London KY Airport hit by Tornado

I think that’s a yellow WW2 era trainer under the blue plane.
 
They used to have a DEA building surrounded by barb wire tall fence on the corner of the airport. They ran military helicopters out of there daily to look for marijuana. Once a week on the north side of the field they would burn the weekly haul.
 
That trailer is typical EMS flight crew trailer. If that’s the case, they were probably sleeping when that thing rolled through. Amazing it escaped unscathed.
 
Ah - the destroyed helicopter was an EMS, medical chopper?
 
FORANE said:
They used to have a DEA building surrounded by barb wire tall fence on the corner of the airport. They ran military helicopters out of there daily to look for marijuana. Once a week on the north side of the field they would burn the weekly
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have we got a check-in from @Skyrys62 *, @crash7 , @ktup-flyer ...........? who else is in that area?

*I got a txt with a pic of various female genitalia from skyrys so I know he wasn't impacted............
 
WDD said:
I think that’s a yellow WW2 era trainer under the blue plane.
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Both the yellow one and the blue-and-white one are T-34s.

A group of T-34 guys were apparently doing a formation clinic there, anywhere between 3 and 7 airplanes destroyed varying with reports.
 
Still here. Looks like most of the stuff went just south of us. News said that debris for a tornado south of us was raining down into Evansville.


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crash7 said:
News said that debris for a tornado south of us was raining down into Evansville.
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Most likely from the Morganfield Ky tornado. That's where most of Jen's family is, but they escaped any real damage. Edge of town got hit though.
So far news reported about 50 homes hit, approx. 30 of those destroyed.


Doesn't even look like the same tornado but AFAIK there was only one. Preliminary rating seems to be EF-3 (on social media, so take that for what it's worth).

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I spent many years in Oklahoma and most of my years in hurricane-prone areas. I have to say given the choice between the two I'd take tornados. What they destroy is a pinpoint compared to a hurricane. The disadvantage being, as mentioned above...no warning.

I was watching this storm from some of the chasers' live feeds. It was definitely a scary one.
 
KE5BM said:
I spent many years in Oklahoma and most of my years in hurricane-prone areas. I have to say given the choice between the two I'd take tornados. What they destroy is a pinpoint compared to a hurricane. The disadvantage being, as mentioned above...no warning.

I was watching this storm from some of the chasers' live feeds. It was definitely a scary one.
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I'll go with hurricanes... compare the wind speed of a F5 tornado vs maximum winds ever recorded for a Cat 5 hurricane.
 
Totally understand your perspective. But I remember driving I-10 east a few months after Hurricane Michael. The same level of destruction you'd see from a tornado in a quarter mile swath covered miles and miles of Florida up to and beyond I-10 north of Panama City.

Then again, we're both up here in New England where people still talk about Hurricane Bob like it happened last year. And thunderstorms up here aren't anything spectacular, usually. Aside from the winter, the weather up here is rather boring.
 
KE5BM said:
I have to say given the choice between the two I'd take tornados. What they destroy is a pinpoint compared to a hurricane.
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Except its not about the destruction. You have time to run from a hurricane vs being woken up at 3am from a deep sleep to hail on the window as the "train" rolled by. I'll take any other natural event x10 over a tornado or earthquake.
 
donjohnston said:
That's rough.

People in Florida complain about hurricanes. But at least we get a couple days warning that they're coming. These things arrive with very little warning.
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Just to add to that, across the midwest we get tornado watches almost every storm and tornado warnings all the time. You get really used to hearing them and nothing actually happening so people stop worrying about it too much. So people start just ignoring it until they start to see the trees bending over outside.
 
Bob Noel said:
I'll go with hurricanes... compare the wind speed of a F5 tornado vs maximum winds ever recorded for a Cat 5 hurricane.
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Hurricanes can bring tornadoes with them. Last fall there was an EF3 tornado that caused a lot of death and destruction over a wide area, along with other tornadoes, ahead of Hurricane Milton. The tornado was far more damaging than the winds from the hurricane.
 
Bob Noel said:
I'll go with hurricanes... compare the wind speed of a F5 tornado vs maximum winds ever recorded for a Cat 5 hurricane.
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sure, but EF5/EF6 tornados are extremely rare, even EF4 intensities don't happen all that much. Something like 80-85% of all tornados are EF0-EF3.
 
Lost a 150 in a hurricane last year , unfortunately I wasn’t in the area to move it. Lesson learned. I’m not a big fan of tornados either
 
KUNU got hit too, though not nearly as bad. Several hangars sustained damage, a couple of roofs taken off and a couple of doors buckled in... I couldn't see what the damage to airplanes inside was though.

cowman said:
Just to add to that, across the midwest we get tornado watches almost every storm and tornado warnings all the time. You get really used to hearing them and nothing actually happening so people stop worrying about it too much. So people start just ignoring it until they start to see the trees bending over outside.
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"People" need to understand the difference: A tornado watch means "conditions are conducive to tornado formation today so keep an eye out." A tornado warning means "THERE IS A TORNADO."

So, when there's a warning I at least look at where the tornado is, and if I'm not between 360 and 090 from the tornado, I don't worry about it.
 
Hacker said:
A group of T-34 guys were apparently doing a formation clinic there, anywhere between 3 and 7 airplanes destroyed varying with reports.
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5 pretty much totaled. One with damage. The damaged one is based a few hangars down to me. He is hoping he can ferry it to be repaired. Otherwise it will be wings off and travel by trailer.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
KUNU got hit too, though not nearly as bad. Several hangars sustained damage, a couple of roofs taken off and a couple of doors buckled in... I couldn't see what the damage to airplanes inside was though.


"People" need to understand the difference: A tornado watch means "conditions are conducive to tornado formation today so keep an eye out." A tornado warning means "THERE IS A TORNADO."

So, when there's a warning I at least look at where the tornado is, and if I'm not between 360 and 090 from the tornado, I don't worry about it.
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Except the idiots that man the tornado alarms around here fire them off even when there isn't even a tornado watch. It doesn't help that every ****ing newscast is "snowmageddon" or "the worst storms we'll see in 100 years" and we get 2" of snow or winds less than that which I've landed in. Every damn front that comes through has the "potential of softball sized hail" and "winds that will uproot large trees" and "seek cover."

Meanwhile the last round where all this was supposed to happen, we had a single twig fall onto the trampoline and I stood out on the porch and watched the rain and listened to the siren wail while the leaves on the trees barely moved for the 90 minutes they had it going off. I pretty much ignore the news and "Storm Team 8."
 
EdFred said:
Except the idiots that man the tornado alarms around here fire them off even when there isn't even a tornado watch. It doesn't help that every ****ing newscast is "snowmageddon" or "the worst storms we'll see in 100 years" and we get 2" of snow or winds less than that which I've landed in. Every damn front that comes through has the "potential of softball sized hail" and "winds that will uproot large trees" and "seek cover."

Meanwhile the last round where all this was supposed to happen, we had a single twig fall onto the trampoline and I stood out on the porch and watched the rain and listened to the siren wail while the leaves on the trees barely moved for the 90 minutes they had it going off. I pretty much ignore the news and "Storm Team 8."
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When I lived in Houston, every time a tropical storm entered the Gulf, local news forecasts begin salivating that it would turn into a hurricane and march up I-45 to destroy Houston after flattening Galveston.
 
EdFred said:
Except the idiots that man the tornado alarms around here fire them off even when there isn't even a tornado watch. It doesn't help that every ****ing newscast is "snowmageddon" or "the worst storms we'll see in 100 years" and we get 2" of snow or winds less than that which I've landed in. Every damn front that comes through has the "potential of softball sized hail" and "winds that will uproot large trees" and "seek cover."

Meanwhile the last round where all this was supposed to happen, we had a single twig fall onto the trampoline and I stood out on the porch and watched the rain and listened to the siren wail while the leaves on the trees barely moved for the 90 minutes they had it going off. I pretty much ignore the news and "Storm Team 8."
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Rainy season has started in Florida, and almost every evening the TV is blaring with urgent weather alerts every few minutes for severe thunderstorms. Uh, yeah, no, they aren’t that severe. They’re the same t-storms that happen almost every day. Save the alerts for tornadoes and hurricanes. I wish there was a way to suppress weather alerts on the TV.
 
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EdFred said:
Except the idiots that man the tornado alarms around here fire them off even when there isn't even a tornado watch. It doesn't help that every ****ing newscast is "snowmageddon" or "the worst storms we'll see in 100 years" and we get 2" of snow or winds less than that which I've landed in. Every damn front that comes through has the "potential of softball sized hail" and "winds that will uproot large trees" and "seek cover."

Meanwhile the last round where all this was supposed to happen, we had a single twig fall onto the trampoline and I stood out on the porch and watched the rain and listened to the siren wail while the leaves on the trees barely moved for the 90 minutes they had it going off. I pretty much ignore the news and "Storm Team 8."
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Yeah, all the Chicken Little BS that some places spout is very counterproductive - It's what causes people to ignore evacuation orders and whatnot for truly hazardous weather.

At least here it's mostly just the Weather Channel trying to sell ads. "Storm Team 4" is OK. I've never heard the tornado siren go off here even though we had a touchdown just outside our neighborhood a couple years ago... And the siren isn't too far from us so it shouldn't be a problem to hear it.

But, whether it's weather or news, it's gotta be foaming at the mouth to sell the all-important ads.
 
Sensationalist journalism under the guise of weather forecasting. TORCON 3! Winter Storm Alexandria! The examples go on and on. Many, many years ago I was watching a local news station in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area and there was a fairly significant rain storm coming through. No real wind or t-storm threat, just a bunch of rain. I watched a field "reporter" say something akin to "you can already see the flooding beginning to happen here on the streets" as the camera zoomed in to a very tight view of..........a pothole in the road that had filled with water.

When I lived in Oklahoma as a teen, we pretty much lived perpetually under a Tornado Watch from May to September. Forecasting has become better now so it's not as prevalent anymore. However, the urgency in the messaging has not got any better. Every weather event is being pitched as the worst-ever-seen nowadays and has definitely led to a numbing to the noise by the general public. I had heard several years ago that TWC supposedly learned their lesson and was going to back off of the apocalyptic-style of weather forecasting but they continue to use made-up terms that aren't in use by the whole of meteorology. Add to that every freaking weather app you can get on your phone are all wildly different from one another in an effort to catch your attention. "My app says 45 mph winds and 8" of rain starting in 5 minutes!" I look at the NOAA NWS forecast and no...nothing on the radar and the forecast calls for 15kts and mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of rain.

Here in New England, a couple summers ago we had a pretty significant heat wave for this area lasting about 3 days. Heat indexes were forecast to be in the 90s. A local news station covering the hot weather felt it necessary to tell the public about some things they could do to prepare their cars for the terribly dangerous heat that was headed our way. (I'm from South Texas originally so that, alone caused me to laugh) Their recommendations included checking your tire pressures (always a good idea), changing the oil in your car to a lower weight (many cars run 5w-30 or less nowadays) and ensuring your car battery water is topped off. I don't know about y'all but I haven't seen a serviceable battery in at least 2 decades. Face. Palm.
 
KE5BM said:
I had heard several years ago that TWC supposedly learned their lesson and was going to back off of the apocalyptic-style of weather forecasting but they continue to use made-up terms that aren't in use by the whole of meteorology.
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“Battered” seems to be a popular TWC term right now…I keep expecting to hear that the south will be deep fried.
 
EdFred said:
Except the idiots that man the tornado alarms around here fire them off even when there isn't even a tornado watch.
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I "won" a Facebook battle with one of the three local governments whose sirens I can hear at my house for the same issue. Turned out that they were sounding the alarm any time there was an actual or forecast wind gust >60mph. They were going off multiple times a week sometimes. They still refused to only sound them for tornado warnings, but they at least raised it so 80mph or something so that it isn't frequent. I still know that if the only siren is to my north, I can ignore it.

PS Facebook was the only place I could find to contact the emergency management team that sounds the alarms.
 
Bell206 said:
Except its not about the destruction. You have time to run from a hurricane vs being woken up at 3am from a deep sleep to hail on the window as the "train" rolled by. I'll take any other natural event x10 over a tornado or earthquake.
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Earthquakes are fine. 7+ starts getting kinda sketchy but I’ve been through a couple of them.

My best advice is, if you’re taking a shower and a big one starts, sit down!
 
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