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37 years ago..Super outbreak


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Look at that jet entrance streak coming out of eastern Texas. Wow.

With all due respect for the carnage that was wreaked, that loop is just severe wx porn. About as picture-perfect as is possible.

That is a beautiful image. It was also terrifying to live through. I was under one of the warned storms as a 6-year-old living in Cincinnati. The Xenia carnage was north of Cincy by about 50 or so miles.

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KLAF METAR...this would've been the Monticello tornado which passed to the northwest.

METAR KLAF 032200Z 16025G33KT 7SM TS SCT040 BKN070 OVC150 23/17 A2914 RMK TB44 W MOVG E LTGIC W-N PRESFRLAF3/16 STATE POLICE RPT AT 2151 5TORNADO SLP864 T02280172

There's been some speculation on what the return rate is for an outbreak like this. Given the relatively short period of better tornado documentation, it's hard to know. 100 years? 200 years?

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At one point forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state of Indiana under a blanket tornado warning. This was the first and only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.

http://en.wikipedia..../Super_Outbreak

[citation needed]

Interesting if true.

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Maybe one of the most "perfect" events to have ever come been concocted by the atmosphere in recorded human history.

Everything came together just right.

If we ever see anything come even close, we ought consider ourselves blessed to watch such meteorological perfection unfold (with all due respect to those who lost homes and loved ones on that day).

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Maybe one of the most "perfect" events to have ever come been concocted by the atmosphere in recorded human history.

Everything came together just right.

If we ever see anything come even close, we ought consider ourselves blessed to watch such meteorological perfection unfold (with all due respect to those who lost homes and loved ones on that day).

 

Was browsing through the threads and saw this...

 

Interesting to read after the fact.

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