before trains what did tornadoes sound like?
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Thousands of Horses Running
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I agree with a number of the other posts that you should state the question correctly. One doesn't see thunder, but I'm assuming you are talking about the light from the lightning that created the thunder.......yes?\n\nAnyway, with such an assumption, and based on the numbers in your question, you will see the lightning from the northern-most strike before you see the one from the south.\n\nThe train will have moved roughly 0.475 inches when the lightning flash reaches the observer, and therefore this ligtning flash has this much less to travel before reaching the train.\n\nIf you're actually talking about thunder......or....sound, you'd still hear the nothern-most thunder first.
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The blaze, it sounds scary
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maybe someone got shot right outside your window while it was raining.. perfect cover\n\nNo, really the different sounds are created by different frequencies and wavelentghs of the vibrations caused by the electricity splitting the air. This can vary from the sonic boom you hear when a F15 crosses Mach 1 .. to the crack noise you hear with a whip. As for the loudness, it is a function of intensity and proximity.. so yea the same lightning will be louder when its closer.. but it could also be a very strong lightning far away.. the way you could tell would be the difference in light and sound... \n\ni hope this helps
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I've seen several funnel clouds, those are an awesome and chilling sight. By the time you notice them they're pretty well-formed. Almost all of them last a few seconds and either dissipate or roll back up into the sky. We were actually involved with a real tornado three years ago, It was an F1-F2 that stayed on the ground for almost thirty miles. I heard  the siren go off in the next town, we got the kids and the dogs in the basement. My wife and I kept going outside and looking around for something more threatening than the usual oncoming thunderstorm. After about 10 minutes we heard the freight train coming and headed downstairs. The house shook enough that the dust came down from the rafters. It lasted less than thirty seconds and then a whole lot of rain came down. The tornado missed us by 200 yards. The telephone pole in the corner of my back yard was okay, the one next to it was torn out of the ground and thrown across the road. The one next to that was torn out and thrown a hundred yards. No one in my rural neighborhood was hurt, but they did wind up bulldozing and rebuilding three homes. The home across the street had the front porch torn off and thrown over the roof, exposing a large hole in the roof deck that let in enough rain to collapse most of the ceilings. The path of damage was maybe a half-mile wide. Homes outside that range did not see much damage. I was surprised that the wind was toward the tornado, not away from it. The funnel was enough of a low-pressure point to draw the air towards it at a hundred-and-some miles an hour. The broken trees have repaired themselves, the homes and farms have been rebuilt, The only lasting reminder is a lot of sheets of tin barn roof still wrapped around treetops. We're in Northern Ohio. Moderate tornado damage is at least a yearly event in the area. Huge destructive disastrous storms like they get in the plains are a rarity.
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Is that technology now being used?  I knew of European and Asian trains capable of 200+ mph speeds, but nothing in the supersonic range.  Rhetorically speaking, I suppose they would have no point.  If anything in this instance, the best way to imploy horns would be at actual crossings, which could be activated with plenty of time to warn pedestrians and automobiles before the train reached the location.
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A tornado is not just wind, the fact that you can see them is either a if it drags condensation down witth them when they form (condensation funnel), or stir up dust and debris when they contact the ground. These "clouds" are actually rapidly spinning vortices (if you dont know it, look it up), that can produce winds in excess of 300 mph on the Fujita Scale (Ditto), and the stuff they can pick up and carry with them..... well, I think that about covers it.
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i heard  that sound the other night when my husband had me bent over the kitchen  cupboard.kind of  wrecked the mood for me tho
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it is LOUD, and even if your house isn't damaged, everything is vibrating.\n\n\nIt sounds a lot like a train going by right outside your window.\n\nAnd afterward, there are tree limbs and odd things lying everywhere.
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the flash of electricity is lightning... the sound that follow is thunder... storm usually occurs when lightning, thunder, strong wind and rain happen at the same time...
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Two longs, one short, one long blast on the horn for a crossing signal.  It sounds like Morse code, but is probably older.  This is one of many train horn or whistle signals.\n\nFor a more complete list of those used by the Union Pacific, see the first site below:
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there are 2 kinds Microburst and Macrobusts. They are both the same only the micro is weaker, the conditions for a microburst are the same for a tornado. Only air pressure comes down and hits the ground                                                                   and air is sort of sucked into the sky.......This happened in my hometown about a year ago, the roof on my school was lifted up about 1 foot and slammed back onto the school (just to give you a idea of the power of a MACroburst)
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Tornadoes are formed by the clashing of drasticlaly different masses of air known as fronts.  A high pressure front meets with a low pressure front and the difference in their temperatures and pressures creates a strong wind that can form into the funnel clouds known as tornadoes.  This is not to say that all colliding fronts will yield tornadoes, but there are certain elements that can increase the likeliness of a tornado forming.  The swath of the mid-west United States from N. Texas / Oklahoma through Kansas / Nebraska and into Iowa / Missouri is known as "Tornado Alley" because there are more tornados per year in this area than anywhere else in the world.
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Ever heard of May 3rd? The F5 tornado that damaged much of Oklahoma was the most awesome and yet most frightening storm I have ever seen.  Total devastation as far as you could see.
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You like tornadoes.\n\nCoach
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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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There has never been an F6 in recorded history.  No one has ever been in an F6.  For more info on the Fujita scale of Tornado Intensity, check out the website below: