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Monster Tornado slams Omaha, Nebraska
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783967156679373087 ^ | 04/26/24 | basalt

Posted on 04/26/2024 5:15:38 PM PDT by basalt

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To: basalt

Read later.


61 posted on 04/26/2024 9:19:47 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Big Red Badger; basalt

I should just buy stock in Menards.

I need to look for a job here soon. Is Menards a good employer? You could pm me if you don’t want to say anything publicly.


62 posted on 04/26/2024 9:38:06 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: MountainDad

I’m sorry to hear that but glad you’re safe.


63 posted on 04/26/2024 9:39:35 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: central_va

Saw one of those in a pole barn recently.


64 posted on 04/26/2024 9:41:29 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: janetjanet998

Nebraska tornado - railroad engine experience

bkmk


65 posted on 04/26/2024 9:45:46 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: basalt

Yesterday was “only” an enhanced risk so it over performed (3 out of 5)

There is a moderate risk today (4/5)

A possible issue may be if storms fire in the morning reducing instability for the late afternoon / evening storms when other parameters are maxed out

I will start a new thread around noon central


66 posted on 04/27/2024 4:41:26 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: janetjanet998

yea..that kind of surprised me yesterday. I always check in the morning to see whats happening for the day, and nothing really stood out. Early reports say 106 tornados, but im sure those are 1 tornado counted multiple times. Is it just me, or do they have to rethink the wording on their severe storm potential for that day. Words like “enhanced” and “moderate” kinda doesnt really fit for what the actual threat is. “MODERATE” is the 2nd highest alert, but sure doesn’t sound like it. Does that make sense?...i dunno.


67 posted on 04/27/2024 5:34:29 AM PDT by basalt (She looks)
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To: dfwgator

i think it was the 1999 storm...its started out so small really, narrow. Actually kinda cute..lol. Well, 20 minutes later, wasn’t so cute. Still prob the worst damage pics i ever saw. Wish i could find the one pic. Was of a rail/freight car...and it was literally turned into an almost perfect ball of scrap steel...just a jaw dropping pic.


68 posted on 04/27/2024 5:40:37 AM PDT by basalt (She looks)
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To: janetjanet998

i have to agree with their ranking system being somewhat flawed...nobody will convince me that the tornado that hit Mayfield, Kentucky in Dec, 2021 was not an EF-5. I mean cmon, some of the debris was “granulated”, couldnt even tell what it once was. They always gotta mess around with things. They went back and started “redefining” some Hurricanes from 50 years ago...saying that Hurricane Camille really wasn’t as strong as once thought. Gonna sit in an office building 50 years later and “recalculate” a storm from years ago, instead of what was actually recorded. Those pictures from the Mississippi Coast dont lie.


69 posted on 04/27/2024 5:54:53 AM PDT by basalt (She looks)
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To: basalt

Mayfield, Kentucky in Dec, 2021 was not an EF-5
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Yes

It wiped well built homes down to nothing but bare slabs but since they weren’t reinforced or something ( I forgot the exact reason) it was classified as a high end EF4

Of course we have no idea if the homes did have that missing criteria, would the tornado still wipe the slab clean or not and be classified as EF5

Giving how rare a 200 MPH wind is combined with how picky and well built the structure must be , the odds of very low a tornado would be assigned an EF-5 rating even if it did have EF5 type winds


70 posted on 04/27/2024 6:13:10 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: janetjanet998

EF-4, EF-5... at a point they start to look the same.


71 posted on 04/27/2024 6:22:35 AM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: janetjanet998

So far no fatalities that I know of,, like I said the monsters missed the bigger towns and only sideswiped most of the smaller ones

The 2nd storm was really getting itself together fast heading directly for Central Omaha ..the circulation passed right over downtown

This is only a couple miles NNE of downtown Omaha
And only a few hundred feet from the last Residential areas

Plus look how close to the plane
It later turned into a massive wedge in Iowa

Tornado doing damage at Epply Airport in Omaha, NE 4-26-2024

https://rumble.com/v4rw9cu-tornado-doing-damage-at-epply-airport-in-omaha-ne.html


72 posted on 04/27/2024 6:30:50 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: OKSooner

EF-4, EF-5... at a point they start to look the same.

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On the old F scale an F-4 was described as wiping a house clean of its foundation but leaving a pile of Rubble of the slab

An F-5 would leave nothing on the concrete slab

The updated EF scale added more criteria

Many of the F-5’s from long ago would be likely classified EF-4’s today

Now watch me jinx today and we will have several tornadoes that get classified of EF-5’s

So I will just stop talking about it :)


73 posted on 04/27/2024 6:37:12 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: basalt

Not so strange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Omaha_tornado_outbreak


74 posted on 04/27/2024 7:02:13 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: butterdezillion

I worked on John Menards Indy Car team...
Great Guy and lots of Free stuff!


75 posted on 04/27/2024 7:32:07 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: janetjanet998

Our house is across from the Council Bluffs airport and took a video of one about two miles south of us. We used to live in Crescent, Iowa and another tornado missed our old neighborhood by about an 1/8 of a mile. Lived in the Omaha area for my 60 years & first time I’ve seen a tornado. Crazy day.


76 posted on 04/27/2024 7:34:17 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: basalt

Oh geez. My daughter was in Manhattan, Kansas this past week and bad weather forecasted for the entire time she was there. After viewing that film, I am so glad she’s back home and safe. That scares the bejezuz out of me.


77 posted on 04/27/2024 7:37:45 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Wuli

I delivered newspapers in Omaha during that tornado and again during the 18” blizzard. Was 3-4 miles away from the tornado but no dodging the snow.


78 posted on 04/27/2024 7:41:30 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mean Daddy

Yes. The paths of precipitation, whether rain or snow are normally always much broader than the path’s of tornados. We lived in the Midwest and upstate NY for many years, until my mom was (with 8 kids) sick and tired of winters; then my dad got an Air Force transfer to California. No winter, no tornados, just forest fires and an occasional minor earthquake.


79 posted on 04/27/2024 7:47:55 AM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: rlmorel

2011 Joplin Mo. tornado


80 posted on 04/27/2024 9:07:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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