Severe Weather Approaching ?

Peg Leg wrote:
I'd roll up the awning pick up the chairs and any loose items. Then I'd watch the sky. Having done some spotting with SKYWARN for the National Weather Service I know some things to watch for. Local radar, and a scanner would be on.

Where you gonna run to?

Sooooo where you gonna run to.....?

Could have added this to the Wichita Falls Tornado about Sheppard AFB:

F-5 on the Fujita Scale. Seven dead, 100 injured.
(Since 2007 the Scale is the "Enhanced Fujita Scale "EF-").

*live* TV tornado coverage
Serious - but sometimes funny stuff - check the little window VW and other "period" vehicles, the "Calamity Janes", LEOs with cigars, etc.

LOTS of room in Texas. Sheppard AFB was a HUGE place, Training & SAC Base. IMO the active and in-active runways, taxiways, and A/C parking area would be best described in miles - rather than acres.

Close in - on the edge of the housing areas, there were classroom buildings. That's were you went *if* you were in the housing areas.
Walk (or run) a couple of city blocks.

WAY, way out on those flat, cement aircraft areas - there were old (WWII vintage) hangars that originally were a metal frame with lots of windows all the way around.
Sometime later, the windows were removed - the metal frames remained.
(Newer versions had modern buildings built *inside* the old hangars.) The rumor was the AF couldn't get money for new construction.
Solved that in typical govt style, by building new *inside* the old - sort of a "remodel" - old hanger over/around a new building.

Anyway - cut to the chase:
Lots of 'classes' on-going *WAY*, way out on the flight line on/in stationary (no longer flyable) A/C there.

Where to run to?

The folks 'caught' in that situation would go to the (old) empty metal framed hangars (they were the closest), sit on the floor and link arms.
In the new bldgs, you sat in the hallway between classrooms and did the same.

The guys out on the flight line "boondocks" had a harrowing experience in the old hangars!!.

When the tornado passed through - they 'levitated' off the ground!!
They all told the same story - some thought it was for several seconds, some said 20-30 seconds to a minute.

Floaters?..:@


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