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[ElRenoRaven]

Shit, Tim and his crew seemed like really nice guys and Tim is a legend within the chaser scene ......... he was one of the more careful ones.

RIP TIM and the other members of Twistex that lost there lives.

Yea there is no way they could have survived. My drive through work every day takes me through the damage. I was floored looking at it. The Vo-Tech here is damaged as hell. The footage on tv really doesn't do the damage justice. Then the stockyard is rubble pretty much. You see pole after pole just snapped in half or at the base. Right next to the Vo-Tech there is heavy oil equipment and rigs and those are twisted and just demolished.

It's amazing that any houses are standing in that area. They may be stripped bare but they are still standing. Also here is another hail sone someone got a picture of that was posted on facebook. Makes the smaller one I pictured look like nothing. Honestly wish I could have gotten one of the larger ones like this person did to picture.

 

[syllogism]

NWS upgraded the El Reno tornado to a 2.6 mile wide EF5 with 295+ mph winds and 150+ mph forward speed subvortices, making it the widest tornado on record...

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201306041706-KOUN-NOUS44-PNSOUN
http://kfor.com/2013/06/04/update-el-reno-union-city-tornado-widest-tornado-on-record/

 

[maquiladora]

NWS upgraded the El Reno tornado to a 2.6 mile wide EF5 with 295+ mph winds and 150+ mph forward speed subvortices, making it the widest tornado on record...

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201306041706-KOUN-NOUS44-PNSOUN
http://kfor.com/2013/06/04/update-el-reno-union-city-tornado-widest-tornado-on-record/

God damn. Thats fucking incredible.

 

[FyreWulff]

God damn. Thats fucking incredible.

I just sized that out over my hometown..

.. holy shit

 

[legacyzero]

Stormchasers Tribute to air tomorrow night at 10pm Est on Discovery for Tim Samaras and crew. I just can't believe I was watching these guys on TV just weeks ago

I watched this just this past Sunday night. Gives a lot of incite and interviews from survivors of the twister

 

[matt05891]

Two huge EF5's in less then 2 weeks. With one being that big... I can't even imagine seeing a tornado of that magnitude in person.

 

[todahawk]

I just sized that out over my hometown..

.. holy shit

Same here, it would've swallowed my hometown and then some. Scary shit.

 

[cajunator]

NWS upgraded the El Reno tornado to a 2.6 mile wide EF5 with 295+ mph winds and 150+ mph forward speed subvortices, making it the widest tornado on record...

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201306041706-KOUN-NOUS44-PNSOUN
http://kfor.com/2013/06/04/update-el-reno-union-city-tornado-widest-tornado-on-record/

Fffuuuuuck.
thats one of the fastest on record (318 mph is the top one) and it is by far the widest ever.
That is one of the most extreme weather events to ever occur.

 

[liquidspeed]

Fffuuuuuck.
thats one of the fastest on record (318 mph is the top one) and it is by far the widest ever.
That is one of the most extreme weather events to ever occur.

Yeah, these winds were measured at 500 feet, so surface winds in the El Reno tornado would have been about 240 mph using the standard 20% reduction, but that is still beyond incredible. IN comparison the Joplin Tornado was rated at about 220 mph and the Tuscaloosa tornado at about 195 mph. The Tornado that just went through Moore on the 20th is estimated to have had surface winds of 210 mph.

 

[AirBrian]

Two huge EF5's in less then 2 weeks. With one being that big... I can't even imagine seeing a tornado of that magnitude in person.

That's the bigger story for me...having two in a matter of days is some scary "2012" shit!

 

[ElRenoRaven]

I just sized that out over my hometown..

.. holy shit

Yup and we got very lucky it went around the outskirts and then back around us. If that had actually come completely down I-40 the way it looked like it was going to most of the town would probably have been destroyed. We got very very lucky. Driving through the damage day after day to work it floors you. Really makes you appreciate how lucky most of the town was.

 

[StopMakingSense]

God listening to that kfor video is scary, went from less than a mile wide to 2.6 miles wide in 30 seconds

 

[KingGondo]

I've spent the whole week since Friday dealing with storm damage, it really sucks.

Water got into my loft/converted basement area and we can't figure out where it's coming from. It's been an endless parade of phone calls to my insurance agent, visits from contractors, roofers, gutter specialists, and panicked rushing around with towels and wet/dry vacs every time it rains...

I'm exhausted, but I guess I should just be thankful I have a house to worry about.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

I've spent the whole week since Friday dealing with storm damage, it really sucks.

Water got into my loft/converted basement area and we can't figure out where it's coming from. It's been an endless parade of phone calls to my insurance agent, visits from contractors, roofers, gutter specialists, and panicked rushing around with towels and wet/dry vacs every time it rains...

I'm exhausted, but I guess I should just be thankful I have a house to worry about.

Yup that's the worst part after storms like these. Between insurance companies for cars and homes, glass repair folks, roofing folks, etc it really gets hard to keep track of. Course you have to look and go well at least we're alive to deal with little things like that. Hard to believe the death toll is now up to about 20 last I looked between tornado and the flooding everyone took between here and OKC.

 

[matt05891]

The video of the The Weather Channel vehicle flipping is insane. Right as they say duck down before they flip the window shatters.

 

[mariachi507]

Stormchasers Tribute to air tomorrow night at 10pm Est on Discovery for Tim Samaras and crew. I just can't believe I was watching these guys on TV just weeks ago

I watched this just this past Sunday night. Gives a lot of incite and interviews from survivors of the twister

Just a reminder that this is airing in a couple of hours.

 

[ladyluthien]

Tropical Storm Warning starting to pop up on TV here in Tampa! And here starts hurricane season!

 

[Hitokage]

Holy shit, that's a massive updraft to keep it up in the cloud long enough to get that big.

 

[maquiladora]

Holy shit, that's a massive updraft to keep it up in the cloud long enough to get that big.

CAPE was up to 7,000 J/kg.

 

[KingGondo]

Yup that's the worst part after storms like these. Between insurance companies for cars and homes, glass repair folks, roofing folks, etc it really gets hard to keep track of. Course you have to look and go well at least we're alive to deal with little things like that. Hard to believe the death toll is now up to about 20 last I looked between tornado and the flooding everyone took between here and OKC.

Thankfully the adjuster will be visiting soon, then we just have to worry about paying or deductible. And you're dead on about being thankful that we still have a house to worry about. That was probably the scariest storm I've been through in close to 20 years of living in Oklahoma.

As for the damage: I love living in a historic district, but there are also times that I can see the appeal of a brand-new house in Norman or Yukon.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

So this probably isn't good. Gotta admit, I'm pretty worried.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Posted by the Wilmington, OH NWS branch on FB: