Beavercreek tornado

[IDtheftV]

Originally Posted by blue j

Wow...I didn't think that a tornado that relatively small in area (I had heard it was 70 yards wide, on the ground) could pack that much of a punch. It does seem like 105 MPH would probably not be enough to pick up vehicles and toss them around like that, but I'm not really sure.

Yup. EF1 is something that would knock you off your feet at 105 mph, but EF3 has 150 or so winds, which rips off bricks. If it could flip a car, it could flip a person over a building - ouch.

Going from 105 to 157.5 mph basically triples the force of that wind.

I wouldn't want to cross paths with any funnel 70 yards wide. My Dust-Devil experiences mentioned above were on the order of 3-4 yards wide. Any more than that would stop being fun.

[blue j]

Originally Posted by hensleya1

As the other posters commented already, the damage was consistent with something stronger than an EF1, however briefly, in the parking lot. By the time the tornado had reached the subdivision behind the shopping center, it had weakened... thankfully. It apparently messed up a few trees and took the roof off at least one house, but nobody was injured back there.

I'm not from Ohio, so tornadoes are an unfamiliar thing to me. Kinda striking when you remember that something like this can hit anywhere, in our case with almost no warning. If you look at the Greene's security cameras that captured the tornado on tape you can see cars driving through the Greene just minding their own business... Nobody would have known until the tornado was on top of them.

Also I echo CP in welcoming blue j and luv my dayton to the board. Sometimes it gets slow around here, so we'd love to have new faces

Thank you!

You say you aren't from Ohio- where are you from, originally? I think you've at least been in the Dayton area for a little while, based on posts of yours that I've seen.

[hensleya1]

Originally Posted by blue j

Thank you!

You say you aren't from Ohio- where are you from, originally? I think you've at least been in the Dayton area for a little while, based on posts of yours that I've seen.

Moved here about four years ago from Kentucky to attend UD's law school. Now as the job search is pending, I may be in Dayton for a while.

[weatherphotographer]

Originally Posted by blue j

i work south of town but i live in beavercreek, and i was heading north on 675, on my usual commute home...passing through at the kettering/indian ripple exit at about 5:30, all three northbound lanes came to a stop. I thought it was because of an accident or something. And then when i got up over the little slope where the overpass is, i noticed that up ahead, all three southbound lanes were also all backed up. But there was no accident. I didn't know what was going on...there were a few little tree branches and leaves on the road, but it didn't look like anything more than a nasty thunderstorm had passed through, maybe. I didn't find out until i got home an was watching the local news that it was a bigger deal than that (and even then it was very early on, and we didn't have the hindsight about it that we have even right now, because of course it had just happened, relatively speaking).

If i had passed through there about fifteen minutes earlier, it might have run right into me!



This is my first post here...nice to see a few people i recognize already, from the now-defunct dhbo message board. I look forward to participating more, too.

dhbo?

[weatherphotographer]

Originally Posted by blue j

Good to see you as well, LMD...

The Colony Apartments, was that the tornado that we talked about sometime back that happened in Kettering (and Beavercreek), in May of 1969? Or has there been another more recently than that? (I don't know if those apartments went by that name back then, or if they had even been built, at that time). True, it is almost the exact same area.

Those apartments at Wilmington and David also got nailed, according to Tornadohistoryproject.org . Apparently 1969 is the "Forgotten" tornado. I have heard a few stories from some AMS members, but its just not a topic of conversation. 1974 Xenia pretty much trumps anything, really.

[blue j]

Originally Posted by weatherphotographer

dhbo?

Yep.