Tornado scars from space

[Mr. Laz]

What a tornado scar looks like from space


http://dvice.com/assets_c/2011/06/tornado_track1-thumb-550xauto-63999.jpg (http://dvice.com/archives/2011/06/what-a-tornado.php)


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This is an image from Landsat 5 taken on June fifth, showing what the scar from the EF3 tornado (http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/google-street-v-2.php) that tore through Massachusetts on June first looks like from 438 miles up in space.
http://dvice.com/assets_c/2011/06/tornado_track_ann-thumb-330x220-64000.jpg (http://dvice.com/assets_c/2011/06/tornado_track_ann-64000.php)
The annotated version of the image points out the town of Sturbridge along with I-90 and I-84 to help you get your bearings. The total length of the track is nearly 40 miles through southwest Massachusetts.
These images were taken by Landsat 5, an observation satellite that's been creating an archive of the Earth's surface for the last 27 years. You can find lots more imagery of everything from fires to floods to erupting volcanoes at the Landsat event image archive, here (http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/event_index.html).

[Donger]

That's amazing. I don't think I would want to see the Joplin version.

[seclark]

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[Simplex3]

EF3's are for bitches.

[Saulbadguy]

That's amazing. I don't think I would want to see the Joplin version.

Why not?

[Donger]

Why not?

I don't know. Maybe because it was so lethal.

[4th and Long]

What a tornado scar looks like from space
http://dvice.com/assets_c/2011/06/tornado_track1-thumb-550xauto-63999.jpg (http://dvice.com/archives/2011/06/what-a-tornado.php)
here (http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/event_index.html).
That was on Nasa's website yesterday.

[Saulbadguy]

I don't know. Maybe because it was so lethal.

I heard some Iranians may have died. Perhaps that would change your opinion?

[Mr. Laz]

That's amazing. I don't think I would want to see the Joplin version.
NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/) Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/)

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/50000/50755/joplin_ast_2011150.jpg (http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/50000/50755/joplin_ast_2011150_lrg.jpg) acquired May 30, 2011 download (http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/50000/50755/joplin_ast_2011150_lrg.jpg) large image (2 MB, JPEG)

In the afternoon and evening of May 22, 2011, a supercell thunderstorm (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/soo/docu/supercell.php) traveled from southeastern Kansas into southwestern Missouri. Over Joplin, Missouri, the supercell spawned an EF-5 tornado (http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/f5torns.html) with winds higher than 200 miles (300 kilometers) per hour. As of May 28, 2011, the National Weather Service estimated the fatalities from the Joplin tornado at 142, and the number of injured at more than 750.

The track left by the Joplin tornado remained visible on May 30, 2011, when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) (http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/) on NASA’s Terra (http://terra.nasa.gov/) satellite captured this false-color image. In this image, vegetation is red, buildings and paved surfaces are varying shades of gray, and clouds are nearly white. The tornado track is light brown.

As of May 30, the National Weather Service classified the Joplin tornado as the deadliest in the United States since modern recordkeeping began in 1950, and the eighth-deadliest tornado in U.S. history. Besides the human toll, the tornado caused widespread destruction to the city’s homes, commercial structures, public buildings, and roads. On May 31, 2011, the <cite>Springfield News-Leader</cite> reported that St. John’s Hospital in Joplin was so badly damaged that it would need to be completely replaced.

[Donger]

I heard some Iranians may have died. Perhaps that would change your opinion?

No.

[4th and Long]

Satellites Reveal Tornado Tracks in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/tornado-tracks.html

NASA Satellite Sees Tornado Tracks in Tuscaloosa, Alabama: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/severe-storms-20110429.html

Tornado Track Across Indiana and Kentucky: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_455.html

Tornadoes Leave Path of Destruction Visible from Space: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/wisc_tornado.html

Tornado Swath: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=2411

Unique Space Image of Alabama Tornado Tracks: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16may_groundtracks/

[Pitt Gorilla]

I heard some Iranians may have died. Perhaps that would change your opinion?Flawless victory. LMAO

[loochy]

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I can't stop laughing at that picture

[Ebolapox]

but where the circular radar thingies around it and before it?

[Ace Gunner]

I heard some Iranians may have died. Perhaps that would change your opinion?

:clap: :LOL: :p