The Superoutbreak...36 yrs ago today...

[ouwasp]

Just finished reading F-5 by Mark Levine. It is about the day 148 tornadoes ripped the eastern third of the US from the gulf states to the midwest.

The most infamous storm of that day is probably the Xenia, OH twister. But Levine's book concentrates on Limestone County, Alabama. There is a small settlement named Tanner that was struck by an F-5.... and 30 minutes later, about the time folks started helping each other out of the rubble... Tanner was hit by an F-4! :eek:

Can you imagine that? One of the persons interviewed in the book says, upon seeing the second monster approaching, "That's the sorta thing that can make you believe it's the end of the world..."

Hope the outbreak predicted for the next coupla days is nowhere close to the one of '74...

[WILBURJIM]

http://www.april31974.com/

37 years ago?

*****


Also, it is the 55th anniversary of a rare F5 tornado in Michigan.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/science/19560403/vriesland_trufant/

Weatherman up here in Grand Rapids is telling us the conditions this spring are similar to 1956 & 1974 - LaNina etc.

[ouwasp]

:O
heh.... okay, 37 yrs ago today...

Thanks for the article on the Michigan F-5, Wilbur. I hadn't heard of that one. I had just turned 11 in '74 (11-12, something like that ;) ), and like a lot of kids, was fascinated by tornadoes. Although sometimes the weather folks over-hype the severe, on the day before one of these supposed outbreaks, I catch myself wondering who/what will be impacted by that which is imminent...:(

I guess we can hope it is a misfire, but prepare otherwise. :gary: