Unique Space Image of Alabama Tornado Tracks - NASA Science
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16may_groundtracks/
NASA has released a unique satellite image tracing the damage of a monster EF-4 tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 27th. It combines visible and infrared data to reveal damage unseen in conventional photographs.
Among other things, the article gives access to this video:
YouTube - Tuscaloosa Tornado Damage Aerials Part 1
(http://youtu.be/G6giQ3csbUg)
The views of residential and business zones here are reminescent of Hiroshima, Japan on August 7th, 1945.
Here's part 2:
YouTube - Tuscaloosa Tornado Damage Aerials Part 2
(http://youtu.be/h3Pl4Gu0Ly0)
These acres and acres of flattened timber look like the aftermath of the 1908 Tunguska Event.
(Check the right-hand side-bars on the linked page and the page containing Part 2 for related videos.)
Basically, what happened is that a gigantic dragon spun out of air and water and heat descended on the Alabama countryside from a huge, sinister ebony-green castle floating high above and laid waste to everything along a vast strip of land shown in aqua in the photograph accompanying this article. The fact that we call such dragons "tornadoes" and qualify them as "meteorological phenomena" doesn't change the fact that they are dragons, enormous ones, nor are those sinister castles any the less sinister (or castles) for being called "clouds." They're dragons, all right. Just ask the surviving citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
And see EF4 Tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011 Tornado Videos and April 25-28, 2011 tornado outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for additional information on this historic storm.
NASA has released a unique satellite image tracing the damage of a monster EF-4 tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 27th. It combines visible and infrared data to reveal damage unseen in conventional photographs.
Among other things, the article gives access to this video:
YouTube - Tuscaloosa Tornado Damage Aerials Part 1
Click to view(http://youtu.be/G6giQ3csbUg)
The views of residential and business zones here are reminescent of Hiroshima, Japan on August 7th, 1945.
Here's part 2:
YouTube - Tuscaloosa Tornado Damage Aerials Part 2
(http://youtu.be/h3Pl4Gu0Ly0)
These acres and acres of flattened timber look like the aftermath of the 1908 Tunguska Event.
(Check the right-hand side-bars on the linked page and the page containing Part 2 for related videos.)
Basically, what happened is that a gigantic dragon spun out of air and water and heat descended on the Alabama countryside from a huge, sinister ebony-green castle floating high above and laid waste to everything along a vast strip of land shown in aqua in the photograph accompanying this article. The fact that we call such dragons "tornadoes" and qualify them as "meteorological phenomena" doesn't change the fact that they are dragons, enormous ones, nor are those sinister castles any the less sinister (or castles) for being called "clouds." They're dragons, all right. Just ask the surviving citizens of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
And see EF4 Tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011 Tornado Videos and April 25-28, 2011 tornado outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for additional information on this historic storm.