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2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« on: June 17, 2014, 10:53:14 PM »
How is everybody doing? I watch the weather reports and need to know.
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2014, 06:12:20 AM »
Hi Sir Charles
I don't think NCOWS has anybody in Pilger NE, but that town was basically destroyed. From what I understand there isn't a building in town that isn't damaged and half the buildings in town no longer exist! The tornados at Burwell started about 10 miles north of my place. We watched one for about a half hour. It touched down briefly near my dad's place, but he didn't have any damage. They stayed out in the country and didn't do much damage. There were a couple more here in Nebraska the last few days, but again they mostly stayed out in rural areas and didn't do much damage.
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2014, 11:08:30 AM »
That is good news!  Weather where I live is very moderate.  We had winds gusting to 20mph and the odd cloudy day, so hearing about your weather patterns gets alarming.  I suppose its what you get used to.
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2014, 12:07:47 PM »
I understand. I moved here from the Pacific North-Wet when I was a seventh grader and remember being terrified of tornados. I remember we had a health class on weather preparedness. On one test a question was something like, " A tornado is about to hit. What do you take to the storm shelter with you?" I answered something like, "food, water, a flash light, batteries, a first aid kit, ect., ect., ect. The teacher said afterward, " That was a trick question. The correct answer was, "Nothing, just get in there." I questioned him about it afterward and he said something like, " Jerry, The stuff you mentioned would be fine if you're going to be stuck out the wild for days. A tornado  is going to be over in about 15 minutes. Just get yourself in the storm shelter. Don't take time to get all that stuff."

Most tornados are pretty isolated events. Granted they're horrible if one lands on top of you, but they don't have to miss you by very much for you to not have much damage.  In 1997 we had 3 tails on the ground not more than 300 feet from my house. They lifted when they hit my tree belt and didn't touch back down until they'd gone about 200 yds. By the grace of God all we had from that was superficial damage even though 1 tail had to have been right over my house.

All of that said, please be praying for the people in Pilger. Most lost everything they owned. Two lost their lives. The damage to one family's business alone was estimated to be over $1,000,000
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2014, 07:42:26 PM »
I wish I'd have been at Camp Pitspiter last Monday, I'd have had some good pictures, was a beautiful classic rope from the pictures and video I saw.    ;)
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2014, 07:21:39 AM »
Yeah I could have seen it a lot better from up there. I watched it from the yard so the hills between blocked a lot of my view. Like you said it was tall and narrow with not much of a funnel at the top. Interestingly, about 20 minutes after that tornado passed a HUGE hole in the clouds developed about where I first saw the first tornado.  Around that hole it appeared that 4 tails were trying to form and the whole hole (pun intended) was slowly rotating.
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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2014, 09:39:49 AM »
Here in eastern Iowa, early Tuesday morning we had some very strong straight line winds, 80-110 mph. I had a walnut
tree go down across a fence, but got there before the cattle got out. there were lots of trees and farm buildings damaged
in the area, but no injuries

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Re: 2014 Tornado alley - RU OK?
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2014, 09:34:59 AM »
Glad your damage was minimal.  Walnut tree might make some nice furniture or gun stocks.
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