22-05-2013, 04:30 PM
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Re: Tornado strikes Oklahoma City Suburbs
As much as we welcome the end of winter, it also means the risk of this type of extreme weather. The tornado in Oklahoma was particularly bad and it's so sad to learn there was so much loss of life. I live in an area designated as a "Tornado Alley" but we get much lower category storms than the US does. Oklahoma hasn't had one this bad since May of '99.
23-05-2013, 04:50 AM
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Re: Tornado strikes Oklahoma City Suburbs
Originally Posted by Annie Jack
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As much as we welcome the end of winter, it also means the risk of this type of extreme weather. The tornado in Oklahoma was particularly bad and it's so sad to learn there was so much loss of life. I live in an area designated as a "Tornado Alley" but we get much lower category storms than the US does. Oklahoma hasn't had one this bad since May of '99.
We get waterspouts off the coast occasionally. Funnily enough when I first came to Australia in 1966 I was in a flat overlooking Sydney harbour at Cremorne Point when one started right in the middle of a yacht race between my flat and the then being built Opera House. It started moving toward me, capsized all the yachts in the vicinity, tore half the roof off the house opposite and disappeared immediately. Lasted all of about 40 seconds to 1 minute.
There was quite a severe one very recently just south of me again nothing on the scale of the US ones. My storm chasing friend, currently in the USA, filmed this afterwards.
BTW his car is a mass of dings from hailstones and flying debris.
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