• Tornado rakes Southern Indiana; Marysville, town of 1,900, 'completely gone' (Pictures inside)
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Shit in Indianapolis all we got was hailstones lol.
Knoxville Tennessee got only severe thunderstorms. Good thing no tornadoes.
[img]https://p.twimg.com/AnBHrXCCQAA8CF8.jpg[/img] Two hailstones I recovered from my driveway, with a US Quarter between them for size. No tornadoes here, but I did have to move my truck lest I lose the windshield.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34970891]Have any idea of what the brown might indicate?[/QUOTE] could it possibly mean "nothing serious"?
I wonder whether Tornadoes are exclusively found in North America cause We never heard of any tornadoes in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.
[QUOTE=BCell;34983372]I wonder whether Tornadoes are exclusively found in North America cause We never heard of any tornadoes in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.[/QUOTE] Antarctica doesn't have the climate for tornadoes...Europe gets lots of them, as does Asia and South America.
[QUOTE=BCell;34983372]I wonder whether Tornadoes are exclusively found in North America cause We never heard of any tornadoes in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.[/QUOTE] Nah, but America has a lot of flat land which tornadoes adore.
[QUOTE=BCell;34983372]I wonder whether Tornadoes are exclusively found in North America cause We never heard of any tornadoes in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.[/QUOTE] Europe gets them every now and again. England had a couple a few years back. Ireland had one in like 1054, two of them killed a bunch of Duke Otto's soldiers in 1144 that were encamped in the Bohemian countryside, Prague Castle was largely demolished by one in 1255 and had to be rebuilt in many places, Malta had one that destroyed a bunch of ships in the port of Valetta and killed over 600 people, Holland had one destroy some of the Dom Tower in 1674... France had one that started off as a cyclone in the sea off the coast of La Rochelle a few years before the one that hit Holland. It went as far as Paris before finally fizzling out. Worcestershire had an F5 tornado hit them in 1761 that's really fascinating because there were a number of well-known first-hand accounts published about it. [release]At a quarter past four in the afternoon, a most astonishing phaenomen was seen at Great Malvern, in Worchestershire, and parts adjacent. It had the appearance of a volcano, and was attended with a noise as if 100 forges had been at work at once; it filled the air with a nausseous sulpherous smell; it rose from the mountains in the form of a prodigious thick smoak, and proceeded to the valleys, where it rose and fell several times; and at length it subsided in a turnep-field, where the leaves of the turneps, leaves of the trees, dirt, sticks, &c. filled the air and flew higher than the highest hills. It was preceded with the most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning ever heard in the memory of man, and spread an universal consternation, wherever it was seen or heard.[/release] It's funny reading them because nobody had any idea what the hell they were. There's been a bunch others, but those are some of the older ones.
[QUOTE=BCell;34983372]I wonder whether Tornadoes are exclusively found in North America cause We never heard of any tornadoes in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.[/QUOTE] Likely tornado regions world wide. [img]http://i.imgur.com/wkkmq.jpg[/img] The reason tornadoes happen in the midwest and "tornado alley" areas is because it's where colder low pressure systems come over the rockies and collide with warmer pressure systems from the gulf and Atlantic ocean. Along with the flat, easy landscape, it's just a perfect place for them to form.
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