The Siren Board

I'm sure most of us on here have seen the famous video where the tornado passes right in front of the cameraman at McConnell AFB with the 2T22 screaming in the background. Here are two clips I found of that. The first one is just a REALLY long version of that famous video. You can actually see the 2T22 on the right side of the screen at 0:37 and at 0:45. The second video was taken about a mile or so to the northeast. You can actually tell in the second video when the tornado reaches the first cameraman when you see the sudden rise in the amount of debris, the shape of the funnel, and of course when the siren dies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2veLsNZr ... ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-Eos-D ... ed&search=

I remeber this footage when i was 5 on some TLC program on tornados, this is what basically made me become interested in tornados and sirens.

Cool,

I notice in the second video, from 2:55 onwards you can hear a Thunderbolt rotating every ten seconds or so, good mix.

Dan.

It's also a single phase 2T22 too. Bolt sounded like it was on the hi tap too.

Just out of curiosity what category was the storm? I've also noticed in some other videos of tornadoes that the sirens aren't sounding but in this one they do sound.

Well, I can tell you that tornado sirens will sounds, granted if there are any in the area, if a tornado warning is issued for the county. Warnings and sounding the sirens have nothing to do with the Fujita rating of a tornado because the Fujita rating cannot be found out just by mere sight of the tornado. Teams of NOAA employees have to go out to the destruction sites and classify the rank of the tornado based on the amount and kind of damage they find.

The particular Fujita rating of the Andover, KS tornado was an F5, one of only 10 to develop in the US since 1990.

quiksmith10 wrote:The particular Fujita rating of the Andover, KS tornado was an F5, one of only 10 to develop in the US since 1990.

Not to mention the Plainfield, IL F5 of 1990, which was the second
largest/highest inds in a tornado recorded in the U.S., behind the
May 3 1999 tornado in Oklahoma.

The winds were well over 300 MPH in the plainfield tornado.
Sirens never sounded, and destroyed Plainfield's thunderbolt (so i've heard)

Tele.Tech.4000 wrote:

quiksmith10 wrote:The particular Fujita rating of the Andover, KS tornado was an F5, one of only 10 to develop in the US since 1990.

Not to mention the Plainfield, IL F5 of 1990, which was the second
largest/highest inds in a tornado recorded in the U.S., behind the
May 3 1999 tornado in Oklahoma.

The winds were well over 300 MPH in the plainfield tornado.
Sirens never sounded, and destroyed Plainfield's thunderbolt (so i've heard)

I heard about "The Plainfield Syndrome" and that the sirens did sound...which was about 30 minutes after the tornado left.

Some lady at my church lived in Plainfield during the tornado. She told me that the sirens did go off after the tornado had passed. I know that for a fact

jkvernon wrote:Some lady at my church lived in Plainfield during the tornado. She told me that the sirens did go off after the tornado had passed. I know that for a fact

The tornado was about 300 feet from my aunt's house! Surprisingly,
there was no serious damage to her house. But all the other houses
on her street had to get ripped out and rebuilt.

There is a pretty large field behind her house, which is very close
to I-55. It went through the field, destroying the 2 power line tower things
there.

My mom remembers the day well. she said the sky to the west
of here was totally black.