Posted by 4play on April 02, 2014 at 21:49:20 from (68.228.168.127):
In Reply to: Tornadoes posted by Mark W. on April 02, 2014 at 08:50:13:
I've been close to a few smaller tornados and a couple huge ones. The two I remember most are F5's. May 3rd Tornado that came through Moore, Ok in 1999. I was 1/2 mile away from that tornado when it went by. The pressure change, silence, wind change and then noise was amazingly impressive, then the smell of pine and nat gas afterward in demolished neighborhood. I was on the North side if its track so i was positioned in the in-flow side. The wind going into the tornado at 1/4 mile away was pulling grass out of the ground. In the direct path of this tornado it was pulling side walks and driveways up, houses were condensed to foundations only.
The second one last year, another F5, on May 19th again through Moore. I wasn't real close to this one, my house was almost a mile away so I didnt get much damage but got a lot of debris from destroyed homes and such. What impressed me the most was the amount of dirt and insulation chunks that were stuck to all 4 sides of my house, even up in the eaves and soffits. A lot of paper, some wood, fiberglass, metal paneling etc. I was surprised at the amount of pictures and pieces of pictures littered everywhere.
Its hard to describe the feeling you get inside from the pressure change, the temperature change, and silence right before the storm. Then the noise and wind comes almost instantly after the silence, to me it sounded more like a lower pitched jet engine from a large commercial aircraft. The wind is not straight line, more of a rapid swirling type wind that kind of lifts off the ground.
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