Tornado pics from up here yesterday.

[DesotoCountyDawg]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=2155504&id=73674902504

Lots of damage in the Olive Branch area.

 

[The Big Slick]

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[Seinfeld]

I live around Plantation and was playing Xbox when I heard the sirens were going off. The odd thing was that there was very little wind where I live so I didn't really worry about it after I found out that all friends and family were fine.

 

[FlabLoser]

Rooftops blown off, 2nd story walls ripped out. I'm gonna guess F3. Maybe F2.

Coulda been a lot worse.

 

[wedgewood]

It is right across from Flying J's.

 

[3000lbchicken]

this is one that tried to form right over my head the other day at the research park. The bright spot is the center where everything was rotating. Lucky for me, no flying monkeys.

 

[Coach33.sixpack]

I have been a weather geek my entire life and have still never seen a tornado that well defined. Anybody know what neighborhood that damage was in. Road names?

 

[jakldawg]

back in the 80's when I lived there, I thought "Tornado Alley" meant Goodman Rd.

 

[wedgewood]

Its on College Rd near Hwy 78 & Hacks Cross(Bethel Rd south of overpass).

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

My aunt and uncle live up there off of Bethel Rd and they have half a roof right now.

 

[FlabLoser]

this is one that tried to form right over my head the other day at the research park. The bright spot is the center where everything was rotating. Lucky for me, no flying monkeys.

That bright hole in the sky would be a RFD (Rear Flanking Downdraft). Within a minute or two of this forming, it is common to get a tube right beside it.

 

[3000lbchicken]

that's cool, learn something every day. It was a site to see.

 

[msudawg12]

this is one that tried to form right over my head the other day at the research park. The bright spot is the center where everything was rotating. Lucky for me, no flying monkeys.

That bright hole in the sky would be a RFD (Rear Flanking Downdraft). Within a minute or two of this forming, it is common to get a tube right beside it.

Never knew that. Now I know what I'm looking at could be a bad situation.

thanks

 

[windcrysmary]

nt

 

[JimHalpert.nafoom]

nm

 

[thatsbaseball]

The WxChallenge is a weather forecasting competition between colleges in North America. The competition is run by the University of Oklahoma. In its first official semester, fall 2006, there were 1,262 participants from 53 institutions. A similar competition, the National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest, recently ended, partially due to this competition. <a id="Organization" name="Organization"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[edit]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Organization</span></h2>

Entrants in the contest must be affiliated with a college or university, but they range in age and knowledge from undergraduates to professors. Each semester, 5 cities are picked for forecasting; the current city changes every 2 weeks. Contestants forecast 4 days per week for the following day's high temperature (in Fahrenheit), low temperature, maximum sustained wind speed (in knots) and precipitation (in 1/100ths of an inch).</p>

One "error" point is given for each degree of error on temperature, 1/2 an error point is given for each knot of wind speed error.</p>

Precipitation is scored as follows:</p>

• 0.4 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.00 to 0.10 inches inclusive
• 0.3 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.11 to 0.25 inches inclusive
• 0.2 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.26 to 0.50 inches inclusive
• 0.1 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range over 0.50 inches

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• 2006-07: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2007-08: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2008-09: Mississippi State University

 

[Mr Meoff]

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[JimHalpert.nafoom]

TCREB WAS RIGHT!!!! NERDS!!!!!!!

 

[jakldawg]

in the style of the Bama "we've one-upped M-effin' HARVARD in this one obscure thing" school of advertisement.