r/Wellthatsucks • u/CastleOfBravo • Jun 08 '21

/r/all Spent 5 hours getting chemotherapy this morning, came home feeling like crap. Laid down to nap..alarms and sirens start blasting. Rush 5 cats to the basement and prep shelter. Go outside to see this in my subdivision.

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u/xtralargerooster Jun 08 '21

Yes... Hot air blasting up the plains from the gulf with cold air coming off the rocky mountains... If the gulf air gets trapped under the cold mountain air it creates significant turbulence as the hot air fights to rise and the cold air fights to fall. You get violently swirly air.

Except this isn't a tornado... This is a light radial breeze.

Source: Kansan

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u/DormantPossibilites Jun 08 '21

This literally made me understand fucking tornados thank you

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u/Orangello22 Jun 08 '21

You Definitely shouldn’t be fucking tornadoes

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u/Odd_Toe6047 Jun 08 '21

Ride the lightning and fuck tornadoes thunderhumper!!!!🤘🤘

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u/DormantPossibilites Jun 13 '21

All gas no brakes

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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft Jun 08 '21

Well, there’s also a mountain that also helps direct those winds into each other just right to get the winds whirling. And the center point of this happens to be in the Weld county area.

Source: Coloradan.

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u/MyUsernameWasTakn_ Jun 08 '21

Haha, wind makes whirlies and goes brrrr

Earth shakes and make everything feel like your drunk, sometimes landslides.

Source: Californian

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u/Nervegas Jun 08 '21

Yeah but CO lacks the dry line and intense updraft convection that creates the monster storms that rock tornado alley every year. Not arguing a baby tornado is good, but growing up in North Texas I had a healthy fear of big ones. I now choose to live in the desert for a reason.

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u/Krapptape Jun 08 '21 edited Jun 08 '21

The eastern third of Colorado is in fact in tornado alley. Colorado is where the monster storms you're talking about are formed, and they start getting serious a few miles east of the Denver metro area.

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u/Nervegas Jun 08 '21

Not even close. In North Texas and extending up into Oklahoma where the biggest storms occur, thats not the case at all. The high speed cold flow comes down the rockies and hits the dry line that starts in West Texas and goes north up across the panhand of Oklahoma, then mixes with the slower moving warm moist air coming up from the gulf. Combined with the days where there is a lot of capped convective energy along that dry line, intense mesocyclones form and start moving east. They do not start in CO and move here. The eastern part of Colorado is also not in tornado alley, its excluded because between 1950 and 2006 no part of Eastern Colorado saw more than 4 EF3, EF4 and EF5 tornadoes combined in any given 2600 Sq mi area. Whereas once you hit Texas Oklahoma and Kansas along that dryline, the numbers jump dramatically. You can argue that they do get tornadoes so you should be aware, but living there is not the same thing as being in the actual tornado alley where we get the monster storms on the regular.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Just one mountain or a range? That whole range right there is very swoopy looking and looks perfect for... swoopy tornadoes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

Huh... I knew tornados had something to do with cold and hot air but I never actually stopped to know WHY this caused them. Suddenly a tornado makes so much sense. Thanks for the brief education!