Re: U.S. storm toll rises to 297

[Guest guest]

That's what made them so bad. The power of these tornadoes was tremendous and they were far larger than usual. Normally what we'd get in Alabama are really narrow things. I mean narrow enough that they would take down individual trees but leave others close by untouched. I've seen a couple of those personally. One of them actually went very close to my place down there when it missed the house but flipped over the free-standing carport.

A report last night said that next month the weather patterns should be shifting back to the north so it will be the Midwest and all that will have to watch out for the big tornadoes and not so much the South anymore.

The South is still under a severe drought though and heavy crop losses are expected.

In a message dated 4/29/2011 1:37:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Wider than normalThat twister and others Wednesday were several times more severe than a typical tornado, which is hundreds of yards wide, has winds around 160 kilometres per hour and stays on the ground for a few miles, said research meteorologist Harold at the Storm Prediction Center.