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Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:54 pm
by KCMax
Tornados don't hit urban areas.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:55 pm
by lock+load
KCMax wrote:
Tornados don't hit urban areas.
They hit trailer parks. What's right across from the K? Trailer park! Blow that m'fer K away!
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:03 pm
by KCrules
People who live in a trailer park had better pay attention to the weather more than anybody else around town. I think your asking for it living in a tin can!
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:05 pm
by bahua
It is interesting how you don't often hear about downtown areas getting directly hit by tornadoes. My roommate has a theory that if downtown areas were prone to tornadovulation, there wouldn't be a great gathering of people in that spot. Seems to kind of make sense.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:05 pm
by scooterj
MidWestSider wrote:
Hail downtown
Where? I'm at 10th & Walnut and we didn't get squat. Just a little rain. The usual blandness.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:06 pm
by KCMax
My fiancee says the heat of an urban area keeps tornadoes away. Not sure why. She's the science geek, not me.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:08 pm
by bahua
scooterj wrote:
Where? I'm at 10th & Walnut and we didn't get squat. Just a little rain. The usual blandness.
I think he was saying "hail downtown," like "hail mary," or "heil downtown!"
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:10 pm
by KCrules
That's crap...the frequency in which tornadoes strike is so random that for one to hit a major metro area is nearly impossible. Although it has rarely happened, it can and will. All those myths about the tonganoxie split, metro protection, etc is so not true.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:21 pm
by scooterj
I do believe in the Tonganoxie split because I watched this storm on radar, all excited, suddenlly split apart just before downtown, the gap move over downtown, and then the storm reseal itself once it was past the core.
But tornados hit downtown Salt Lake City and downtown Miami (or some other FL city) in the past decade so it's definitely possible.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:24 pm
by KCrules
May, 2003 was just a glimpse of what could happen. Just wait awhile, the weather has no regard for concrete or dirt.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:39 pm
by voltopt
correct - besides, tornadoes have hit our downtown before - over a hundred years ago, destroying the jackson county courthouse at 2nd and main and the original hannibal bridge.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:26 pm
by KCN
Tornadoes never hit downtowns, like Fort Worth,
Nashville,
Miami,
Topeka,
or Salt Lake City.
The perception that storms always weaken or split before hitting one location is a widespread one, and almost always only because storms are constantly changing and evolving. Chances are, if you've been watching a storm approach from the west, it is going to weaken or redevelop before it hits you, because that's what storms do.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:42 pm
by warwickland
currently hail @ umkc campus
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:46 pm
by scooterj
Well, as usual, both of today's storms managed to miss me entirely other than a little rain. However, for about 45 seconds this afternoon, I did have a nice rainbow.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:22 am
by KCLover
Of course downtown KC gets tornados, just look here.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:07 am
by SouthKC1985
KCLover wrote:
Of course downtown KC gets tornados, just look here.
The people in this picture driving on I-35 and I-670 don't seem to care. Anyway, my car looked more like a severe dirt storm hit it last night than a severe thunderstorm. Car washes should be packed today
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:11 am
by Steve52
Living on the edge of Z
Screenshot of the nuclear explosion depicted in 1983's The Day After. This scene was filmed on K-10 Highway between Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, MO, heading towards Kansas City, near the DeSoto, KS exit off the highway
Better put up my umbrella!
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:45 am
by scooterj
SouthKC1985 wrote:
Anyway, my car looked more like a severe dirt storm hit it last night than a severe thunderstorm. Car washes should be packed today
Yeah, I saw just enough rain yesterday to stir the dirt around on my car. Could have at least had the decency to rain enough to actually rinse some of it off.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:46 am
by StL_Dan
We got the perfect amount of rain in Olathe to water in the dose of Scott's fertilizer and Halts I put down at 11pm Wed night.
Re: The Official Kansas City Weather Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:40 am
by Roanoker
KCMax wrote:
Tornados don't hit urban areas.
When I was in a Kansas City grade school (yeah, I can remember that far back), a tornado struck Ruskin Heights. The Kansas City Star published a photo of the severely damaged high school, proudly displaying the letters, "RU IN"