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Old 05-14-2007, 03:54 PM
 
Location: The Big D
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If you will notice on that map that most of the action is to the north, south and west of Dallas. To the east hardly anything.
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:09 PM
 
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thanks for the great site!
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Deep In The Heat Of Texas
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Here is an useful website that has tracked tornado paths from 1950 to 2005 (F2 and greater) onto Google Earth. You can input your zip code and see the paths on the map. What's interesting is that it emphasizes just how much area is untouched by tornadoes over the last 50+ years.

http://climate.engin.umich.edu/tornadopaths/ (broken link)

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That's a wonderful link, the best I've seen yet. Thanks a bunch. Now we can check any day of any year and see what happened anywhere in the country.

To whomever is viewing it, be sure to check out the various days and years as some years, etc. are worse than others. What pops up when you click the link is only for one day. I'm sure everyone knows that but at first, I was confused. I've been teaching math to teenagers all day, and I'm half brain dead.
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:29 PM
 
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Remember its Mother Nature, and never try to fool mother Nature.
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:38 PM
 
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To whomever is viewing it, be sure to check out the various days and years as some years, etc. are worse than others. What pops up when you click the link is only for one day. I'm sure everyone knows that but at first, I was confused. I've been teaching math to teenagers all day, and I'm half brain dead.
Once you put in your zip code, it changes to cumulative for all days, instead of a single day. It's a little confusing
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:43 PM
 
Location: WA
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... Now we can check any day of any year and see what happened anywhere in the country.
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Not really true. There is no system that will tell you there is a tornado but a human sighting. That means whenever or wherever there were not people calling in sightings there will be no record. I would not trust records in rural areas forty or more years ago... there were not that many spotters or farmers anxious to make a LD call to the authorities to report a funnel cloud that reached the ground.
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:55 PM
 
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Not really true. There is no system that will tell you there is a tornado but a human sighting. That means whenever or wherever there were not people calling in sightings there will be no record. I would not trust records in rural areas forty or more years ago... there were not that many spotters or farmers anxious to make a LD call to the authorities to report a funnel cloud that reached the ground.
That is also the thought that comes to mind when you see those supposed tornados that were on the ground for over 30 miles that happened over 40 years ago, even 20 as technology has changed. There is nothing to say that it was not in fact several twisters that were from the same storm. You'll notice most of them were in very rural areas or what once were rural areas. Not too many years ago any kind of "wind" damage was suspected to be from a tornado and it may have been classified as such especially if it happened at night. Now it is not uncommon for people to first report it was a tornado but when all things are checked out it was actually straight line winds that did the damage.
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Old 05-14-2007, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Deep In The Heat Of Texas
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Okay, I give up. I'll just go back to my first thought from 28 years ago and let it still hang with me today, "Texas has tornadoes, bad storms, hail, lightening, floods, etc. and one never knows what area will be hit next." "They may be F0s, they may be F5s and whatever there are, we can be certain they'll be somewhere in the state." And I'll be certain to be in my storm cellar when I get the urge.

I have some tornado photos of one near my home in 2000. I'll try to post them later on just for the "hail" of it.

This is cool with Dallas' zip of 75201. Maybe I should post this for futuretexan, but I guess he'll see it.

http://climate.engin.umich.edu/tornadopaths/?zip=75201 (broken link)

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Old 05-14-2007, 05:06 PM
 
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"They may be F0s, they may be F5s and whatever there are, we can be certain they'll be somewhere in the state."
And you can be certain that a trailer park will be nearby
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Old 05-14-2007, 06:12 PM
 
Location: The Big D
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And you can be certain that a trailer park will be nearby
That is it right there in a nutshell. If you don't want to be hit by a tornado then do not live in a trailer or anywhere near a trailer. For some reason they have homing devices built into them that attract tornados. Sure as anything a tornado will miss every brick house for miles around but one trailer sitting by itself in the middle of the brick homes and WHAM! It gets hit and flipped, turned over, etc.
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