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To: fwdude

I was referring to the width of tornado at ground level. The funnel may be 2 miles wide but the ground path is not.


32 posted on 04/28/2014 8:08:12 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: raybbr

The ground path IS the recorded width of the tornado. How could it be otherwise?

To be honest, most tornadoes of appreciable size are actually a system of smaller suction vortices which swirl around a central area of circulation. But the whole system of circulation is, indeed, a tornado.


34 posted on 04/28/2014 8:11:33 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: raybbr

Yes it is...


35 posted on 04/28/2014 8:12:32 AM PDT by halo66
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To: raybbr

Go take a look at some historical aerial photos of tornado damage, Greenfield, Kansas would be a start. The whole old downtown section was destroyed by one tornado. Eight blocks are roughly a mile.


36 posted on 04/28/2014 8:16:10 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: raybbr
El Reno, OK tornado ground scar http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Ground_Scar_from_May_31%2C_2013_El_Reno_tornado.jpg
37 posted on 04/28/2014 8:20:18 AM PDT by halo66
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