, it's probably an F-2 or smaller. If it's kicking up a lot of debris, you might not be able to make out any of these "mini-tornadoes" inside the funnel. (Tornadoes that kick up a lot of debris over a great distance are usually F-4 or higher. At a long distance an F-4 or F-5 will ALWAYS look like a drill going through wood - you know all the tiny wood fragments that get kicked up and out when you drill through wood? That's what it's like.)
If you don't get a look at the tornado, however, just hunker down - go to a storm cellar, basement, or interior closet.
If you think it's dangerous to go outside, DON'T. Don't look for the tornado if you think there's too much lightening around you, or if you hear the sound like freight trains - that means it's really close.
But above all: Remember, there are usually more deaths in the U.S. attributed to lightening than to tornadoes. You have no reason to worry about them whatsoever!
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