Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

I'm amazed you're having 85 degree evenings in Iowa City in mid April.
Is this typical?

No! We beat the temperature record for yesterday by over ten degrees.
Very unusual weather, for April.

Glad to hear to and yours came through it alright.

Look at the temperature difference before and after the storm. That is
what causes the rotation.
Remember that NEXRAD has a minimum eight-minute lag between the actual
weather and what is diplayed. Your local doppler radar displays the
actual conditions.
When the airport gets de-fodded, take Atlas up and photograph the damage
path. It will not be difficult to determine where it begins and ends.
(Please post if possible.)

The path of the tornado that hit the norther Cincinnati suburbs ten(?)
years ago was incredibile to follow. The industrial park behind my
sisters house was leveled. An industrial building 50 yards behind her
house disappeared, yet the trees on the fenceline and her house were
unscathed.
That storm prompted every member of our family to purchase weather
radios. Radio Shack had waiting lists for every model for over six
months.

("Denny" wrote)
Anyway, like Jay Beckman, as a lifelong Michigan resident I can see,
feel, and smell a tornado before it forms... I have up close and
personal experience with being picked up by a twister in 1953... I
survived and I'm not emotionally traumatized, but I am wary of those
monsters Next time get your butt into a basement and stay there until
it is all over...


Agree with Denny.

Mary would be known around town as The Widow Honeck ...."Hubba, hubba."

You do that again and we're going to have to start calling you Dorothy!

http://www.tapestryweb.org/tornado/images/oz4.jpg


Montblack

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
I won't make that mistake again.


You owe (S)omebody BIG time. g
http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/04/14/imageIAIOP10104140438.jpg

Easter Sunrise Service will be INSIDE the Church this year.

Bring the kids. "When we your your age...."

Give them a taste for this whole religion thing. You take them to museums
and State Parks. Not a bad time for a Jay and Mary (living memory)
time-capsule ...a Catholic mass - minus roof.

"Lift you hearts and your hands and your head to the heavens..."
"Hey, I can see it!"

Shoes shined Joe? Where's Becca's other white glove? Is the Easter offering
envelope still on the fridge? Where's my nice tie? Parents used to get
family pictures taken on Easter because that's the one time all nine family
members were all in their very best clothes.

Those kids will ALWAYS remember The Good Friday/Easter Tornado of '06.

Paul
Twin Cities has:
The Halloween Snow Storm of '91 ("The Perfect Storm" - storm)
The Floods of '65 (1969, 1993, 1997 were less dramatic)
The Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200011/10_steilm_blizzard-m/
The Heat Wave of '36

On 2006-04-14, Jay Honeck wrote:
So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado
sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were all

Nature is amazing, and we were so very lucky. Our hangar and plane are
unscathed, the hotel was just nicked a glancing blow, and our home is
fine. There's no word on casualties yet, but from the looks of things,

Jay, what an experience! I've never been through a tornado, and am not
hoping for such. It is wonderful to read that you didn't have much damage to
plane, hotel, and home and, yes, I'd say you were very lucky.

....Edwin
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"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, there you long to
return."-da Vinci http://bellsouthpwp2.net/e/d/edwinljohnson

Wow. You don't have thunderstorms? I know that different climates produce
different weather, but "never have them"??? That's amazing.

jf

wrote in message
oups.com...
Having *never* seen a storm or twisting winds (never have them in
southern India), a rush of air rustling furiously through the hair
always seems like something I want to really see and be in, and enjoy.
The very idea of a tornado or hurricane titillates me, yet I must
confess your prose makes me think again :\

Glad you came away unscathed, mate.

Ramapriya


Jay Honeck wrote:
So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message oups.com...
So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado
sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were all
too wrapped up in talk of paving taxiways to pay much heed.


Wow, Jay, well written in the heat of battle. No doubt you were a newspaperman...

I've heard of the happenings there on the TV this morning. Glad you and yours are OK; hope the others are coming
through...


--
Dan DeVillers
http://www.ameritech.net/users/ddevillers/start.html


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"john smith" wrote

Look at the temperature difference before and after the storm. That is
what causes the rotation.

Not exactly. That is one factor, though, in the strength of the storm.
--
Jim in NC

I live in Springfield, IL & we had 2 rounds with tornadoes only 3 weeks
apart during the last couple months. The first did the most damage. The
second rounds barely touched the ground before it jumped back up. We had no
damage at our house, while a mile down the road, roofs are being pulled off.

Funny thing, my wife & I were actually staying at Jay's inn that weekend &
were supposed to come back on Sunday afternoon. We left Saturday due to the
forecast. Sunday night is when the 2nd round of storms hit us.

Glad you're ok.

I'm gonna stop shopping for a strike finder & look for a tornado finder...



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
[snip]

Suddenly, the flag in front of me dropped straight down. The hail
continued for a minute, but the wind absolutely died. Then it was just
rain -- and then it stopped, too. I was wondering what the hell was
going on, when the guy on the radio suddenly said "Oh my God, there's a
funnel cloud!" The announcer asked him where he was, and he said "On
Benton Street!"

[snip]

Glad you and yours are safe. Earthquakes seem a minor nuisance compared to
this.

Jim




Downtown is a weird scene of utter pandemonium, combined with the
ambience of an all-night kegger. All the college kids -- 35,000 of
them -- are out partying, surveying the changed streetscape. The roof
of a gas station was lifted up, moved about six feet toward the street,
and then dropped back down, destroying everything inside. Cars are
upside down, and one was evidently sucked off the top of a six-story
parking ramp, and dropped into the street.

That record-high teperature no doubt was a contributing factor to the
tornado.

AJ