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A tornado of the Royal Air Force collided with a squadron of German Alphas Jets of the Jagdbombergeschwader 43 division.
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* 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
During the April 13 – 15, 2012 tornado outbreak, a tornado struck Wichita on April 14 on the southeast side of Wichita, destroying numerous residences and damaging Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing, Kansas Aviation Museum, McConnell Air Force Base, Hawker Beechcraft.
However, radio stations and networks could interrupt normal programming and issue a bulletin in the event of an emergency, as happened during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as well as the first successful tornado warning near Tinker Air Force Base in 1948.
Portions of Midwest City particularly northwest of Tinker Air Force Base sustained extreme damage from a violent tornado that swept through the southern and eastern areas of the Oklahoma City Metro on May 3, 1999.
A devastating tornado hit the north and northwest portions of Wichita Falls along with Sheppard Air Force Base during the afternoon of April 3, 1964 leaving 7 dead, more than 100 injured and causing roughly $ 15 million in property damage ( approximately 225 homes and businesses ).
The first official tornado forecast ( and tornado warning ) was made by United States Air Force Capt.
The tornado tore through Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Moore, Del City, Tinker Air Force Base and Midwest City, Oklahoma, causing $ 1. 1 billion in damage.
The term " tornado alley " was first used in 1952 by U. S. Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest J. Fawbush ( 1915-1982 ) and Captain Robert C. Miller ( 1920-1998 ) as the title of a research project to study severe weather in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
In 1948 two Air Force weather officers issued the first tornado warning.
The station bootlegged a Tornado Forecast from Tinker Air Force Base ( which was first produced in 1948 ), in order to warn people of a tornado in the Oklahoma City area.
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Audubon writes that while on horseback he believed the distant rumbling to be that of a tornado, “ but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice.
The entire state is vulnerable to a tornado strike, with the extreme southern portion of the state slightly less so than the rest of the state.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
A tornado is " a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often ( but not always ) visible as a funnel cloud ".
For a vortex to be classified as a tornado, it must be in contact with both the ground and the cloud base.
A period of several successive days with tornado outbreaks in the same general area ( spawned by multiple weather systems ) is a tornado outbreak sequence, occasionally called an extended tornado outbreak.
A tornado with a nearly cylindrical profile and relative low height is sometimes referred to as a " stovepipe " tornado.
In the top picture, the tornado is lit with the sunlight focused from behind the camera, thus the funnel appears bluish.
A tornado which is " back-lit " ( viewed with the sun behind it ) appears very dark.
The same tornado, viewed with the sun at the observer's back, may appear gray or brilliant white.
On rare occasions, anticyclonic tornadoes form in association with the mesoanticyclone of an anticyclonic supercell, in the same manner as the typical cyclonic tornado, or as a companion tornado either as a satellite tornado or associated with anticyclonic eddies within a supercell.
The winds of the tornado vortex and of constituent turbulent eddies, as well as airflow interaction with the surface and debris, contribute to the sounds.
Unlike audible signatures, tornadic signatures have been isolated ; due to the long distance propagation of low-frequency sound, efforts are ongoing to develop tornado prediction and detection devices with additional value in understanding tornado morphology, dynamics, and creation.
A landspout, or dust-tube tornado, is a tornado not associated with a mesocyclone.
A gustnado, or gust front tornado, is a small, vertical swirl associated with a gust front or downburst.
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43 people were killed in a tornado outbreak from April 14 – 16.
An F2 tornado that touched down in Sibley County at 6: 43 pm killed one person and also injured 175 others.
Around this time, a Tornado Warning was issued for Madison County to give residents on the northwest side of the county an opportunity to take cover ; tornado sirens were activated at 5: 43 p. m., one minute after the warning was issued.
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In 1953, a freak tornado blew down one of the original trees at Haggerston ( the other original five trees still survive ), on which the research division of the Forestry Commission started developing additional hybrids.
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The basement or belowground shelters also will serve for tornado or hurricane protection.
* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
* 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1, 300, injuring 12, 000, and leaving as many as 80, 000 homeless.
* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
* 1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
* 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
* 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
* 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
* 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
* 1979 – Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
* 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
In July 2005 Balsall Heath was hit by a tornado, which devastated many buildings around Church Road and Ladypool Road.
These storms can be severe, and the state usually averages one tornado per year.
The fences looked like a cyclone ( tornado ) had hit them.
Severe weather is uncommon in the Chicago area, though there have been some exceptions such as the F4 tornado that devastated the south side of the city on April 21, 1967.
* 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
While situated squarely in the path of Tornado Alley no devastating tornado has ever touched down in Davenport.
* 1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U. S. history.
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