Freaky Fact About Tornados

fmdog44

fmdog44

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I have the local news on now and the weather expert just said a tornado can push documents as high as 30-40,000 feet into the atmosphere. So after the tornado passes people can expect 8 1/2 X 11 pieces of paper floating down from the sky. Now the latest storm is said to have traveled 200-240 miles across land. Imagine finding paperwork from two states away landing in your yard!
 

There is one news story, from Kentucky, about a family photograph of a grandmother taken in the 1940's, being found in Indiana after the tornado.
Probably hundreds of these stories ....
 
we had an old farm woman who lived in my home town. one year she saw the tornado comin and tried to run for the ditch. they found her in pieces the next day.

tornadoes can pick up a car and set it back down upright. they deserve respect when they are in your area.
 
We lived in Wichita, KS., for about 4 years...in the late '60's. Every year we had to make a mad dash for the tornado shelter at least 3 or 4 times. The closest one came to us was when it hit a department store about a mile away....the next morning, there was all sorts of "merchandise" all over our area. We were sure glad when the company moved me to Kansas City....Wichita, back then seemed like "ground zero".
 
A tornado can ruin your whole day. One took off part of our roof back in 1991. It took months to get it all repaired and sorted out.

It was spooky to open the hatch to the attic and see the sky where there should have been roof.
 
I was part of the aftermath cleanup of the 1974 toronado that hit the western part of Cincinnati.

We found a car [black & white Ford Falcon] up side down in a culvert , it had kentucky tags.
We turned it over, thankfully there was no one in it. The police ran the tag, and indeed the car was in Kentucky when the storm hit ....... I forget the name of the town, but the car was carried over 20 miles across the river {Ohio} and dropped on the Ohio side ...... Unfreakinbelievable !
 
Don M. said:
We lived in Wichita, KS., for about 4 years...in the late '60's. Every year we had to make a mad dash for the tornado shelter at least 3 or 4 times. The closest one came to us was when it hit a department store about a mile away....the next morning, there was all sorts of "merchandise" all over our area. We were sure glad when the company moved me to Kansas City....Wichita, back then seemed like "ground zero".
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there's a swath through kansas where they travel mostly.
 
We're supposed to have 80MPH winds in the Denver area tomorrow. That's hurricane force winds. There will no doubt be trees down all over the place if we actually do get winds that strong.

I brought in some things that might get blown away. The trash cans are still on the side of the house. Maybe I should stick them in the garage, just in case.
 
fmdog44 said:
So after the tornado passes people can expect 8 1/2 X 11 pieces of paper floating down from the sky. Now the latest storm is said to have traveled 200-240 miles across land. Imagine finding paperwork from two states away landing in your yard!
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It happened:

Kentucky tornadoes: Lost photos found 140 miles away​

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59667108
 

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