• Fatal El Reno tornado has been upgraded to an EF5 and declared the largest in recorded history.
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[quote][img]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2013/06/el-reno.jpg[/img] The tornado that killed 18 people, including 4 storm chasers, west of Oklahoma City Friday was wider than any tornado ever observed or surveyed according to the National Weather Service and leading tornado researcher, [URL="http://som.ou.edu/profiles.php?facID=25"]Howard Bluestein[/URL]. The massive El Reno, Okla. twister reached an unthinkable maximum width of 2.6 miles. “This is the biggest ever,” Bluestein said. In Washington, D.C., a tornado that size would span from from the Lincoln Memorial past the U.S. Capitol Building to 4th St. NE/SE calculated [URL="http://www.wjla.com/blogs/weather/2013/06/el-reno-tornado-upgraded-to-an-ef-5-18988.html"]ABC7 (WJLA) meteorologist Alex Liggitt[/URL]. [URL="http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/killer-el-reno-tornado-was-widest-ever-recorded-nws"]Wrote Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman[/URL]: “The width of the tornado was equivalent to the entire north-south length of New York City’s Central Park.” [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPYVzhSEgAI&feature=youtu.be[/media] [I]Video of the El Reno supercell and 2.6-mile wide EF-5 tornado in Oklahoma on May 31, 2013 uploaded to YouTube by NickNolteWx [/I] The previous widest [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_records"]tornado on record[/URL] was the F4-rated (on the 0-5 scale) Wilber – Hallam, Nebraska twister that touched down on May 22, 2004. It had a maximum width of 2.5 miles. In addition to revising the path width of the El Reno tornado, the National Weather Service upgraded its intensity rating from EF-3 (on the 0-5 [URL="http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ef-scale.html"]Enhanced Fujita scale[/URL]) to EF-5, the highest level. The upgrade arose not due to the funnel’s width, but because of astonishing wind speed information sensed from several mobile doppler radar units driven into the field by research meteorologists in pursuit of the tornado. Bluestein, a University of Oklahoma professor, said two of his graduate students clocked wind speeds as high as 296 mph on their radar while observing the storm, which carved a 16.2-mile path over a period of 40 minutes. [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/06/04/deadly-el-reno-okla-tornado-was-widest-ever-measured-on-earth-had-nearly-300-mph-winds/"]Full Article[/URL][/quote] Hard to even imagine.
Good lord.
Reminds me of the one at the end of Twister. [video=youtube;bhGWWY1nCWw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGWWY1nCWw[/video]
Why are cars driving through it and people casually taking pictures. I do not understand.
Wow, and with the advent of the Internet and social media the whole world* can witness the largest recorded tornado in history. *some countries not included
[QUOTE=Shadow801;40903306]Why are cars driving through it and people casually taking pictures. I do not understand.[/QUOTE] what should they be doing
[QUOTE=Shadow801;40903306]Why are cars driving through it and people casually taking pictures. I do not understand.[/QUOTE] If you're talking about the first minute or so of the video, the cars were driving through the outer rain bands of the storm, not the tornado itself. As for the photographers, they were a safe distance away and would have had plenty of lead time to get out of the way if necessary. As far as storm photography goes, these guys did it pretty much perfect.
This shit intrigues me. and scares me.
[t]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/files/2013/06/el-reno.jpg[/t] Each of those fields goes a mile across, or 1.6 km. a fucking MILE. Imagine if you were under that.
[QUOTE=Shadow801;40903306]Why are cars driving through it and people [B]casually taking pictures[/B]. I do not understand.[/QUOTE] Wow, believe it or not, that's their hobbies! (wow, whoa)
[QUOTE=Shadow801;40903306]Why are cars driving through it and people casually taking pictures. I do not understand.[/QUOTE] Because a photo/video > Life. These days, I'm not surprised. Someone starts a fight or some shootout, everyone seems to rather take out their phone for the moment rather than save their self from the moment.
[QUOTE=mac338;40903274]Reminds me of the one at the end of Twister. [video=youtube;bhGWWY1nCWw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGWWY1nCWw[/video][/QUOTE] So many continuity issues with that one clip, jesus. The truck's smashed to shit in one shot and then suddenly's it's fine in the next shot
Tornadoes will be getting worse and worse as a result of climate change. I definitely believe that the infrastructure damage done to our country will be too costly for our government not to address climate change in a serious way
So wait, they went up the stairs in that clip up to the second floor of the house, and they smash out on the ground window
Sucks as it may but I'm glad it didn't go through downtown
The light scattering is almost surreal.
[QUOTE=Lick;40903552]Tornadoes will be getting worse and worse as a result of climate change. I definitely believe that the infrastructure damage done to our country will be too costly for our government not to address climate change in a serious way[/QUOTE] Actually, the science is still out on that. There's actually a potential that climate change will [B]decrease[/B] the risk of tornadoes, but cause an increase in "generic" severe thunderstorms. Source: [url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130522-tornado-climate-change-oklahoma-science-global-warming/]National Geographic[/url] We just don't know yet.
God imagine if it had actually gone right over El Reno..
[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;40903549]So many continuity issues with that one clip, jesus. The truck's smashed to shit in one shot and then suddenly's it's fine in the next shot[/QUOTE] Yeah, that movie has some of my favorite moments in cinema, but as a whole it has shoddy dialogue and general issues making it... pretty mediocre. It's a mediocre movie with great potential, and I want a proper remake.
[QUOTE=mac338;40903274]Reminds me of the one at the end of Twister. [video=youtube;bhGWWY1nCWw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGWWY1nCWw[/video][/QUOTE] Whyyy are they driving like 20 mph, trying to outrun the tornado? And the stairs could NEVER be placed like that, if the house was rotated 45 degrees.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;40903789]Actually, the science is still out on that. There's actually a potential that climate change will [B]decrease[/B] the risk of tornadoes, but cause an increase in "generic" severe thunderstorms. Source: [url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130522-tornado-climate-change-oklahoma-science-global-warming/]National Geographic[/url] We just don't know yet.[/QUOTE] So we beat climate change?! Great job everyone! Humanity is dominate!
I hate tornadoes so much. Because they can appear at any time anywere kinda like a doomsday on smaller scale.
[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;40903561]So wait, they went up the stairs in that clip up to the second floor of the house, and they smash out on the ground window[/QUOTE] Not to mention they went UP the stairs when the house was sideways...
How long do these things usually last? This seems extremely brutal
It's actually a very productive hobby and one of those types of jobs where someone has to do them. The storm chasers who died were doing their jobs correctly, one of them had already chased a good number of storms with success
The term storm chaser always makes me imagine a dude running after a tornado or some shit while yelling, "GET BACK HERE YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
[QUOTE=IKTM;40905032]The term storm chaser always makes me imagine a dude running after a tornado or some shit while yelling, "GET BACK HERE YOU SON OF A BITCH!"[/QUOTE] All while the tornado is reaching out with two theoretical middle fingers
[QUOTE=killa101;40904492]How long do these things usually last? This seems extremely brutal[/QUOTE] Tornadoes vary immensely in how long they remain on the ground. Some last only a few seconds, some last more than an hour. The longest lasting tornado is known as the "Great Tristate Tornado." It was on the ground for 3 1/2 hours, crossing a distance of 219 miles across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. An [I]average[/I] tornado can usually be expected to stay on the ground for a matter of miles before dissipating. [editline]5th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Zorus;40904690]It's actually a very productive hobby and one of those types of jobs where someone has to do them. The storm chasers who died were doing their jobs correctly, one of them had already chased a good number of storms with success[/QUOTE] All of them were experienced. Tim Samaras alone has given so much to tornado science that his work has undoubtedly saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives through improvements in warning times.
God, it's so large it's just like a bunch of clouds on the ground
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syBM_0fUyqY[/media] After they floored it, that's when it grew to 2.6 miles wide or so
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