News F5 Tornado hits Mississippi

[djacobox372]

I can't imagine anything more terrifying than being in the path of an F5 tornado.

How can anybody live in these areas? It's like buying a house in an area where there's a free roaming, bullet prof, 500 foot long T-Rex that occasionally, and unexpectedly just destroys your neighborhood and eats everybody in sight.

 

[SakurabasEar]

What if an F5 hit a needle factory?

Imagine a damn needlenado

 

[Shaun K]

I drove out to houston last year from va for a surgery, decided to sleep in my car because no sense in paying over $150 to spend 4 hours in a hotel room.
Well weather got real shitty and was parked somewhere very close to meridian(?). Anyways, it got really bad. My dumb ass is parked at a loves and was like “i really need some walls around me”, so i leave like a retard thinking that a hotel is probably only a couple exits up the interstate. Well, there wasnt, and i was driving in the worst possible place you could be in a tornado. I like to think i make good decisions in an emergency situation, I generally do. Not that time.

anyways. No real point to that. Other than shit gets real down there in the south. RIP to all those involved

 

[SummerStriker]

What if an F5 hit a needle factory?

Imagine a damn needlenado

Keep that shit to yourself. That is a block buster.

I have one about a guy bringing needles and razors to a haunted house to give some weak poltrigeists something they can lift.

 

[Strychnine]

You mean like, the tornado took a break and is gearing up to come back later..?


I mean, I have no doubt there will be more tornadoes on Earth. It would be weird if tornadoes just stopped happening.

I mean the intensity of the storms. They're not going to get any weaker.

 

[Strychnine]

Looks like a monster

Nightmare.

 

[KnightTemplar]

 

[koquerelle]

My fear is that this is only the beginning.

What do you mean?

 

[JbModest]

Looks like a monster

Man when you can only see it through lightning flashes, that really sucks

 

[JbModest]

What if an F5 hit a needle factory?

Imagine a damn needlenado

Yeah but what if all the workers in the needle factory were sharks? You'd have a sharkneedlenado

 

[thegreenblender]

Fuckers are terrifying. We had a close call and I dreamt about it for years... Oh, it's a little cloudy, are those tendrils? Ah fuck, I see funnel stretching downward, it's happening... No bueno

 

[Sweater of AV]

Crazy stuff. RIP to those who passed away and hopefully the recovery goes well.

 

[ralphc1]

One of the worst states to have a disaster. Any money the Federal Government sends to the Mississippi will end up in someone's pocket or building a new volleyball facility.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I mean the intensity of the storms. They're not going to get any weaker.

I don’t think every tornado from here on out is going to be an F5 or worse, they’re pretty rare.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Looks like a monster

I don’t know if you have to be incredibly brave.. or stupid to just sit there and film that.

 

[dirtypablo]

I don’t think every tornado from here on out is going to be an F5 or worse, they’re pretty rare.

I doubt that's what he meant or was implying, rather just that the overall frequency of various types of extreme weather would increase.

There isn't a strong link between climate change and increased tornado frequency or strength at the moment, but when thinking about climate change you can really just think of it as an increase in the total energy in the climate system. Even though the link hasn't been established just yet, when thinking of the issue from the perspective that our climate system will have more energy, it doesn't seem like a big leap to assume we'll probably see one established in the coming decades.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I doubt that's what he meant or was implying, rather just that the overall frequency of various types of extreme weather would increase.

There isn't a strong link between climate change and increased tornado frequency or strength at the moment, but when thinking about climate change you can really just think of it as an increase in the total energy in the climate system. Even though the link hasn't been established just yet, when thinking of the issue from the perspective that our climate system will have more energy, it doesn't seem like a big leap to assume we'll probably see one established in the coming decades.

I feel like I’ve been hearing/reading this every time an F5 roles thru for decades now and they still haven’t increased in frequency.. like I said, F5’s are incredibly rare. I think theres an average of only 1 or 2 per year since they’ve been tracking them.

 

[deadshot138]

That's the definition of EF5... winds over 200 mph. So, yeah, you heard right.

Truly awful though.

I thought Tornados are judged by damage rather than wind speed, and the wind speeds are just an estimate. For example, the largest tornado ever, the El Reno, OK EF3, had winds of 302mph but did not impact many structures so the assessed damage did not earn it an F5 rating.
This monster in Mississippi looks like nuclear wreckage.

 

[rj144]

I thought Tornados are judged by damage rather than wind speed, and the wind speeds are just an estimate. For example, the largest tornado ever, the El Reno, OK EF3, had winds of 302mph but did not impact many structures so the assessed damage did not earn it an F5 rating.
This monster in Mississippi looks like nuclear wreckage.

It was 296 mph and upgraded to an F5.

 

[deadshot138]

It was 296 mph and upgraded to an F5.

https://theweatherstationexperts.com/el-reno-tornado-2013/

This is all I can find, says ef3