High Tor-Con Values for Some of Our Members

Gearing up for Day 2. :( Tornado on the ground in Posey Co. Indiana now. I won't keep naming them all, but Ryan is live again, and gets the warnings, watches, etc. as soon as they happen. Once again, stay safe, everyone.

 

I figured Tor-Con must have something to do with tornadoes but I've never heard of that index, though I guess meteorologists I watch every day are using it for their forecasts. There were severe warnings for parts of the U.S. for today and tomorrow. Like you...hoping that everyone in the predicted path of the tornadoes will not be hit and will remain safe.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I figured Tor-Con must have something to do with tornadoes but I've never heard of that index, though I guess meteorologists I watch every day are using it for their forecasts. There were severe warnings for parts of the U.S. for today and tomorrow. Like you...hoping that everyone in the predicted path of the tornadoes will not be hit and will remain safe.
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Tor-Con was used exclusively on the Weather Channel for years, @OneEyedDiva ... it was the brainchild of Dr. Greg Forbes when he was a meteorologist there. Then he retired the Tor-Con system (or maybe HE retired, can't remember.) Tor-Con wasn't used for a while but people wanted it back so they're using it now again.
 

Della said:
We lived in Fairborn, just a few miles from Xenia, when the big one hit. Afterward, people from Xenia moved into our townhouse complex and, for a few years, they would all be hiding in their basements at the least hint of bad weather. Poor things. The day it happened I set out with my son to walk him to kindergarten and something about the weather, the silence and stillness, made me turn him around and go home.

The Xenia tornado 1974:

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The still before the storm is eerie. The birds all fly away. The silence is spooky. Thinking and praying for you all.
 
CallMeKate said:
There are currently 7 tornado warnings.... not watches. :cry: A few touchdowns have already been confirmed...
and it will be getting worse as nightfall approaches.
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The only news I watch is on GMA and World News Tonight (ABC) via Hulu so I get the news a few hours later. Therefore, I haven't seen the reports yet. The devastation is always astonishing and heartwrenching!
 
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I live in Northeastern Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains. Tornados are not supposed to like my area, nor the mountains. But nobody told the tornados. About ten years ago, we got a "F- nothing" tornado, which uprooted a large swath of the forest a couple of miles from me. It was technically a tornado, but the destruction wasn't "technical"- the trees were down. So I can imagine when real high F tornados touch down.
 

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