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Offline aldo_14

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Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
on: July 28, 2005, 05:00:32 pm
 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #1 on: July 28, 2005, 05:03:44 pm
At first I thought it said "torpedo", making me wonder wtf a torpedo was doing in the middle of Birmingham. :wtf:

But ahh well, global warming sux, blame it on Bush, etc etc.

*Cue massive ecological debate*
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #2 on: July 28, 2005, 05:16:34 pm
I thought this thread was gonna' be about alabama. Was gonna say that's normal... :nervous:
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Offline Deepblue

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Reply #3 on: July 28, 2005, 05:42:35 pm
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Originally posted by Raa
I thought this thread was gonna' be about alabama. Was gonna say that's normal... :nervous:
 

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Reply #4 on: July 28, 2005, 06:43:33 pm
Pesky colonists, stealing our placenames....

Crazy stuff, though. It could have been rather nasty...
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Reply #5 on: July 28, 2005, 08:24:27 pm
[color=66ff00]Bloody hell, I was thinking 'air show accident' i.e. the fighter and not the weather.
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Offline Bobboau

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Reply #6 on: July 28, 2005, 08:34:45 pm
I thought it said tomato, as you can imigine I fealt let down.
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Reply #7 on: July 28, 2005, 08:51:17 pm
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I thought this thread was gonna' be about alabama. Was gonna say that's normal... :nervous:



I first thought, How could I have missed this! But, it's not my Birmingham.


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A Met Office spokesperson said: "From the reports we have heard we would estimate that this is a tornado with a rating of T3-T4, that would mean it had wind speeds of between 93-114 mph for T3 and 114-130 for T4.


Strong F1 or a F2 on the Fujita scale.
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Reply #8 on: July 28, 2005, 11:41:53 pm
I had no idea England even got tornadoes.
 

Offline Scuddie

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Reply #9 on: July 29, 2005, 12:56:06 am
People also have no idea Norther California ever get tornadoes.  Quite the contrary, tornadoes are fairly common here...  It's just that they don't ever do anything :D.
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Offline redmenace

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Reply #10 on: July 29, 2005, 02:41:22 am
I once had a friend have half their house torn off. Worse part is they were the only home in a 20 arce farm. Then unfortunatly the tornado went right down the main street of Fleetwood, Pa. I saw disaster when I went to help clean up the mess.
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Reply #11 on: July 29, 2005, 04:46:33 am
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I had no idea England even got tornadoes.


That's the whole point. They're incredibly rare in Britain...
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #12 on: July 29, 2005, 06:18:27 am
I can't remember a single tornado ever hitting a UK town (er, except this one).

I think there's been the odd very weak waterspout or soforth.  But nothing that could ever damage property, let alone tear roofs off.
 

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Reply #13 on: July 29, 2005, 08:40:55 am
Hopefully this is just an exception and not the beginning of a pattern.
 

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Reply #14 on: July 29, 2005, 09:26:04 am
Here is a faq I found about UK tornados. Looks about normal to me. Just that this one hit somewhere to cause damage

http://www.severewx.co.uk/tnfaq.htm
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Offline SadisticSid

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Reply #15 on: July 30, 2005, 05:45:42 am
I was in town a good few miles away when it happened, no wind as such, but I've never seen rain like it; New Street became a river in about half a minute. Freaky.
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