Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

bagwa-john -- welcome to the board, glad you found us -- post to your heart's content, plenty of room -- especially for a new voice hailing from the 'reality-based' community (as per http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=4393656 )

thanks for the kind words -- a lot of good stuff has been posted on this board since it first became active at the start of '04 -- and unless another has popped up recently that I haven't seen, this is the only politics-allowed free board on iHub other than ZTTP

re F6 tornadoes -- while the size and intensity of tornadoes generally are not linked, the F6 events are a breed apart -- long tracks, on the ground far longer than average for tornadoes -- mature-stage damage paths at least close to a mile wide and up to at least c. 2.5 miles wide -- and when mature, in form, when images of them have been captured, always large (to massive) wedges

images of 3 recent ones, all taken from the south, storm moving to the right:

the 5/4/07 Greensburg, Kansas tornado, backlit by lightning, just before it moved into Greensburg, 1.7 miles wide:

see also:

the 5/3/99 Moore, Oklahoma tornado while still southwest of the Oklahoma City metro area, between 1.5 and 2 miles wide -- my signature pic (more at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=5500147 ) -- see also:

the 4/26/91 Red Rock, Oklahoma tornado, at this point approaching a mile wide, kept it in good view as it continued growing to 1.5 miles wide (I'm the guy on the right, my car in front -- and yes, that is a horizontal vortex feeding into the main circulation from the east -- in motion from a different angle in the second 'see also', at 0:15-0:17):

see also:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&b=8&vid=54403&gid=114290 (also includes time-lapse and still shots of other storms; the tornado throughout is the Red Rock, including some at its beginning)