Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

Mariner -- though supercells producing giant hail occasionally occur throughout the Plains, from Texas/the High Plains of E New Mexico all the way up through Minnesota/North Dakota/the High Plains of E Montana, perhaps the greatest concentration of such storms, and some of the greatest of such storms, occur in the area of NE Colorado/SE Wyoming/NW Kansas/the Nebraska Panhandle and far W Nebraska -- not all too unusual to hear of cattle killed by hailstorms out there -- one choice summer dawn in Chadron, Nebraska, in the (late, I believe) '80s, a hailstorm pounded some frame houses into their basements, leaving only a few wall studs still sticking up above the tops of their foundations

in the late '80s, while out on my annual chase vacation, I drove through part of Wichita, Kansas a day after a storm that dropped not just a lot of large hail, but also more than a few chunks of ice, comprised of hailstones frozen together, up to the size of cinderblocks -- as roofs were still in the process of being covered over with a certain heavy industrial-grade blue plastic sheeting, there were holes through virtually every visible roof section, some more than 6 feet across; semi tractors had been holed through the sheet metal of their roofs, hoods and fenders; and virtually all west-facing and/or north-facing windows had been blasted out, most along with their frames, and virtually all west-facing and/or north-facing siding on walls (aluminum, plastic, even the faux-brick masonry type) had been blasted full of holes or even entirely blasted off, chunk by chunk, impact by impact -- it wasn't just the heavy fall of hail spiced with the occasional congealed cinderblocks of ice; all of that ice came in hard and fast on a big wind (downdraft outflow, of course) that didn't just blow through but kept up throughout the rather extended (c. 15 minutes as I recall) hail event

here in the mid-'90s, a hailer that passed over DFW International one afternoon left behind commercial jets that had been at the gates or otherwise out in the open with holes in them

by the way, a real good tip, tried and true, in case you hadn't heard it -- if you're out on the road and a storm's ahead and there's anything greenish about what's falling out of it, say like a pretty semi-see-through green/blue-green curtain or shading hanging along the side of or from the underside of the storm, do not drive into that, and if you can stay/get away from that -- at the least pull over and get inside someplace at least reasonably solid and let it pass; and if it's still a ways off and there is a good route available to drive away/out of the way, do so, promptly -- green is the signature color refracted by ice, in particular by larger pieces/denser concentrations of ice

a few YouTubes I have handy, starting with yours:


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Hail Storm Oklahoma City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFv2W7Duqiw


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Incredible Oklahoma City Hail Storm 5-16-2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBN5qONfQDk [with comments]


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The hail core of the Oklahoma City storm, May 16, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY2EolxJKgc [with comments]


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Hail Storm in Midwest City, Oklahoma 5/1/2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qsgZhAks8 [with comments]


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Re: Hail Storm - Midwest City, OK May 1, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7ejo32b8A [with comments]


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Extreme Hail / Car Destroyed - Ogallala, NE - June 27, 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4X1lYrEKk [with comments]


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massive, deadly hail destroying car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM3Jk2lA9Js [with comments]


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HAIL X20 SLOW MOTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCWa3-PWr8 [with comment]


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MAY 3 1999 HUGE F5 OKLAHOMA TORNADO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG1z_llxOFo [with comments]


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Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak - May 3, 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-kDefE_Qc [with comments]


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Moore Oklahoma Tornado - TDWR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5UZ9MaX3HE [with comments]


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also the vids linked in http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=38808744 and preceding (many) and following