was there a tornado in slidell, louisiana tonight?
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I heard there was one in the covington/ Abita springs area. Scary weather last night hu ?
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I love to watch them on tv. I love a thunderstorm near my house. Never been in a tornado or hurricane but they look really scary on tv. I think I would be very scared if I had to go thru a tornado of hurricane. We had a tropical storm one time with winds up to 70 mph. It was awful and lasted all night. I was so worried about the trees crashing on my house. They didn't but the ones in the far back fell. The house shook.
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You can thank the upper-air weather pattern for all the rain. I'm a storm chaser from Texas and these blocked patterns (upper ridge over the Rockies and upper trough over the Atlantic states) spell disaster for us looking for tornadoes across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. We constantly stay dry, and you guys constantly stay wet. Until the pattern changes to a more traditional West to East flow and can kick these blocked troughs / ridges out of here, we're in for more of the same.
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I saw a tornado in '90 when I lived out in Indiana - was the loudest noise I ever heard and I never want to hear again.  The sky was all weird too - a greenish-black.  As a native new englander I was pretty freaked out.\n\nI've been in a few hurricanes here in CT worst being Gloria in 1985.  The wind gets bad.. trees bent all the way to the ground..rain lashing against the house.  Then you get an eerie calm period in the eye and it starts all over again.  Luckily we don't get them as bad as the south.. I really feel for them!  Did a lot of damage.. had no power for a week.  Trees were broken, houses damaged severely.  I was out of high school for a week because all the electrical lines to the school were torn out.  \n\nI have been through more than my share of Nor'Easters too (snow storm indigenous to New England that pulls moisture from the Atlantic and brings it in from the northeast).  I've seen Nor'easters that have dumped 2-3 feet of snow in one shot.
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Well I did see 3 trucks pulling a real purdy double wide down hwy 44 this morning. I noticed 4 little kids looking out the windows as it drove by. If that sounds like yours it was headed west towards Oklahoma....Good Luck!!
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We had a tornado blow through our house in 1987. We called it black friday. Our house was torn and I was just 10 years old at the time. I remember that my parents were both at work and my older siblings and I were playing outside. The air was clear and dead silent. No birds were chirping. All of a sudden there were hail stones as big as golf balls pouring down. We were smart, we went inside. I helped my older siblings gather up the younger ones ( there was 7 of us) and we called my dad. We were told to get to the basement and stay there. We did. Within 30 minutes of that call, the roof of our house was torn off. A day that I am sure none of us will forget. No one was hurt, but there was a lot of damage and debris everywhere.
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I don't live in U.S.A., but I can't tell you for sure that the tornados aren't named as hurricanes or typhoons. A tornado has a scale of intensity. The Fujita Scale. A tornado is classified as Category F0 to F5. A tornado F0 is a tornado that produces light damage. Some damage to chimneys; branches broken off trees; shallow-rooted trees pushed over; sign boards damaged. The wind speed has to be less than 76 mph. A F1 tornado has some moderate damage. The lower limit is the beginning of hurricane wind speed (73 mph); peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos pushed off the roads; attached garages may be destroyed. The maximum limit is 112mph. A F2 tornado produces considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; light-object missiles generated. It's classified between 113 and 157 mph. A F3 tornado has severe damage. Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forest uprooted; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown. Wind speed parameters are between 158 and 206 mph. A F4 tornado produces devastating damage. Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown away some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated. The winds blow between 207 and 260 mph. Finally, a F5 tornado has an incredible damage. Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 m (100 yd); trees debarked; steel reinforced concrete structures badly damaged; incredible phenomena will occur. That's all. I hope that this helped you.
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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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try this site http://www.howstuffworks.com/tornado.htm
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ask at the national weather service database.  all reporting stations have their data recorded, if there is one there, they know the answer.
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Try the weather channel website.. maybe they have one there. You are from Peebles? Wow! I got folks there! :0)
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For a tornatdo to form, there must be cold air, warm air, horizontally spiraling air (casued by the coriolis effect), flat land, no water present. There must be an oncoming wind, and cold and warm aiar that is colliding from the northern and souther latitudes. When the masses of air meet, the warm or moist air will rise, since its density is lower than cold or dry air, ando this will create an upward motion. Now, the oncoming wind will come along (it will be spiraling already), and when it makes contact with the area in which the air masses met, the spiraling wind will basically be violently set upright and so a tornado will form. In the northern hemisphere, the winds will go in a counterclockwise direction and in an inward spiral. (This will be partailly due to the Coriolis effect& if you're in the southern hemisphere, the winds will go in a clockise direction). This is the basic science of tornadoes, as i have just learned this year in my Earth Science course.
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I live in West Tennessee and thankfully the tornadoes went past us this time. Still trying to recover from the ones that struck our neighborhood on April 2. Feel sorry for those people in middle tennessee.
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Well winds in a tornado can reach speeds of 300 mph, this in itself is enough to cause total destruction.\n\nPressure is also lowest at the center of a hurricane, or any other low-pressure system. The air is being pulled up away from the ground and thus the pressure is low.
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Well I dunno where you live but in Upstate NY .. the weather was terrible this morning. Very dark
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!!!!!!TORNADOES!!!!!!\n\nur siting right next 2 me hahahahaha!!!!
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LOOK OUT FOR A HURRICANE!!!!!!