Posted on 01/12/2023 1:26:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
A tornado touched down in Milton, Calif. east of Stockton on Wednesday. Wind speeds reached 90 miles per hour, which was strong enough to break many trees.
A tornado touched down in Milton, Calif. with powerful winds that damaged many trees on Wednesday.
Wind speeds topped out at 90 miles per hour in the community east of Stockton.
Pine and oak trees were splintered, but no injuries were reported in Calaveras County.
The tornado touched down around 4 a.m. and traveled less than half a mile, according to National Weather Service information. The tornado was 50 yards wide, according to reports.
It was categorized as an EF-1 tornado, which equates to moderate damage, the Modesto Bee reported. The scale goes up to EF-5 for tornadoes with winds above 200 mph.
Fire up those evil petroleum powered chain saws and log splitters! Burning wood has been ruled “carbon neutral” by Eurocrats.
Does California get tornadoes very often? I’m in Az but not familiar with California’s weather. I did not know they get tornadoes.
I knew a man who had a small tornado touch down in his back yard, right on top of a eucalyptus tree, twisting the trunk right out of the stump and laying it down in the one place in his yard that wouldn’t cause expensive damage.
The stump verified the story.
Considering the state of education in Kalifornia, perhaps they should begin a campaign to stop the wind by cutting down trees. I have run across several liberals who believe that wind comes from the trees. No trees, no powerful wind.
Tornadoes can and have occurred in every U.S. state. The contiguous states west of the Rockies get them infrequently and at lower strength. AK rarely gets them. HI gets about one per year, and nothing higher than EF-2. East of the Rockies, all bets are off.
They are very rare, but we had one come through out neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in 1998. The kids were outside playing in the backyard after school and our oldest (then 12) screamed “Mom, it’s a tornado!” Mom thought, “Yeah, sure,” but it really was. It demolished a few trees, ripped off some roofing in the neighborhood, flattened the tennis court fences at the high school, and ruined the batting cages. It probably wasn’t even an F1.
I spent seven years in Missouri and we knew what real tornadoes were there.
All 57?
More often than you think. Here's a link to a map of tornadoes since 1950
https://data.thecalifornian.com/tornado-archive/
We've had a few near Yuma too and that's close enough to California for the tally. Also I have seen water spouts off of San Diego a few times.
The heartland is tornado country. In 1979 a big sucker hit Wichita Falls, TX. The base was a mile wide.
California tornados much worse than red state tornados. Imagine a screaming cyclone hurling human feces and dirty syringes at 120 mph.
Actually, there are 58 or 60, depending on how you take his actual gaffe. He said he'd visited 57 states over the last 15 months, and that he had one left to go. He also stated he wasn't allowed to go to AK and HI. So, 58 or 60, depending on if that "one left to go" was continental or not based on the AK/HI comment. I say 60 given that he said he did say he wasn't traveling to AK and HI.
Californicate just need a 10.7 earthquake to finish it off.
My uncle sold lumber for Weyerhaeuser in Fort Worth. He covered Wichita Falls and made a fortune in that one.
We had a big one skip over our house in the ‘burbs west of St Louis around 1967. It flattened the subdivision before us and after us, but happily skipped right over ours. We were huddling in the basement scared to death. It wasn’t as wide as the Wichita Falls one, but plenty big enough for us.
Tornadoes will do that. CA is not exempt from tornado damage.
California: “Did you hear about my 90-MPH tornado!”
Kansas: “Hold my beer.”
Yep, ditto for Oklahoma. I used to live in OKC and hearing the radio broadcast cut to the Emergency Broadcast Signal as the sirens start going off outside is something I'll never forget. Was there for the F-5 that hit on May 3, 1999. Another one just barely missed my house in 2003.
Not related but this shows nature is not to be fooled with.
Nature is powerful. Look what it does to tree.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1613365174722826242
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