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05-06-2002, 11:39 AM
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DURKA DURKA!!
Join Date: Sep 1997
Location: Lubbock, TX...(TX panhandle)
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No joke. The fasted recorded wind speed had been taken in Arkansas at 286 mph.
The tornado that hit Oklahoma city on May 3, 1999 had sustained wind speeds of 318 mph +/- 10 mph. This puts it one mph below the F-6 ranking on the Fujita scale....no tornado has ever been ranked an F-6. This type of storm pulls the pavement off the ground, completely removes houses, and even pulls foundations out of the ground. There are small, localized wind vortices within such storms in which sheer wind speeds may exceed 350-400 mph. The negative pressure caused by such storms can do some crazy ****. One such storm went through the ranch country of South Texas in an open area. The rancher went out after the storm to find his cattle dead, completely stripped of their skin but not dismembered. That is crazy ****. No storm shelter is going to help you out if one of those monsters comes by. --nathan
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