#EF-4 Tornado

[raychelsnr]

Monster EF-4 Tornado Near Solomon, Kansas!

Sometimes a storm chase is completely and utterly unexpected in what it produces. On this day, there was a weak MCV in northern Kansas but no other real indications that something incredibly powerful could take shape. In fact, the best tornado risk on this day was shaded south in southern Kansas. Still, Titans Eugene Theiszen and Jason Caster waited patiently in northern Kansas near Solomon as a…

[beardedmrbean]

A Tennessee couple and their two children are seeking a new home after a large tornado ripped through their community and swept up their 4-month-old child, who was found alive in a nearby tree following the tragedy.

Sydney Moore, her boyfriend and their children were inside their home last Saturday in Clarksville when the EF-3 tornado, which left six people dead and more than two dozen injured, touched down in Montgomery County.

Moore said the tornado, which destroyed the couple's mobile home and other belongings, picked up her 4-month-old child, who managed to survive the horrific event.

"Something in me just told me to run and jump on top of my son," Moore told Nashville's WSMV News of her efforts to protect her eldest child, a 1-year-old. "The moment I jumped on him, the walls collapsed."

Recalling what exactly happened that evening, Moore told the outlet that her boyfriend could see the tornado envelop their home before it was ripped to shreds and the baby's bassinet was picked up.

"The roof came off first, the tip of the tornado came down and picked up the bassinet with our baby," she said. "He was the first thing to go up."

Moore said her boyfriend lunged to rescue the baby and ended up getting thrown out of the home along with the infant, who was asleep at the time.

"He was just holding on to the bassinet the whole time, and they went into circles," Moore recalled.

Despite the circumstances, Moore said she and her family were able to escape from the debris and search for their baby, all while fearing the worst.

After about 10 minutes of searching, Moore said she and her boyfriend found the baby alive in a tree that had fallen in the rain.

"I thought he was dead," she said. "I was pretty sure he was dead and we weren’t going to find him. But he’s here, and that’s by the grace of God."

"I will die for my kids. That’s not even a question, and my boyfriend would do the same thing," Moore added.

Moore and her family were left with little to no personal belongings after the tragic incident, but the community has reportedly rallied to support the young couple and their children by providing them with formula, diapers and other necessities.

Now, nearly a week after the couple faced the tornado head-on, the family is searching for a new home.

A member of Moore's family has also established a GoFundMe to help the family rebuild and buy necessary items for themselves and their children.

Moore's sister, Caitlyn, wrote in the GoFundMe listing that Moore and her children "came out with minor cuts and bruises" after the tornado destroyed their home. Moore's boyfriend, however, according to the GoFundMe listing, "suffered a broken arm/shoulder."

"This disaster has affected more than just this family, so I would like to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone affected," Moore's sister added in the fundraiser's listing.

[sunflowersareonfire]

I’d like to say that this is me in a tornado:

But really I’m:

Seriously though, EF-4 just blew right past me like Eminem when he dissed Will Smith. So here’s to hoping the rest of the night is calm.

[nostalgic-doodles]

This is an old piece of artwork I created last year. It tells the story about the true story of me surviving the 2011 Super Outbreak and how I felt as an eleven-year-old.

I remember school being let out early on the day hell was unleashed on my home state. I remember my dad speeding home from work to get us all in the car so we can go over to a storm shelter. I remember watching the infamous EF-4 tornado slam into Tuscaloosa. I remember being terrified and crying when our weather radio went off and a tornado warning was issued. I remember panicking and thinking that if a tornado did hit us, it would suck the door out of the shelter like in the movie, Twister. I remember being relieved when our hometown was spared from being hit by a tornado. I remember April 27, 2011 like it was yesterday.

[honeysucklepink]

I'll sometimes get concerned texts and messages when there's severe storms and tornadoes in my state, so this is just a check-in...I'm fine, but Rolling Fork got leveled (fun fact: it's considered the birthplace of the Teddy Bear cause it's where Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a baby bear while hunting), Winona lost among other things the substation that powers the ballpark, and therefore baseball tournament Hubs was supposed to work at got canceled. And a big part of Amory got hit including possibly the high school. I'd be surprised if it wasn't at least an EF-4. Lots of people killed and injured, I'll see if there's any donation links I can post later.

[dark-elf-writes]

I also live in the Midwest and one time (back when my parents cared about tornado warnings) my sister and I were in the basement listening to blown away and she started crying bc she thought listening to the song made the tornado happen.

Bro when I was fifteen ish I think a big tornado (EF 4) touched down a couple cities over while we were in school and I was in photography class at the time so we were all in the dark room me (too young for the class and no one knew due to an admin fuck up) and like six juniors and seniors. One of the girls started loudly praying and another was crying and I… was reading fanfiction.

[scienter]

What's with all the tornados in southern New England this summer? I was under a tornado warning yesterday with a storm that spawned FOUR tornados (including EF 2). Adding these 4 tornados to the previous 4 we've had in Massachusetts this summer put us at 8. This is bizarre. We usually get 2 tornados a year. And they're usually EF 0s. What is going on?

Although, now that I think about it the bizarre weather / natural disasters have occurred all over the US this summer. Vermont was hit with biblical flooding. Hawaii was hit with apocalyptic wildfires. The southwest is dealing with record-breaking heat. There's a Category 4 Hurricane/Tropical Storm heading toward southern California. Is this all just climate change? Probably.

[ms-hells-bells]

we've had 4+ tornados hit towns in nz over three days, what a weird outbreak. luckily no one has been killed, but homes have been destroyed and a few people injured.

a tornado in tasman, a tornado or two in auckland, a tornado in taranaki, and a tornado in kapiti coast. earlier this year there has also been two tornados in the bay of plenty (well, one was actually twin land spouts that started as water spouts, but both came to shore and ripped up some houses).

and more tornados are likely to occur in the next couple days. big thunderstorms with 3000 lightning strikes an hour have hit in the past 24 hours. more upcoming for the next few days, including MORE flooding risk. the only lucky thing is that because supercells are rare here, most tornados are not from supercells, but from a basic thunderstorm formation that just has an unusually strong updraft (nowhere near US level), and so they're a lot weaker than american ones, only ef 0-1. but that's still enough to kill people in its direct path.

[raymondshields]

ayo all 5 seasons of Storm Chasers is on Youtube for free so like. if u want Tornado Time. it's there

(From my email inbox and my own tweet reply from earlier today.)

Delighted to tell you I am Already Aware of that show, although I haven't sat down and watched it in full because I've had zero time. Mostly when it's Tornado Time I run through my favourite Pecos Hank videos, or I find every single video that's ever done coverage of the El Reno 2013 EF-5. Skip Talbot did a two hour panel on it that was recorded and I've watched it several times.

Mind you, the fact I could identify Ivey's run with the TIV2 on a single screenshot of a video reposted twice without even reading the credit watermark is probably impressive.

Did you know that thing was more or less an armoured jeep, with hydraulic spikes that drove several feet into the ground to keep it from being flung? They lost two doors and most of the antennae and other recording equipment on top to that EF-4 in the video. Given that they lost the doors, and as my tweet says that was actual sheet metal across the windshield, it's a miracle neither of them died.

I dug up Ivey's original tweet about it way back when, quote-tweeted it just to remark on his steel balls, and the fucker liked my quote tweet within the day. Bro.

I wholly, 100% recommend Pecos Hank (Hank Schyma)'s channel for good tornado content, he's also a sweetheart with animals and absolutely understands that the moment the tornadoes are gone, stormchasers are now first responders. He's got a few videos pretty much entirely on rescuing people from debris and reporting to authorities that there's tornadoes on the ground.

Skip Talbot's great, much as I think he looks like baby Josh Hutcherson. Reed Timmer's aight, although I think he's a bit on the loud-streamer side personally. Dr. Anton Seimon's a treat whenever you can catch his footage on Youtube. Brandon Ivey has less of a Youtube presence than the others, but he also lets people do tours with him, which is a great way to see tornadoes and also Not Get In The Way Of The Actual Chasers.

But also like, catch y'all in a few days to a few weeks when Hank's done with the outbreak he put in my email and has the videos out for it. I've seen some lovely footage off twitter from the locals, can't wait to see the professional stuff on youtube.

To end things off, heavy heavy reminder to not chase tornadoes yourself. If you are not a chaser, get the fuck off the roads, and if you have safe shelter, get the fuck into your shelter. Tornadoes are lethal. Just because you're moving faster than it is doesn't mean you can deal with them pulling u-turns, swelling, and throwing trees and semis in your way. If you cannot identify the RFD in a matter of seconds, then you are in the way of actual chasers and you need to get the fuck off the road and into shelter. If you want to be there that bad, pay them to let you ride in the backseat and let them drive. You are probably not a scientist, these people are, and if things turn south (or north, I guess, most tornadoes don't track south) that's how you get people killed.

And now I must go to bed before I end up watching a ton of tornado videos all night when I have shit to do tomorrow. F in chat. Tornado time should be Always.

[raychelsnr]

Would you keep driving??

[the-sayuri-rin]

President Joe Biden on Sunday approved disaster relief for Mississippi, making funding available to those impacted by the severe storms that battered the state on Friday night.

Federal funds will be available to government, tribal and other agencies in Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the White House said in a statement.

The severe tornado that tore through Rolling Fork, Mississippi, late Friday was assigned a rating of EF-4, a classification that marks it as a rare and powerful storm.

[meret118]

The U.S. experiences about 80% to 90% of all of the tornadoes that occur across the world.

About 1,200 tornadoes hit the U.S. each year, the National Severe Storms Laboratory said.

Tornadoes are rated from EF-0 (light damage) to EF-5 (incredible damage) based on a list of damage indicators.

. . .

However, the peak tornado season for the southern Plains (Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas) is from May into early June, NOAA said. And along the Gulf Coast, it is earlier in the spring. In the northern Plains and upper Midwest (North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota), tornado season is in June or July. 

Overall, there is a general northward shift in tornado season in the U.S. from late winter through midsummer.

Tornadoes can also happen at any time of day or night, but most tornadoes occur from 4–9 p.m.

. . .

If you are at home during a tornado warning, go to your basement, safe room or an interior room away from windows. If you're outside, seek shelter inside a sturdy building immediately if a tornado is approaching.

If you're in a vehicle, the best course of action is to drive to the closest shelter. If you are unable to make it to a safe shelter, either get down in your car and cover your head or abandon your car and seek shelter in a low-lying area such as a ditch or ravine.

. . .

A tornado watch means weather conditions are ripe for tornadoes to form. A warning means one has been spotted or indicated on radar.

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Do not get under an overpass during a tornado! They became a popular after video of a news team hiding under one made the rounds. In reality, winds increase under overpasses during tornadoes. The tornado in the video was weak, and the people were just lucky.

[voregrunt]

It’s genuinely terrifying how the atmosphere can come together and unleash hell on earth so to speak, this was the tornado probability for April 27 2011, 292 tornadoes touched down 15 of them being extremely violent Besides the march 18 outbreak of 1925 this was the deadliest super outbreak, the deadliest super outbreak was 1974 11 Ef 4’s 4 EF 5’s

[kornkidd]

Posted @withrepost • @tornado_outbreak2 This was the Greensburg, KS EF5 tornado on May 4, 2007. This was the first EF5 on the EF scale. 95% of Greensburg was destroyed. Photo: James Ladue. #tornado #tornadoes #tornados #tornadowatch #tornadowarning #tornadoseason #tornadoalley #twister #supercell #thunderstorm #severeweather #weather #storm #storms #stormchasing #photogenic #kansas https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMls7gvrMn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[usafphantom2]

Problems with ejectable seats suspend Eurofighter fighter flights

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 07/23/2022 - 08:09 AM in Military

Eurofighter Typhoon fighter and the Red Arrows' Hawk T1 jets.

The air forces of Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain temporarily suspended all non-essential flights with their Eurofighter Typhoon after the manufacturer of the ejectable seats, Martin-Baker Company, informed operators about a technical problem in hunting.

The German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Spanish Air Force (Ejercito del Aire) and the British Royal Air Force (RAF) announced that the necessary operational flights, for example, as part of alarm squadrons or air policing missions, would continue to be carried out. The other Eurofighter nations Austria, Italy, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have not yet made any public statements on the possible suspension of flight operations. The Martin-Baker Mk16A-EF seats are installed in the Eurofighters.

Initially, flight operations with the Tornado fighter were suspended in the Luftwaffe and flight operations with the Hawk T1 of the Red Arrows acrobatic team in the RAF, but both types were reported again operational after a short period of time, because their ejectable seats ?? were not affected.

Martin-Baker informed its customers that some launch cartridges of certain batches of ejectable seat production ?? may not have been filled out correctly. As a result, the safe use of ejectable seats ?? It may not be possible. Now, all cartridges from these production batches must be removed and checked.

It is not yet known when the temporary grounding of the Eurofighters will be suspended. The British company Martin-Baker has been manufacturing aircraft crew seats for more than 70 years. According to the manufacturer, more than 17,000 ejectable seats ?? are currently installed on the aircraft. So far, the ejectable seats ?? The company saved the lives of 7,677 cabin crew members.

Tags: Military AviationEjército del Aire/Spain Air ForceEurofighter TyphoonLuftwaffe - German Air ForceMartin-bakerRAF - Royal Air Force/Royal Air Force

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Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in a specialized aviation magazine in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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