I have never heard of or seen signs of a tornado going thru any of the Disney Parks. Has there ever been one in the parks and did it cause damage?
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Tornados in the Disney Parks
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itsmegrooo
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i know there have been some bad storms but i don't think it's done any damange
Ill contact Mother Nature and request that a tornado touch down just on the hat and leave everything else just the way it was
itsmegrooo
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i actually don't think the hat is that bad.lol but then again that's just my opinion
Clever Name
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The climate in Florida is not conducive to the formation of tornados. Most tornados in Florida are small and of very short duration. :wave:
I'm sorry, but that just isn't correct. http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr193/qr193.html
A tornado hit about 1/4 mile from me - no loss of life, and limited property damage.
The past 5-10 years have really brought our previous "rules" of where a tornado can form into question. I was unaware of those but thanks for the info!
WDW_Emily
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I go to School in Boston but for the Summer live in Western Massachusetts. June 1st we had a tornado that destroyed quite a few homes. I second that there are no rules for tornados and they can pretty much happen anywhere.
Weather cycles are prone to anomalies just like anything else. There are of course more prone areas but all it takes is conditions lining up just right and they can occur. It is like the one that hit here in Suffolk Va in 2008. We have never had one like that and it took out a historic village and several neighborhoods.
I actually experienced my first tornado warning when I moved to Florida in 1982, and they are very common during severe thunderstorms.
I have seen dozens of waterspouts over the years, and actually drove next to a tornado in FL circa 1988 or so. Again in SC in 1993. Both times I was terrified and pulled over as soon as I found a safe spot.
A weird sky color, heavy winds, and horizontal rain are not good signs.
I never heard about tornadoes hitting New England until the last 5-10 years, however.
Sam Eagle 1776
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Yeah I think it would have been pretty historic if a tornado to hit, they tend to ravage whatever is in the path no matter how short they touch ground for.
erasure fan1
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Wait! So it wasnt the tornado I had wished for, that ripped the 2000 off of SSE! And all this time....
:lol:
I actually experienced my first tornado warning when I moved to Florida in 1982, and they are very common during severe thunderstorms.
I have seen dozens of waterspouts over the years, and actually drove next to a tornado in FL circa 1988 or so. Again in SC in 1993. Both times I was terrified and pulled over as soon as I found a safe spot.
A weird sky color, heavy winds, and horizontal rain are not good signs.
I never heard about tornadoes hitting New England until the last 5-10 years, however.
I feel that a better discussion would be the damage/effect of hurricanes from the past.
Micro cells. They have become more common the past 5 years and we were pelted two months ago with one. None of the shipyards in the area with their state of the art warning systems had more than 3 minutes warning. Some gusts topped 100mph and blew cranes down the track with one death resulting (it takes a few minutes to chock a crane and with no warning it was impossible.)
Actually here is an image of it coming in at Va Beach.
Ah yes, the micro-cells/microbursts. Many of those around here. Not real tornadoes, but close enough to scare me. That photo is exactly what I saw, but with heavy rain - it was reported as a tornado, because after it passed it formed an actual funnel. Imagine being in one of those cars!
So I guess that it wasn't technically a tornado when it was next to me.
But, to answer the OP - no major (or even minor, AFAIK) tornado damage at WDW - yet. And, I wouldn't worry about it.
So I guess that it wasn't technically a tornado when it was next to me.
But, to answer the OP - no major (or even minor, AFAIK) tornado damage at WDW - yet. And, I wouldn't worry about it.
disneyrcks
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I feel that a better discussion would be the damage/effect of hurricanes from the past.
Micro cells. They have become more common the past 5 years and we were pelted two months ago with one. None of the shipyards in the area with their state of the art warning systems had more than 3 minutes warning. Some gusts topped 100mph and blew cranes down the track with one death resulting (it takes a few minutes to chock a crane and with no warning it was impossible.)
Actually here is an image of it coming in at Va Beach.
That is so terrifying....I couldn't imagine driving into that!
Clever Name
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While Florida ranks fourth nationally in tornado frequency, large, violent tornadoes are fairly rare in the Sunshine State. Most Florida tornados are of F1 intensity, winds of 73-112 mph and short duration.
Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/weather/2396864/detail.html#ixzz1Qoy6JUPr :wave:
Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/weather/2396864/detail.html#ixzz1Qoy6JUPr :wave:
HouCuseChickie
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Granted, the stats change every year, but at one point FL was #2 out of all 50 states in tornadic activity. Mind you- it's been a number of years. Of course, most were smaller tornadoes, but tornadic activity is fairly common in the Sunshine State. We used to hear reports of small to moderate tornadoes all the time when I lived in Gainesville.
I remember in 1998 when I was in Florida I was staying at Orange Lake Resort in a ground level one story villa and a tornado destroyed a campground and flattened out the RV's across the Lake Orange Lake is located at. It might of also destroyed some homes. Another quarter to half a mile out car would have been scrap, the villa is made of cinder blocks but then you never know.
AEfx
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That freaked me the heck out.
I'm in Maine (extreme southern - closer to Boston than you are probably, LOL), and when I saw that I was like, "HUH??"
Stuff like that isn't supposed to happen up here - poisonous animals, earthquakes, tornadoes. It was definitely a wake up call!
And supposedly, the fault line under Boston hasn't moved in so long it's pretty much a certainty that it will happen someday.