What should you do if you receive significant wind damage from a thunderstorm or tornado?
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I'd also ask that you report it to your local National Weather Service office or law enforcement.  You can find your local NWS office by going to weather.gov and clicking on your area.  There should be a link somewhere for storm reports.\n\nThen, go about getting it fixed.\n\nHope it turns out alright,\nGod bless,\nShane
999822
Thunder is just noise.  The electrical charge from the lightning is what does the damage.
321345
put your faith in god......he will help you weather any storm and keep you safe..........my grandmother told me when it thundered the angels were bowling........probably strikes too
608754
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.
641866
wind blows from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
506547
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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Get an empty 2 liter soda bottle and fill it half-way with water. Hold the top and spin it in a circular motion. This will cause the water to look like a tornado.  Technicaly, a tornado is caused by a cold air mass "wedging" a warm air mass up. Another mass of air then clashes into them and causes the air to spin.
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I notice the Tropical Prediction Center issued a hurricane warning for part of Florida, though it is not quite a hurricane yet. That is standard procedure if it is expected to become a hurricane, but for tornadoes one must exist before the warning is issued.\n\nAlberto is not particularly impressive on satellite or radar images. There is nothing on the SW side because of wind shear. Yet with recon flights and winds from doppler radar, scatterometers, and microwave sounders - if there is a 65 knot wind somewhere in the storm they'll find it. So a category 1 hurricane aint what it used to be.\n\nThere will be heavy rain and severe storms associated with it. There will be very strong winds - probably hurricane force at some locations - directly along the coast S-E of the storm center. Yet there is no chance it will become anything more than a weak hurricane in a wind shear environment over oceans not particularly warm this time of year.\n\nThus people affected should definitely be prepared, but if it is hyped too much people are being setup for a strong storm some time later which they won't want to evacuate for but should.
764600
Seed clouds and start rain with the lightning.  Become a droughtbreaker.\n\nWear a lurid spandex costume.
316209
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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Wind strength, or more specifically, its effect and destructiveness.
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A tornado watch means that weather conditions are favorable for producing a tornado.  Doesn't mean that there will be one.\nA tornado warning means that a tornado has either been spotted or Doppler radar indicates the presence of a tornado.\nIn any case, you want to go down into your basement if you are inside or a central room like a bathroom and make sure to bring a flashlight and maybe even a small battery operated radio to check the weather status.\nIf you are outside or in a car, get out of the car and lay as low as possible, preferably in a ditch.  Watch for accumulating water and flash floods to avoid drowning. Do NOT go underneath a bridge, flying debris can easily strike and kill you there.\nIf inside a public building, look for the storm shelter and if no storm shelter, go to the NE corner of the building since tornadoes typically travel from SW to NE.
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Often wind damage that's blamed on tornadoes is actually done by winds coming down from a shower or thunderstorm. \nSuch "microburst" winds can reach more than 150 mph. In a tornado, the air is rising as it swirls around the vortex.\n\nIn the U.S. such microbursts are common from the Western Rockies eastward.. why? because that is where the rains are more prevalent
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Cold fronts, fast-moving jet stream, dry line, occluded front, and cold dry air moving into warm moist air will all contribute to extreme weather.  Often, in the southwest by the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma as well as New Mexico, several of these factors will occur at the same time which can result in a severe weather outburst with several tornadoes, large hail, and lots of rain.
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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.
197815
Get out with your family members and pets if at all possible.  Call 911 from a neighbors.  Lives are more important than saving a structure.
413555
hmmm,Are you breaking wind? could be the cause and effect!\nIf this condition persists see your doctor!