Bob CollinsWe have some more footage of the tornadoes that struck parts of southern Minnesota last month, this time an EF-1 tornado in Waterville, Minn. Read more →
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Tag: Tornadoes
An airplane hangar is no match for a tornado; they’re just a few steel beams and a bunch of tin. Read more →
As tornadoes go these days, this one in eastern Iowa on Tuesday was comparatively small, but it still provided one of the better tornado videos we’ve ever seen.
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On a weekend in which images of human evil raced around the world in seconds, it’s this image that won the day.
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When a pickup truck flipped over when tornadoes struck Texas on Saturday, there were plenty of reasons for strangers to think of themselves first.
But they didn’t. Read more →
The Washington Post reports today that, on average, we can get an 8 minute warning of a coming tornado; that’s seven minutes less than 2011. The National Weather Service’s performance goal is at least 13 minutes.
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For experienced storm chasers, Monday offered the opportunity for prime viewing of a still relatively rare weather event in these parts, in this case, Litchfield and Watkins in west-central Minnesota. Read more →
One year ago, almost to the day, Clem Schultz of Fairdale, Il., got a great video of the approaching tornado. The one that killed his wife.
Once you see this video, you might be inclined to take tornado warnings more seriously.
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It’s been four years and two weeks since a tornado ripped apart north Minneapolis and while there are still homes in need of repair, you might think that viewed from several thousand feet, you wouldn’t know a tornado dropped down on the city.
But that notion was dispelled when Reddit user AcerRubrum posted this image this afternoon on his/her flight into Minneapolis. Read more →
During Monday night’s tornado scare in Nebraska and Iowa, the Weather Channel TV meteorologists told people in the Sioux City, Iowa, area to evacuate. It’s not a call that’s the TV channel’s to make. Read more →
It’s hard to wrap our head around the destruction a tornado can cause. There’s not much left of Pilger, Nebraska, where the twin tornadoes struck yesterday. Read more →
Why are we obsessed with the Kennedy assassination, risking lives to get a viral tornado video, Ian Leonard’s concussion, the harvest in Hendricks, and there’s an ‘i’ in Grinnell. Read more →
Northern Minnesota used to be pretty much tornado-proof. Now? Not so much. Read more →
Because of Tim Samaras’ encounter with a tornado in South Dakota, we know a lot more about what happens when a tornado hits than the fact it sounds like a train.
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