i live in kennett missouri and surrounding areas like tenn. ans arkansas basicly southeastern mo and surounding areas and i am looking for pictures and info on the f3 tornad that sunday night it did quiet a bit of damage
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Sometimes what I do when I am looking for something in a city or region that I don't know much about I type in the city and state on Yahoo.com or I go to newspapers.com and try to find the cities newspaper. Or try to go to the Weather Channel. They usually have top stories on the weather. Or yet another thing you can try is to find the local news stations websites. I know that this may not have been what you were looking for but it is a start.
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Actually a storm came through Fort Worth in about 1995, the sky was about as green as a lilly pad.  We didn't get the severe weather where I lived, but FW got grapefruit sized hail in the park that actually killed several people.  Now that I study and work in weather I know what causes the green discoloration when the light refracts off hailstone in the air it causes a light green light, with more widespread and intense hail you get the darker green
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go to weatherchannel.com and download the destopweather or go to weatherbug.com to download
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Actually NOAA has quite a handful of planes with high-quality radar, and they do use them in such projects.  I direct you to http://www.stormresearch.com/vortex/ for one such project, and http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2002/ihop.html for a more recent project on rain.\nI am currently related to a project looking at some high resolution Dopplar data from a hurricane a few years back while it was over the ocean.\n\nRegular WSR-88D Dopplar (the network the NWS uses) is decently effective at general alerting to possible tornadic storms... and it would be extremely expensive to send planes out all the time just for warning purposes (though there is a new test-project to setup a larger network of low cost radars to improve warnings a lot (http://www.casa.umass.edu/)).\n\nBut there are some things regular 88Ds can't give us, including:\n- better time and spatial resolution of features (we want to be near a tornado to get a more precise view of what it looks like, and WSR88Ds only update something like every 5 minutes because they scan the entire 360 degree sky)\n- the vertical wind fields.  You need at least two properly located radars to get the full 3-dimensional structure of winds... and this is crucial to understanding what's actually happening in a storm.\n\nSo, yes, portable Dopplars are very useful.  They also help us look at weather in places where we don't/can't have any fixed radars (like at sea or in mountain ranges).\nGenerally, portable radars on trucks will get us the same information, are much cheaper (and safer) to transport, you don't have to worry about removing the motion of the radar (planes are moving, trucks can be stopped), and you don't have as much trouble with beams hitting the ground... and thus most of our tornado information comes from truck-mounted radars like the famous Dopplar on Wheels (http://aaron.ou.edu/dow/dow.htm).  However, there are some reasons to use planes even in such experiments, including better upper-level resolution, the ability to reposition quicker, and the fact that trucks can only hold and power radars that are a cerain size.\n\nPlanes are indeed useful, and hopefully we'll continue to get better ones for research... as they really can provide quite a great suite of information (dropsondes (weather sensors that are dropped from airplanes) are also great because they give a rather quick profile of the atmosphere)!\n\nAwesome question!\n\nHope I helped answer things,\nGod bless,\nShane
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WHEW!!!! This question took quite a bit of time and effort to find an answer but.... \n\nAccording to Aviation Archaeology, there was a B-17 from Alamogordo AAF that crashed 6 miles SE of Magdalena, NM on Oct 15th 1942. Pilot John Pratt was killed when it hit the mountain inflight. The B-17 was AAFSN 41-9161.\n\nIf you want more details, you can buy the crash report which is 33 pages long with 3 (poor) pictures of the crash. To order the report you can send a check or money order to AAIR at the address below for $27.60. Or if you prefer to pay by credit card you can click on the PayPal link on my web site  http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/reports.htm#ORD  and tell them you want to send aair@aviationarchaeology.com $28.60 (extra $1.00 credit card fee). \n\nAAIR Aviation Archaeological Investigation & Research\nhttp://www.AviationArchaeology.com    \nEmail- aair@aviationarchaeology.com\nFalcon Field Station Box 22049 Mesa, AZ 85277-2049\n480-218-8198\n\nAdditionally, http://www.accident-report.com/States/NM.html provides reports for military plane crashes in NM. You can order a Undersize Accident Report/MACR (7 pages or less) for $15. They will scan and Email some reports.\nhttp://www.accident-report.com/prices.html
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motorcycle or bicycle?\n\nPawhuska is a great rally, just over the oklahoma border, they have it in May and September.  Check out this site for dates: http://www.ocib.net/\n\nalso, www.sekrally.com this one is in Pittsburg ks,\n\nULYSSES ABATE BIKE RALLY ULYSSES, Kansas\n\nand there is a great one in Fayetteville Arkansas in October called Bikers, blues and BBQ ,, then the Party Naked, july 4th weekend (also around Fayetteville area) then  there is the Blowout , in Gulport MS on Memorial day weekend.  All are great rallies!  I have been to them all.\n\nI ride my own too!  also ask some of the other diehard bakers at these runs and they will let you know the best ones to go to.  Keep Riding!
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I'm not to sure of this ,but I think I once read somewhere\nabout bomber crews of the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.A.F.(as it was then)reporting strange looking aircraft that they saw in European skies,try the reference library,a fascinating subject,best of luck with it
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In past years, two people died when a tornado ripped through Batavia on September 3, 1993, and another tornado caused millions of dollars damage, but no fatalities, in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga on July 30, 1987\n\nsee if the following helps, plenty of pictures at the end
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After reading some of the earlier replies to this question, I think I (or someone else with expertise in meteorology) must respond. First, DO NOT WASTE PRECIOUS TIME OPENING THE WINDOWS OF YOUR HOME!!! This is an old-wives tale, passed down by those who do not understand the pressure-loading upon walls during tornadic events. The inside of a tornado is low pressure, much lower than in your home. As a tornado passes near or over the home, pressure builds on the inside of the walls, out. Due to the depth of the low in a tornado, this pressure builds up much earlier than will any damage from in-blown debris will occur. In fact, if the windows are going to blow out, they will do so whether you go around opening them or not. Opening the windows also does not alleviate the pressure build-up along the walls, since unless you own clerestory windows (for which you can't open anyway) and your entire house is glass, the pressure will still build up along the walls regardless. Opening the windows is only a time-waster, and will offer no real protection from anything. At best, from the time those sirens go off, you have 15 minutes to get to cover - you do NOT have time to waste opening windows.\n\nSecond, unless you are a trained storm spotter or experienced chaser (and, since you're asking this question, you aren't) DO NOT try and "film" the tornado. Quite frankly, every civilian who does this not only puts their own lives at risk, but they also selfishly endanger the lives of EMS and civil defense workers. I personally think that every good-timing yahoo who tries to film the tornado, and lacks the knowledge to do so safely, should be mandated to make the calls to the families of the police, fire, and EMS heroes who sacrifice in the line of duty to save the idiots.\n\nAnother misconception that needs to be dispelled before someone suggests it, is DO NOT seek refuge under an overpass if you're caught outside in a tornadic event. Five or six years ago, there was some infamous footage of a t.v. camera crew taking cover under an overpass when they themselves were caught outside while taping the storm (yet another example of point 2 above). They luckily survived, and because they did, many people who watched the tape believed (falsely) that this was a good tactic. If you examine the equation of vorticity, you will note that the wind speed actually increases as the circumference of the confining area decreases- in other words, the wind speed and force actually increases under overpasses. At least a few souls that I know of found this out the hard way. If you're caught outside, the best thing you can do to protect yourself is to lie smooshed-down, as flat as you can, into the nearest gulley or ditch; cover your head and neck with your arms so that you have at least some protection from debris. Hopefully, this tactic will shield you from debris, and may reduce the suction force since wind speeds slow down considerably in the boundary layer due to friction forces.\n\nIf you're in your car, abandon it and follow the procedure in paragraph 3 - you do not have the experience to know how to drive around a tornado and stay (relatively) safe. If you're in an apartment or trailer, either seek shelter in the storm shelter the property managers have (hopefully) put on-site or follow either the outdoor procedures (trailer park residents) or the following house advice (apartment dwellers). If you're in an apartment which does not have a shelter, or a house, seek shelter either (ideally) in a basement or in a window-less, centrally-located bathroom - or if all else fails, closet. You need windowless because you want to avoid flying glass and debris, and central because most tornados that strike are F3 or lower, which will only typically take the outer walls, and leave inner rooms intact. Bathrooms offer more protection than closets, because of the plumbing in the walls (of course, this only really applies if the plumb
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There is a nice graphical diagram of the positions at http://www.weather.gov/rita/\n\nYou can also use the interactive viewer at http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html and search by Named Storm for Rita.\n\nIf you just want the raw text data, then it can be found at http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~stevenb/hurr/05/rita/rita.txt
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There are a lot of people on here who answer just so they can belittle people. I have lived on or along the Gulf coast all my life and hurricane's are a fact of life, if we asked why people built there every time a tornado hit the Midwest people wouldn't like that either. These are our homes and this was where we were raised and just like good Americans everywhere we will fight to keep and protect what's ours. Good luck girl and keep your chin up not everyone on here is a dipstick!
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oh i'm so sorry to hear that.  one of my high school teachers lost her husband in that tornado too.  you can check with the wausau daily herald to see if they have the stories and photos in their archives.  it made front page news there.\n\nhttp://www.wausaudailyherald.com
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What may have happened was the funnel cloud you saw was either a downburst or a cold air funnel.\n\nHowever, in the case they aren't cold air funnels or downbursts and the NWS doesn't catch it in time and doesn't issue a tornado warning, it might be that their equippment didn't catch it in time or that no spotters saw it.  \n\nWeather spotters and weather radar isn't perfect.  So err on the side of caution when you see severe weather.  Even if it's a severe thunderstorm warning, head indoors and don't be chicken to head to the basement.
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There's supposably one in a church near Lawrence, Ks in a town called Stull, I think.  Missed my chance to check it out and I think it's been torn down, but I know people who claim they've seen things there, although they were too scared to get close or go inside the place.
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I don't have exact info, but these 2 sites seem to have info on the storm the night.  2nd site showed a Tornado Watch at 9:54 PM.\n\nhttp://www.weatherunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=amac3486&number=17&gallery=CURRWEATHER\n\nhttp://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:09jy2KPFroAJ:weather.kentucky.com/US/KY/Lexington.html%3Fmap%3DIRSatellite%26anim%3D0%26map%3DIRSatellite%26anim%3D0%26map%3DIRSatellite%26anim%3D0+storm+%22May+25%22+lexington+lightning&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8\n\nIf this is true, my condolences.
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while driving my motorcylcle along mississippi river north of st louis at about 60 mph, i hit a dragonfly.  i splattered all over my glasses after it hit my cheek, and it stung quite a bit.  i had to stop  as i was pulling my bike off to the shoulder, all i could smell was the scent of dead fish and bugs.  it was from the bug guts.  \n\nhitting a bird at 180 mph would probably have broken a jaw bone.
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http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/img/ttor8099.gif shows tornado frequency from 1980-1999.  You can see basically every state east of the Rockies is an area of tornadoes to some degree except Maine.\n\nWhat this map says is that it ranges from about .2 to .9 tornado days per year across Tennessee.\n\nThis means that if you lived anywhere outside of the real large Appalachians in Tennessee, a tornado passes within 25 miles of your house about once every 2 years (as often as almost every year near Memphis).  So while it's not as common as the Plain States or even Florida or Colorado (the large spikes in those latter two regions are probably due to some statistical anomalies... though both are surprisingly active (if you check the significant tornado map (http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/sigt2195.gif), you get a better idea of real patterns), tornadoes are still quite common to Tennessee... specifically March-May (you can view a date based loop here http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/tanim/torw8099.html).\n\nYou can also look at a lot more data at the main page http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/totalthreat.html.  This is the data the Storm Prediction Center is using for guidance to some of their probability forecasts.\n\n\nFrom my own experience (I don't live in Tennessee), I remember quite a few events effecting the state before this year, including the major tornado outbreaks of November 9-10, 2002 and May 4, 2003 which socked much of the country, but of which they got a lot of the punch.  I also remember a video I've seen of a significant tornado going through downtown Nashville.  So they definitely get them, as do all the states you may be hearing about on the news.\n\nHope I was able to answer your question,\nGod bless,\nShane