Is there supposed to be a Tornado in Hardin County KY?
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Check here now. http://www.emergencyemail.org/Default.asp  And sign up to get their free reports when you will have severe weather in you area. I did,it works.
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Though tornadoes can come from any direction, most often it is from the W-SW. Thus especially if the bathtub is on the SW side of the house, that wall would most likely take a direct hit. Really helps if you know which direction the tornado may come from in the particular situation - which is not entirely out of the question looking at radar maps and severe weather reports prior to it. Yet many tornaodes come with almost no warning - people briefly hear the sound, and then it hits.\n\nThe shower is in which is typically a better place (tornado takes out most of the W-S side of the house), but is surrounded by glass. Bathrooms tend to be among the less dangerous of spots, but for this case neither is probably good. I am not sure if the mattress thing will be good either. It can protect you from falling debris or possibly even trees, but unless that matress fits right inside the tub with you (i.e., does not hang out), the tornado winds could easily take it up and you with it if you continue to hold on. If there is a closet on the N-E side of the house, it may be the best - wrap stuff around you and especially your head.\n\nIf you see the tornado coming far enough ahead and there is a sewer cover that comes off, it is not out of the question to climb in and go down - so long as there is no threat it'll completely flood.\n\nTornadoes are funny.  They can leave glasses standing on a cupboard while the entire house around it is leveled.
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When I was a student pilot, my flight instructor and I were flying from McAllen, TX back to Harlingen,TX. We spotted a small tornado below and to the right of us about five miles. We watched it for several minutes and reported it to the Flight Service Station in the area. It even made the news that night. That was in 1967.
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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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If you get cable or satellite TV, you can see all you want, mostly on The Weather Channel.\n\nCheck TORNADOES entry in blog at http://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana for urls to places with lots of tornado info.  Such videos are highly sought after and dangerous to acquire, not likely to be free.  But there are many now in existence.\n\nThey have GOT to be FOR SALE somewhere, but you cannot see how good one is until you view it.\n\nDid you Google 'Tornado Videos for Sale' ???\n\nAlso try 'Kansas Tornado Videos'\n         'Oklahoma Tornado Videos'\n          'Texas Tornado Videos'\n\nThe meteorology professors must use them in class, too.\n\nTherefore, try 'Instructional Tornado Videos'
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In the midwest, the mountains to the west and the Gulf of Mexico to the south produce the layers of cool, dry air and warm, moist air, these coditions are favorable for tornado formation. These conditions happen much less often toward the coasts. Tornados aren't uncommon on the east coast though. In fact, areas hit hard with hurricanes(Gulf Coast) have tornado outbreaks too because the hurricanes produce apt conditions for formation.
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A big misconception is that tornadoes do not strike in mountains and around hills. People also believe that they do not cross water. Also it is a myth that tornadoes do not strike in big cities.\n\nWrong.Wrong.Wrong.\n\nTornadoes can strike anywhere!\n\nBe safe & get all the facts.\n\nBelow are websites that I use with my students when they create tornado safety pamphlets. They have to incorporate common myths about tornadoes.
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You can't tell by just stepping outside, unless you see a funnel cloud or something.  Tornadoes are usually created from cold fronts or occluded fronts.  You have very warm air ahead of the front, and very cool air behind it.  The difference in the air temperature pushes air up, creating an updraft.  Bottom line, tornadoes are caused by warm and cool air in the same area.  And you have to have very strong winds in the upper atmosphere.  70 to 80 mph.  That helps with the updraft.
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I heard there was one in the covington/ Abita springs area. Scary weather last night hu ?
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Technically yes there must be a storm of some kind... But the tornado isn't usually in the center of a storm usually its on the southwestern corner or side of the storm and it might not even be raining in that part of the storm, making it appear that its not in the storm.\n\nTo have a tornado you need these 2 things....\n\n1. A convective rain shower/thunderstorm\n2. Winds in the upper and middle layers of the atmosphere running Perpendicular to eachother, or the winds in the lower and middle layers. ( basically wind blowing in 2 different directions at different altitudes of the storm, like at the ground the wind be blowing from the west and up about 10,000 feet the wind blowing from the south.)\n\nThats really about it... Those dont really mean that you will get a tornado, it just that those things must be present to create a tornado.
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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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one myth could be that tornadoes occur when a small asteroid hits the atmosphere with enough rotational velocity to twist the air\n\nor that they happen when god sneezes\n\nor that there is always at least one tornado on earth at any given time
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I have been through a Tornado. We moved down into the basement. Do they have anything underground in your building? Storage or parking? I would go down as low and you can in the building and stay in a doorway.\n\nIt has been several hours since you posted, I am wondering if everything is ok now.
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because the desert hardly ever has severe weather, therefore a tornado cant destroy them. as for earthquakes, a fault line has not been discovered in the desert, but its nothing but sand.
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The definition of a tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from the base of a thunderstorm to ground level.  The circulation MUST go all the way to the ground and all the way to the cloud base.  There does not need to be a visible funnel for a tornado to occur.  The visible funnel often is the result of debris or rain being wrapped into the circulation.  This is why tornadoes come in different colors.  A tornado that moves over the red dirt of Oklahoma may take on a red hue, while one that moves over black soil may look black.  There are even "white" tornadoes, which get their tone from moisture being wrapped in.\n\nRadar is useful for determining if a thunderstorm has the necessary circulation in the mid levels to produce a tornado or that a storm COULD produce a tornado, but it can't tell if that circulation is actually on the ground.  Only human eyes can tell that.  As a result, the National Weather Service works with specially trained volunteer weather spotters through a program called SKYWARN.  These spotters are mostly volunteers, most of whom are licensed Amateur Radio operators.  These spotters monitor the storms from the field and radio reports of tornadoes or other hazardous weather to a liaison or directly to the NWS.  Some spotters also "chase" storms.  They watch the weather forecasts and may travel to areas where storms are likely to form.\n\nI'm a SKYWARN weather spotter, and have seen several tornadoes over the years.  It's a real trip to see a tornado form, move and eventually "rope out" and die.  However, it's very dangerous to get close to one (obviously!).  I was just in the right/wrong place at the time...\n\nThe sites I have listed below are ones that I have found useful over the years.  You can even get your own local weather by going to the first link (NWS) on the list and entering in your ZIP or by clicking your area on the map.\n\n*Edited to add another great link (SPC website)
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Any of the states in the region of the country referred to as Tornado Alley.\n\nThe site of most tornadoes a year aren't actually in Kansas, but in Texas and, in some years, Oklahoma...
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Natural disaster...tornado, earthquake, etc.