The most severe Tornado was an EF3 that was on the ground for 30 minutes and 15 miles. When I say involved I was literally standing in the Tornado. Seemed like an eternity. I had gone to the local Little Caesar Pizza place at the halftime of the Dallas Cowboy Philadelphia Eagle game tp get a pizza for the game. When I got to the Little Caesars they had run out of pizzas. So I had to wait. While I was waiting the Tornado hit the shopping Center and sucked me out of the building.
I was literally standing inside the Tornado. I found a support column to hold on to at first. Then it spun me off the column and onto a truck that was parked in front of the Little Caesars. I tried holding on to the hood of the truck but there was nothing to hold on to. I ended up on the ground holding on to the rim of the left front tire until it stopped.
It was dead still and all the lights were off because power had been knocked out. People were screaming and cars alarms were going off all over the place. It was like a war zone.
The Tornado was an EF3 with sustained winds of mph and it was yards wide at its base. That is 13 football fields wide. Words cannot describe what it felt like. Beyond horrifying. I am lucky to be alive for sure. Someone was definitely watching out for me. My back, head, and lower legs were hit the hardest. I have debris rocks, mud, glass in there to this day.
Most of it is out but not all. Terry and I were watching a reported tornado path north of us that was traveling east of Greenville across Miami County. After it moved by, we hung up and they were in good shape and safe with little impact to them.
That storm was rated and EF Subsequently to this event, and after our own event described below, there was another tornado EF-0 that passed 3 miles south of their home for a few miles. At that time, pm approx. This now is our storm. We watched, and it was obvious to me that the rotation on the storm was very strong and I mentioned that to Terry about a half minute before WHIO said the exact same thing.
As they cycled through the storm, I noticed that the rotation was heading due east from Brookville and there was a debris ball associated with the rotation signature. Again this was verified by WHIO on the air seconds after I mentioned it to Terry in my narrative of what we were looking at.
Around this time pm approx.. Terry and I looked at each other and she asked whether we need to take shelter. We heard the winds increasing at this point and sounds of sporadic hail hitting the house and roof.
The hail was not heavy or especially large. At that point the TV went out and the lights started flashing on and off and on and off. We closed the door. The lights then went out for good, but we did have a flashlight with us and I flicked it on. We heard the winds increasing and gusting heavily in a slightly pulsing ebb and flow. There was vivid and continuous lightning, the sounds of the winds increased quite a bit, and we heard thumping on the back decks, the north side of the house, and big thumps in the front and above us.
I felt pressure difference in my ears, heard the toilet gurgle, and we both noticed the pressure difference as waves of pressure variation washed through the house and us. The bathroom door was shaking as if someone wanted to get inside throughout all this. Also during the event we both heard the continuous background noise of the winds that was steady and slowly passing from west to east as if a farmer had his heavy and loud tractor plowing the fields to our south.
After a minute or so, the winds settled down and the door shopped shaking. The pressure waves left and we were ok. We had been hugging through the entire event and Terry asked if it was over. I said I thought it was safe now. We opened the bathroom door and everything was deathly quiet except for a constant moan, or even a groan, which was the tornado circulation as it continued to head east.
Very disturbing, especially with continuous lightning but NO thunder. Using my cell phone, I called in the details to NWS Wilmington at pm with the impact of the tornado at my location being approx. Reception was cutting in and out as cell towers were apparently being disabled, with calls being picked up on other towers by the tornado while we talked. My storm chasing bug is gone, John. After all, the storm chased me!! After we composed ourselves and kissed, thanking God we were alive, we got off the floor and started our survey.
I found her a flashlight, and scoped the inside of the house. Untouched and no water damage or cracks to the outside. Then I peeked out the deck door and saw nothing but leaves. Same with the front door when I opened it. Leaves and branches. There was no rain, no wind, but still continuous lightning to the east, peppered with blue and green flashes as power lines, transformers, and power substations were damaged and put off line.
I put on my rubber knee boots and we both went outside to check on external damage. Another had hit our roof, damaged our gutter and soffit and cartwheeled over the roof to the back yard. Numerous other branches were on our deck and littering our yard. Our ornamental pear was shattered and shredded, laying in our back yard. Most of the tree damage in the neighborhood had the same orientation. Also the north side of our house was sand blasted with shredded leaves and debris, but the other sides of the house were clean.
Each piece was very heavy and anchored together, but he winds managed to move them very easily. Similarly, our furniture on the upper deck ended up shoved together in a pile against the south railing. I had covered the outside furniture and anchored them together as I normally do when there is a threat of rain or storms to protect them. Again, as we did our inspection tour the sky was continuous lightning but no thunder to the east.
We later found out that another tornado had formed over Englewood to our north and east and moved southeast, as our tornado continued on east to cross I and north Dayton and into Riverside.
We chatted with the neighbors, made sure we were all safe and ok, and listened to the emergency sirens for an hour and a half as we all checked out our homes. No rain, no winds, just a deep calm and quiet. With diminishing lightning to the east. The assessor came out today Saturday to check out the property. The assessor thinks we need to tear off and replace our siding, but we have the option to have a building inspector validate his findings.
Visually the siding looks fine with a few dents, but with no loose sections or panels, I would just as soon keep what we have had for 40 years. The day began like any other. Raindrops ticked along the glass of the apartment living room window on this warm, stormy day. At about 5 pm, I started hearing about a storm system off to the west.
Seconds later, sirens sounded. I headed to the bathroom and watched the blood red cell on radar as lights went out and cellular reception was lost. My sister told me to move to the hallway with everyone else. The sky was lit with ominous furious lightning. I took cover in the hallway as the train sound rumbled outside. The first tornado passed but now the second one was headed our way.
The funnel moved over the apartment complex before moving into the night from our location, Route 48 in Harrison Township toward old North Dayton. Back in , I just got home from school and the sirens went off.
My mom put me under a desk and put a table on top. The tornado jumped over our house and took a few shingles off with it. But it took out the northeast side of town. I was out on the back lot, what we call the backing pad, when it began to storm.
So I told everybody as usual to take shelter until the lightning stopped. Some people went to their cars; some went inside. It was just a light rain and the lightning was in a distance so I stayed in my pickup truck parked next to a fence with a large tree in front of me and a metal carport to the left of me. Directly behind me, sitting perpendicularly to my pickup truck, was a semi-truck. The rain was light. My truck was running and I had the windshield wipers on.
I looked out the driver's side window and noticed it was getting a little windy; some of our camping chairs blew over. I looked out my right windshield and noticed the vines growing along the fence were starting to blow around kind of funny.
A moment later, just like that, all around me was wind and it got real dark. The wind was going in a way that I've never seen before.
Then a section of a roof blew over me and just shredded apart mid-air. That's when the back windshield on my pickup truck shattered, throwing glass all over me.
The tree sitting directly in front of me, which was relatively large, blew over like it was nothing. Also part of the fence blew over top of the hood of my pickup. I crouched down real low in the driver's seat and just prayed. I held onto the steering wheel for dear life. I could feel the back of the truck lifting. I could still see out the front windshield and I could see power lines exploding out in front of me. The visibility was really poor at this point but I could still see the flashes.
It lasted for about 45 seconds but it seemed like a lifetime. I remember praying out loud and my hands were shaking.
I had my phone in my hand so of course even though I was freaking out and praying to God thinking that I probably wouldn't live I decided to try to video what I could. I could see the semi that was behind me had blown over top of me and landed next to the carport. I could barely walk. I was in a state of shock, knee-deep in flood water. I walked around more or less like a zombie shaking and trembling, looking at the other two semis that had blown over.
There were people running about in every direction. I don't know how long I wandered around. Some of my other instructor colleagues saw me and came up to me and asked me if I was okay. I couldn't even speak. Finally, I managed to phone my wife at work but she can't pick up so I left a voicemail that she still has. I don't think I ever want to hear that because I do remember I was screaming. I don't know how long it took me to calm down and regain my senses but I finally went back to record a video walkthrough of the damage.
Then I went back to my pickup truck which was still running and started to pick up some of the debris and nails so I could drive out of there. I've been through a couple traumatic incidents in my life as a veteran of the Gulf War.
This was, hands down, one of those most traumatic and terrifying moments of my life. I think the real reason why I was so terrified because I had no training, no warning, and no defense against whatever was coming. The tornado was classified two days later as an EF-1 tornado. It had a base of about 75 to a hundred yards across. It had been raining hard most of the afternoon. At approximately pm the rain stopped and there was an eerie silence followed by the patter of what sounded like hail on the metal roof of the shop.
Then the wind started howling. I looked up and saw the 16 ft garage door bowing inward from the wind. I sighed a breath of relief hoping the twister had skipped over the shop. That relief was short lived as in the next few seconds I heard the train sound, which actually sounded like a thrashing machine metal being chewed up, indescribable actually.
Then the entire back wall of the shop began to bow in. All I could think of was get to a low spot. There was none. Records show Suter was unconscious during this time because he had been struck on the head by a lamp in the mobile home. Suter woke up in a grassy field sometime later after being thrown over a barbed wire fence. Luckily, Suter only suffered a head injury from the lamp -- and his feet were badly scratched. Fifteen years to the date, the distance still hold the Guinness World Book record for the longest distance anyone has even been thrown by a tornado and survived.
That day, the numerous tornadoes injured over 30 people and damaged more than homes. Hurricane winds reach 74 mph or faster. So, which is worse? Meteorologists say the call depends on what you're comparing. While tornadoes may be more intense storms, hurricanes tend to stick around much longer, cover more ground and cause more damage.
What is a tornado called in Australia? In Australia, it's called a willy-willy. In the US, it's a hurricane, and in the Southern Pacific, a typhoon. So, the only true difference between a hurricane, a cyclone, and a typhoon is where in the world the storm is!
Can a tornado happen at night? Tornadoes form where warm moist air is trapped underneath a layer of cold, dry air. Although tornadoes are more frequent in the afternoon, they can happen anytime, even at night. Should you go under a bridge during a tornado? Myth 3: When you're on the road, the best place to ride out a tornado is under a bridge. Although it might seem like the bridge over your head would protect you, hiding under an overpass or bridge is actually very dangerous, because a tornado's winds can blast debris underneath the structure.
How big is a hurricane eye? The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30—65 kilometres 19—40 mi in diameter. Others taking refuge under overpasses have been killed or injured, most notably by tornadoes that hit Oklahoma City on May 3, Tornadoes crossed over interstate highways in seven locations on that day, and people died at three of them.
According to the Storm Prediction Center, while the concrete and re-bar in the bridge may offer some protection against flying debris, the overpass also acts as a wind tunnel and may actually serve to collect debris. The winds in a tornado tend to be faster with height. By climbing up off the ground, you place yourself in even greater danger from the tornado and flying debris.
When coupled with the accelerated winds due to the wind tunnel, these winds can easily exceed mph. Truth: If you realize you won't be able to outrun an approaching tornado, you are much safer to abandon your vehicle, and take shelter in a road-side ditch or other low spot, even though it may seem counterintuitive.
It's not an ideal situation, but it's probably your best shot. This just wastes valuable time, according to the Storm Prediction Center: "Don't worry about equalizing the pressure, the roof ripping off and the pickup truck smashing through the front wall will equalize the pressure for you.
Many tornadoes have crossed rivers and even gone on to cause widespread damage to riverside cities. A tornado in tracked directly down the Mississippi River, killing hundreds, mostly on the water near Natchez, Miss. Per the SPC: Others have crossed large rivers without losing speed they momentarily became water spouts and devastated cities that folklore had thought immune to tornadoes.
The Great St. Louis Cyclone of jumped the Mississippi River. True, but rare. Patty Bullion created a Facebook page in to reunite tornado victims with photos they lost in the tornadoes of April 27, People and animals have been transported up to a quarter mile or more without serious injury, according to the SPC.
Fragile items, such as sets of fine china, or glassware have been blown from houses and recovered, miles away, without any damage. However, given the quantity of airborne debris, these occurrences are the exception, rather than the norm.
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