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Offline edpnjax

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FL Tornados
« on: February 02, 2007, 11:18:26 AM »
Hey Ocala.... You guys OK down there after last night?
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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2007, 11:53:55 AM »
Very interesting GR2 screen capture I got yesterday:

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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2007, 03:21:23 PM »
Whew! Yeah Emmett, we came through it ok. Couple trees down and a lot of limbs but other then a damaged fence we got lucky.
Man that's twice inside of a month I had tornado's less then 10 miles away.
Unfortunately as you've already seen there were a lot of people not so lucky.
I got up at 2:45AM to go to work and saw one hell of a storm. We were on the northern fringes of that cell that spawned the tornado but I wasn't about to venture out in that. Had a gust to 42 but it pretty much stayed between 30 and 40 mph the whole time. Don't see that too often.
 Once again we got lucky. Very lucky
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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2007, 05:13:35 PM »
Glad to hear it!!!! Just wanted to check in on ya....   :wink:
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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2007, 07:30:11 PM »
Quote from: "ocala"
Whew! Yeah Emmett, we came through it ok. ...


Glad your OK.  I checked your webpage before I went to bed about 2:00am and seen you had a 30mph or so gust registered at that time.  Looked like you was just getting winds off the edge of it by the radar at that time.  At least that's what I was hoping.   :shock:
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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2007, 10:35:03 AM »
I'm happy to see that the media is beginning to realize they can be a driving force promoting NOAA Weather Radio and their ability to save lives.

At least 1 news outlet (CNN) did a piece featuring a retired couple caught in the Florida twister who were alerted in plenty of time to take cover thanks to their Midland NOAA Weather Radio.

Kudos to CNN for promoting the fact that inexpensive NOAA Weather Radio receivers can mean the difference between life and death. I hope more news outlets - including the Weather Channel - take opportunities to let folks know we have a good system in place that can save lives when severe weather strikes. Even in the middle of the night!

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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2007, 07:06:52 PM »
Preliminary report from the Melbourne NWSO on the Feb 1st tornado's.


PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
 615 PM EST SAT FEB 3 2007
 
 ...THE LATEST FIELD REPORT FROM BOTH THE LAKE COUNTY AND VOLUSIA
 COUNTY SURVEY TEAMS REGARDING YESTERDAYS KILLER TORNADO EVENT...
 
 ...DAMAGE SURVEYS NOW INDICATE THAT AT LEAST THREE TORNADOES ARE
 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION...  
 
 A PRELIMINARY STORM SURVEY CONTINUES IN BOTH LAKE AND VOLUSIA
 COUNTIES WHERE EXPERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAMS ARE
 ASSESSING THE DEVASTATION. THE LATEST REPORT FROM THE LAKE COUNTY
 TEAM IS THAT THE TORNADO WHICH RIPPED THROUGH THE VILLAGES AND LADY
 LAKE WAS HIGH END EF-3 WITH WINDS OF 155 TO 160 MPH. THE FIRST OF
 THREE TORNADOES INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN IN SUMTER COUNTY NEAR
 WILDWOOD AND THE VILLAGES AND THEN CROSSED OVER INTO LAKE COUNTY TO
 STRIKE LADY LAKE WHERE THE FIRST EVENT FATALITIES OCCURRED.
 CURRENTLY...THERE ARE SIX KNOWN FATALITIES IN THE LADY LAKE AREA.
 
 THE VILLAGES/LADY LAKE TORNADO...TORNADO NUMBER 1...HAS BEEN
 CLASSIFIED AS AN EF-3 TORNADO WHICH CAUSED DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES
 WHERE MOST WALLS COLLAPSED EXCEPT FOR THEIR INTERIOR ROOMS...AS WELL
 AS LARGE TREES BECAME DEBARKED WITH ONLY THE STUBS OF THE LARGEST
 BRANCHES REMAINING. MOBILE HOMES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. THIS
 TORNADO WAS ONE-QUARTER MILE WIDE DURING ITS MOST FIERCE MOMENTS.
 THE TORNADO LIFTED EAST OF LADY LAKE WITH AN APPROXIMATE PATH LENGTH
 OF ABOUT 15 MILES. THE TORNADO STRUCK LADY LAKE AT 320 AM.
 AGAIN...SIX KNOWN FATALITIES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TORNADO.  
 
 THE LAKE MACK/DELAND TORNADO...TORNADO NUMBER 2...WAS ALSO HIGH END
 EF-3 WITH WINDS OF 160 TO 165 MPH. IT WAS ALSO ONE-QUARTER MILE
 WIDE. IT RESULTED IN COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF MOBILE HOMES...AND
 CAUSED LARGE TREES TO BECOME DEBARKED. THE ESTIMATED TORNADO WINDS
 NEAR LAKE MACK PEAKED AT 165 MPH WHICH RESULTED IN 11
 FATALITIES...AND 150 TO 155 MPH WINDS AT FOREST DRIVE AND STATE ROAD
 44 WHICH RESULTED IN 3 MORE FATALITIES. A TOTAL OF 14 KNOWN
 FATALITIES OCCURRED WITH THIS DEADLY TORNADO. THE TORNADO CONTINUED
 ACROSS THE COUNTY LINE NEAR HONTOON ISLAND...CROSSING INTO VOLUSIA
 COUNTY...AND STRIKING DELAND AS A HIGH END EF-2 TORNADO WITH WINDS
 OF 130 TO 135 MPH AS REPORTED BY THE VOLUSIA COUNTY TEAM. IT WAS
 ONE-EIGHTH MILE WIDE AND LIFTED EAST OF INTERSTATE 4 NEAR THE
 VOLUSIA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS. THE PATH LENGTH WAS APPROXIMATELY 22
 MILES. THE TORNADO STRUCK LAKE MACK AT 348 AM AND DELAND AT 402 AM.
 
 THE NEW SMYRNA BEACH/PONCE INLET TORNADO...TORNADO NUMBER THREE...
 HAS BEEN INITIALLY RATED AS AN EF-1 TORNADO WITH WINDS OF 100 TO 105
 MPH. THE TORNADO UPLIFTED ROOFS ON MANY STRUCTURES...CAUSING A
 SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF ROOFING MATERIAL...THE COLLAPSE OF CHIMNEYS...
 AND COLLAPSING GARAGE DOORS. ADDITIONAL DAMAGE OCCURRED TO PORCHES
 AND CAR PORTS. THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST EAST OF INTERSTATE 95
 NORTH OF HIGHWAY 44 IN NEW SMYRNA BEACH AND MOVED THROUGH PONCE
 INLET. THE PATH LENGTH IS ABOUT 5 MILES. THE TORNADO STRUCK PONCE
 INLET AT 427 AM.
 
 THIS STATEMENT IS ONLY AN INITIAL REPORTING FROM THE SURVEY TEAMS.
 IN THE COMING DAYS...CONSIDERABLE EFFORT WILL BE INVESTED TO ENSURE
 THAT THIS HISTORICAL EVENT IS ACCURATELY DOCUMENTED.    
 
 A WORD ABOUT THE NEW ENHANCED FUJITA (EF) TORNADO SCALE...THE
 EF-SCALE WAS DEVELOPED TO BETTER ASSESS WIND SPEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH
 A WIDE VARIETY OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE...FROM SINGLE-WIDE MOBILE HOMES
 TO INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS TO FRAMED ONE OR TWO FAMILY HOMES...AND MANY
 MORE.  THIS SCALE IS CONSIDERED A DAMAGE SCALE...WHEREAS THE
 TRADITIONAL FUJITA SCALE (F-SCALE) WAS MORE OF A WIND SPEED SCALE.
 
 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE NEW EF-SCALE...PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING
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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2007, 03:08:23 PM »
One final note. Of the 20 people killed all lived in mobile homes. Gee who would have thought.
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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2007, 03:18:47 PM »
Mobile homes should somehow be constructed better to help prevent all the chaos people go through in them when bad weather comes there way. I guess it's affordable living for folks who can't afford it but puts them in danger when stuff like this happens. Most or all of the mobile homes were ripped from there foundation when hurricane Charley came through in Punta Gorda. I remember seeing a lot of them with only a toilet left.  :shock:

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Re: FL Tornados
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2007, 03:35:44 PM »
If they were built better they would cost more and they wouldn't be a feasible alternative for those looking for low cost housing. When I moved to Ocala I lived in one for about 2 months. All I can say is cheap, cheap, cheap. Just a glorified cardboard box is all they are.
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