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The Weather Channel is now reporting as "breaking, confirmed" news that three of the nine deaths in the El Reno tornado were members of the
TWISTEX team, including Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and Carl Young. Given TWISTEX's having been included in the
Storm Chasers TV show, should we include this alongside what happened to Bettes's team? It's already mentioned on the TWISTEX page.
rdfox 76 (
talk)
14:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Well, definitely yes. Also, we need an article on
Tim Samaras now, he easily qualifies as notable enough, with this sad news underscoring this. I dont have time right now, im sure someone can do this right.(mercurywoodrose)
99.23.81.234 (
talk)
16:12, 2 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Do we have any source on the weight of the truck Samaras usually drove? The 1500-pound figure in the article currently seems dubious; that's roughly the weight of an
Indy car, and not much more than a Formula One race car. He seemed to be using a
Chevrolet Suburban or GMC Yukon when Storm Chasers was on the air; that's at least 4000 pounds.
rdfox 76 (
talk)
23:08, 4 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Just relaying what the source provided: "three-quarter ton truck." I'll try and find more sources to see if there's a better weight.
Cyclonebiskit (
talk)
00:29, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Isn't normally the rating supposed to be based on damage (i.e like they've did in Moore on May 20) rather than velocity or they haven't identified the area of EF5 damage?. Sounds like the methods of classifying damage have changed. If it's the case there are quite a few tornadoes pre-2007 that would have earn a cat 5 rating. — Preceding
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184.162.151.9 (
talk)
00:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Supposedly it is supposed to be damage, but it seems at least two tornadoes this year were rated based on wind speed measurements. I personally don't like it, but whatever the offices do is the official word. In regard to pre-2007, the F and EF scales are technically different rating systems even if one is derived from the other.
TornadoLGS (
talk)
00:12, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
With technology constantly improving, meteorologists are having more faith in the wind measurements by Doppler radar and are starting to use them to rate tornadoes (when measurements are available). This is the third tornado this year to be rated based on mobile Doppler readings. They just take the winds and match them up with the EF-scale, so anything >200mph would qualify as EF5.
Cyclonebiskit (
talk)
00:28, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
This is true, but the measured winds (296 mph) are also high enough to qualify as F5 on the old scale (260-319 mph); I suspect that's why the NWS chose to accept the radar wind speed to upgrade it. Apparently, NWS OUN is also saying unofficially that it was at least partly because it was in an area where there were almost no ratable structures for it to damage.
Alternatively, even though vehicles are not officially considered Degree of Damage indicators, perhaps they also applied the old F5 standard of "cars or trucks thrown more than 100 yards" to it, using the TWC truck as their point of evidence, based on that catch-all in the damage description of "Incredible phenomena will occur"?
rdfox 76 (
talk)
02:00, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I guess that is good then, especially considering the chaser's truck, as such indicators were mentioned for some of the EF5 tornadoes from he April 27 outbreak.
TornadoLGS (
talk)
02:42, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I remember tornadoes that have thrown vehicles like that and have only received EF3-EF4. I don't think the vehicles had anything to do with the rating. If they had, the tornado would have already been given a higher rating. On a side note, over in
Lawrence County, Tennessee (not far from my neck of the woods) on April 16, 1998 an F5 supposedly threw a car more than 20 miles (32Â km). Of course that hasn't been proven (especially since the track itself was only 19 miles (31Â km) and some change). Vehicles might have a small part in the rating but I don't think it is a determining factor.
United States Man (
talk)
02:54, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I found an image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It looks like an excellent image in my opinion, but it has been annotated. It seems that on the page I retrieved it from, there was a link to a non-annotated version, but sadly, that link has expired. If that were not the case, I would be less hesitant on including this picture. Still, it is a high-resolution depicting the outbreak as it occurred on its deadliest tornado day, and I think it would be good for the article. Still, I would like it if someone would give me an opinion on this. Thanks.
DustinÂ
(talk)16:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)reply
Why don't you compare how it looked on the right versus on the left; I thought it looked significantly better on the left because you aren't cramming every single picture on the same side. Maybe there's more to your reasoning, but that is why I moved it to the left from the right.
DustinÂ
(talk)03:23, 8 June 2014 (UTC)reply
The full size of the picture is 2048x1152. I shrank it to a much smaller size, but you still think it is too large? That's too bad...
DustinÂ
(talk)03:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)reply
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