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Old 04-12-2010, 05:06 AM
 
Location: AZ
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They are in MN too....
Well there are tornadoes, floods, etc in MN as well, but I haven't seen those. (Because I've lived in Duluth my whole life, and we never have gotten either IN Duluth )And I've never heard of a microburst before this. Interesting though, I'll have to keep my eye out for one in Arizona. Are they relatively common?
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Old 04-12-2010, 04:10 PM
 
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google microburst for more info....

they are deadly when they occur....a commercial plane was brought down in Dallas several years ago when it flew into one just before landing....extreme downdrafts coming out of a thunderstorm....before the Dallas crash, little was known about them
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Old 04-12-2010, 04:54 PM
 
Location: Tokyo (but will always be) Phoenix, Az
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Well there are tornadoes, floods, etc in MN as well, but I haven't seen those. (Because I've lived in Duluth my whole life, and we never have gotten either IN Duluth )And I've never heard of a microburst before this. Interesting though, I'll have to keep my eye out for one in Arizona. Are they relatively common?
Really only during the summer monsoons. When they come they can cause a lot of damage to loose objects. Scraps of metal, garbage cans, basketball hoops, rocks, and just about anything else loose will go flying. We actually had one microburst send hords of rocks into a mailvan and put a few dents in the car and broke like 2 windows. Another took down our front yard tree that fell onto our pathway and house. They can be powerful enough to shatter windows but it's not a tornado. Most people get confused with a tornado and a microburst because it occurs so quickly, rips across the landscape, then fades. Keep a watchful eye during our monsoon storms, when you see a huge dark wall of rain headed for you chances are it is capable of producing a microburst or microbusts.
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Old 04-12-2010, 05:11 PM
 
Location: oklahoma city
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it sounds scary and cool all at the same time. ive never of them before either, i guess we dont get then here in OK.
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