Rare Japanese tornado kills 1, injures 48
A rare strong tornado ripped through Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan 30 miles northeast of Tokyo on Sunday, killing a teenage boy, injuring 48 people, and damaging or destroying 890 buildings. The tornado carved a path of destruction 15 km long and 500 meters wide, said the Japan Meteorological Agency. The tornado was given a preliminary rating of F-2, with winds of 113 - 157 mph (Japan uses the traditional "F" scale to rate tornadoes, not the "EF" scale used in the U.S.) The tornado also damaged homes in a housing complex in Tsukuba where 20 people from seven families from Fukushima Prefecture had evacuated following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, caused by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. I bet those families are feeling disaster-prone!
Video 1. A rare tornado in Japan hits approximately 30 miles northeast of Tokyo on May 6, 2012.
Japan's tornado climatology
Tornadoes are rare in Japan, due to the fact the nation is surrounded by ocean, which tends to stabilize the air. Between 1961 - 2010, an average of 15 tornadoes per year hit Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Only four F-3 tornadoes have hit Japan. The most recent F-3 hit on November 7, 2006, in the Wakasa area of Saroma, Hokkaido. Nine people died and 26 were injured. Over 30 buildings, including a dwelling, warehouses and temporary structures were damaged or destroyed. No violent F-4 or F-5 tornadoes have been recorded in Japan, according the Japan Meteorological Agency, though other sources list a December, 1990 tornado as having been an F-4. Wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt has more details in his latest post, Deadliest Tornadoes. Only one F-2 tornado hit Japan in both 2010 and 2011. A 1997 study published in the Journal of Climate found that Japanese tornadoes occurred most frequently in September and least frequently in March, and that typhoons were responsible for about 20% of all the tornadoes. A list of Asian tornado outbreaks maintained at Wikipedia lists the deadliest Japanese tornado as one on 6 September, 1881, which killed 16 people.
Figure 1. Distribution of tornadoes in Japan, 1961 - 2010. Image credit: Japan Meteorological Agency.
Jeff Masters
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I actually did talk to SPL though and I was one of the people that he didn't dislike... And he told me he wouldn't comment here again so...
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=crp&produc t=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
Yeah he WU mailed me a while ago and said he's done with the site... He did create another account before that though, but he didn't post much with it.
He liked me too :)
The final truth, by its very nature, will be true!
As there will be no rumour in that truth?
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Seems like a better place for bad philosophy/physics masquerading as science, anyway.
And since I'm insane and uneducated, I may just believe it :)
Im thinking great great great great great great granpa
Outflow boundaries were forecasted to set up over Hillsborough and Pinellas in the next hour or so, I just seen it on the news at school....
He did say that, but I'd be surprised if he could stand his God being hated on like what has happened lately and not emerge from lurking.
I don't even think he reads the site anymore... He made this account after he was banned
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Meanwhile...
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
510 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LLANO COUNTY...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT.
* AT 508 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CASTELL...OR ABOUT
15 MILES WEST OF LLANO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PRAIRIE MOUNTAIN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY
SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH
OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3066 9859 3051 9894 3059 9898 3075 9898
3083 9894
TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 296DEG 19KT 3068 9891
$$
This one is an awesome picture of a massive thunderstorm SE of my location. I believe it was severe-warned...I can see why:
And here is another one about an hour later of a shelf-cloud moving in from the East. A line of storms came in from Alabama and this is what it looked like when it reached my location:
All I can say is that you've gotta love summer-time thunderstorms!
The Super Moon made the top of wunderground WorldView this week.
Check out this pic as well as many more here:
www.wunderground.com/worldview
Uploaded by: JRW64
Yeah!!! Summer anvil tops are awesome to see... I saw the first 40K top out here last week, and it became severe warned...
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Like a leaf upon a breeze,
We will pass this way but once.
Now older, we might cherish the springtime of youth!
Only until we fall upon a slumbering Earth,
Where we fuel life anew.
..or 3 or 4... looks like its about to blow out there...
where in mississippido u live?
Looks like it's Hillsborough's turn!!!! :D
Radar shows the main cluster starting to move south towards Plant City now...
im ready for some rain!!!
Hi Press,
Looks pretty straightforward to me.
First there was creation, then there was evolution!
But then I don't like complicated things.
Yo! yea...I'm pretty comfortable with a little mystery about it all....
NOGAPS is definitely one model you shouldn't bet your life on or lose much sleep over. It makes for some great imaginative doomsday scenarios though.
I sure hope Plant City gets hammered tonight.
I dont want to be like this but argue over wu mail or text the person. Doing this will probably get you banned only 20 days after you join!!!
Same with anyone who grew up in the 80s.
cant say i didnt try
In a few weeks, with the start of the Atlantic season everybody had better behave themselves, or they get dealt with.
Just for now comments are better then blank spaces and interesting things come out of idle chat sometimes.
I read all of the blog and sometimes strange correlations and diverse ideas emerge that I would never have thought of.
Things like religion isn't a way of life, it is life.
Or how the small piece of information is seen so differently by so many people.
Makes me see things though other peoples eyes sometimes!
They ban people in cane season like nobodys business
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