what is a "suspected" tornado?

[Ike]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/02/florida.storm/index.html


Suspected tornadoes kill at least 14 in Florida

[Widescreen]

I think the press can get in hot water if they don't use "suspected" or "alleged" before the conviction.

[OUDoc]

Tornadoes have rights too.

[mdklatt]

People from the local NWS office often need to do a survey of storm damage to verify that it was a tornado and not just straight line winds.

[SleestakSooner]

LOL well I suppose it could have been straight line wind damage that tore up all those mobile homes. Basically it just means nobody has confirmed whether or not a tornado was the cause. But judging from the amount of damage I saw on the news earlier it looks like an F-2 possibly F-3 in spots.

It is interesting because the Enhanced Fujitsu Scale was just released. An EF-3 is not quite as strong as it used to be.

[jk the sooner fan]

i think they have to have visual confirmation before they can confirm a tornado....if all the weather "evidence" is ripe for tornadic activity, they'll used "suspected"

[TheHumanAlphabet]

It would be a gustnado or a water spout that they weren't sure of...;)

[Flagstaffsooner]

Could have been one of Olevet's beer farts.

[GottaHavePride]

They say "suspected" because they don't have stormchasing hillbillies with camcorders in Florida. ;)

[Penguin]

They have to talk to eyewitnesses and probably will do a tornado lineup.

You never know if it was an earthquake or a tsunami that was wearing a tornado mask.

[jk the sooner fan]

those lineups are not considered reliable in "disaster court"

[GottaHavePride]

They have to talk to eyewitnesses and probably will do a tornado lineup.

You never know if it was an earthquake or a tsunami that was wearing a tornado mask.

Stupid El Nino. He's a master of disguise.

[OUinFLA]

I slept through it all.
Im not a reliable witness.

[OUDoc]

Stupid El Nino. He's a master of disguise.
http://static.dailymotion.com/dyn/preview/160x120/287420.jpg

[Dio]

"If the wall cloud does not fit, you must acquit"

[Pricetag]

They have to talk to eyewitnesses and probably will do a tornado lineup.
Number three, please step forward and do your impression of a freight train.

[TUSooner]

This thread makes me laugh.
Maybe I'm not well.

[KABOOKIE]

Some people are 90% certain it was caused by humans. :D

[Flagstaffsooner]

I slept through it all.
Im not a reliable witness.Passed out drunk again.:rolleyes:

[StoopTroup]

So I hear the suspect roughed some folks up.

[Frozen Sooner]

Heh. It's entirely possible they interviewed someone on the scene:

"Ma'am, did you see what destroyed your home?"

"It was black!"

"Black?"

"Yeah, a big black dude!"

"Um, ma'am, this looks like tornado damage."

"Yeah, it was black!"

(That just comes from reading a bunch of witness statements after bank robberies-including mine. When we got robbed a few years ago, my eyewitness description included calling one of the pastiest people in history black. Memory is weird.)

[Flagstaffsooner]

It's not a confirmed tornado until the press interviews toothless people in front of their destroyed moble home.

"Me's and my common law wife, whoz really married to my brother hears a train a coming. I was fixin' to take a **** and the whole dern house just up and blew away. Good thing my *** was stuck to that there toilet seat."

[Jerk]

It was an alleged moble home

[Frozen Sooner]

Well, I'll bet when the suspected tornado hit the alleged mobile home, we got some proof REALLY quickly how mobile it could be.

[OUTromBoNado]

I just wanted to dig up another weather thread.


I got nothin'.