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	The Real Night of the Twisters
		Although the Grand Island tornadoes were not the most damaging ever, they moved so slowly about 5 mph compared to many tornadoes moving as fast as 60-70 mph that ''they still caused considerable damage,'' Wakimoto said.
		Nebraska's network of spotters has improved every year, and ''in that respect we are a lot better off than we were 10-15 years ago,'' he said.
		The Grand Island weather service office is scheduled to move to a new office just north of Hastings in 1992, and the new office will have a NEXRAD radar.
	www.gitwisters.com /tenyears/mostmemorable.php (941 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Grand Island, Nebraska Tornado Outbreak
		The Grand Island, Nebraska Tornado Outbreak of June 3, 1980 is also known as "The Night of the Twisters".
		A total of seven tornadoes struck the city that night, three of which were anti-clyconic.
		One region that was hit particularly hard was South Locust Street, which was struck by the 5th tornado of the night, with a Fujita scale rating of F4.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Grand_Island,_Nebraska_Tornado_Outbreak (188 words)

	Grand Island, Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grand Island is a city in Hall County, Nebraska, United States.
		Grand Island was once known for being a center of prostitution due to the volume of railroad traffic which went through it.
		On June 3, 1980, Grand Island was hit by a massive supercell storm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Island,_Nebraska (614 words)

	Opinion - The Grand Island Independent 02/04/03 - theindependent.com
		The Grand Island Area Economic Development Corp. (EDC) may meet the letter of the law by not giving a detailed accounting of how it spends $350,000 it receives from the city, but it is far from the spirit of the law and what Grand Island taxpayers expect of it.
		Grand Island residents have been badly shaken by the gruesome death of little Diana N. Molina, the 2-year-old who was killed last week in her home.
		Grand Island school officials are on the right track when it comes to intradistrict school transfers during the academic year.
	www.theindependent.com /opinion/editorials2003.shtml (9894 words)

	A TRIBUTE TO DR
		Ted Fujita was born on October 23, 1920 in northern Kyushu, the southwesternmost island in Japan.
		Dr. Fujita was asked to apply his microanalysis techniques to the barograph traces from a case involving a tornado outbreak in Kansas and Oklahoma on June 25, 1953.
		One steel beam struck the ground outside the tornado damage path at a 23 degree angle and was imbedded nearly eight feet.
	www.stormtrack.org /library/people/fujita.htm (5406 words)

	NWS Hastings, NE
		Also of note, three of the tornadoes rotated anti-cyclonically or clockwise, a rare occurrence in the northern hemisphere, where over 99 percent of tornadoes rotate cyclonically or counter-clockwise.
		For their outstanding service during the storm, the entire staff of the Grand Island NWS was awarded a Department of Commerce Unit Citation.
		The tornado center is the large hole (dot) on the left side.
	www.crh.noaa.gov /gid/Web_Stories/1980/weather/06-03/index.php (1429 words)

	Tornado Chase 2000May 4, 2000 - 7:00 p.m. ETWhere do tornadoes come from? Why do they continue to be so mysterious? The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tornadoes can occur that are entirely wrapped in heavy rain, and I have seen lighting near tornadoes on many occasions, and even some film/video footage where lightning flashes have occurred WITHIN the tornado's funnel-shaped cloud.
		The Tornado Team: It seems like, theoretically, that it would be possible to travel along in the middle of a tornado and survive, but I cannot imagine it would happen in real life.
		There is an "eye" in tornadoes, similar to the one in hurricanes, but it is so small and there is so much debris traveling at extremely high speeds that it would be hard to survive the experience without being killed or seriously injured.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/0504tornb.htm (7315 words)

	Stormchaser.ca Chase 2004
		Soon the storm became tornado warned and we saw what might have been a funnel cloud or tornado but we were too far away to tell for sure.
		The tornado's shape kept morphing from a cone to an elephant trunk to a large bowl.
		While shooting the lightning, tornado #4 was sighted to the north, near the town of Anthony.
	www.stormchaser.ca /2004/Chase_2004.html (3388 words)

	MissingNebraska.com: News & Notes: OCTOBER SURPRISE: Tornadoes rip through central Nebraska.
		Nebraska was enjoying unseasonably warm and humid weather that made conditions ripe for storminess upon the passing of a strong cold front.
		The tornado outbreak was not limited to Nebraska.
		Tornadoes don’t usually occur in Nebraska in October, but as Nebraskans know, when it comes to the weather in Nebraska, anything is possible.
	www.missingnebraska.com /News_Notes/nn101001_1.html (158 words)

	My Chase Accounts
		If the middle supercell(biggest, baddest, and closest) that produced 4 tornadoes in a row, would have moved maybe 7 or 8 miles further north the tornadoes would have hit my job site and I was stuck at work.
		I caught 3 tornadoes on a long shot with a lot of hope, not to mention a supercell that moved south for 6+ hours.
		Wayne/Coleridge, Nebraska area: I got to the only storm that had a tornado warning on it and watched it's outflow, it had to have produced an hour prior or so, push south.
	www.huntel.net /holly/my_chase_accounts.htm (3062 words)

	Stormchaser.ca Chase 2005
		The tornado potential was good today and two tornado watches were issued for the area but the best storms formed farther west, deeper into Colorado.
		A tornado watch was issued for the region and we did encounter torrential rain, frequent lightning and some small hail.
		These tornadoes were very weak and did not have any condensation funnel but they were churning up the farmer's fields, kicking up a lot of dirt.
	www.stormchaser.ca /2005/Chase_2005.html (2983 words)

	Top ten killer tornadoes in Nebraska history
		Most people from Nebraska have vivid memories of the Omaha tornado on May 6, 1975, or the Grand Island tornadoes of June 6, 1980.
		While these tornadoes did significant amounts of damage, they are not the a part of the top ten killer tornadoes.
		The tornado continued on into Iowa where 3 people were killed north of Bartlett and 2 people were killed SE of Glenwood in Mills County.
	www.crh.noaa.gov /oax/archive/1913_Omaha_Tor/topten.php (528 words)

	The Real Night of the Twisters
		Gartner, now 43, snapped the only photo ever printed of some of the tornadoes that ravaged Grand Island on that fateful night in June 1980.
		Today, he said, a similar tornado outbreak might result in dozens of video clips on local and national television.
		He calculated that the big tornado in the center of his photo was just north of Grand Island Senior High.
	www.gitwisters.com /twentyyears/gartner.php (403 words)

	General Information on the storm
		On June 3, 1980 the citizens of Grand Island, Nebraska probably saw a supercell like this in the sky before it was hit by seven tornadoes over a three hour period.
		The general scene in Grand Island that night was chaotic.
		Also the year had a number of significant tornado events as shown by this table and graph from John E.
	snrs.unl.edu /amet451/martin/bakground.html (515 words)

	Historical Tornado Events
		The worst of the outbreak was in Purvis, Mississippi.
		The worst tornado of the event was an F5 tornado that razed the town of Glazier, Texas.
		May 5, 2003 More than a dozen tornadoes rip though Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee flattening several towns and leaving 41 dead Some of the hardest hit by F4 tornadoes were Pierce City, MO, Stockton, MO and Jackson, TN.
	www.ezl.com /~fireball/Disaster15.htm (1211 words)

	Cyclone Road Chase Reports
		Another few notes about the bizarre chase year: Oklahoma recorded zero tornadoes in May, and there were zero tornado deaths in the USA during April, May, and June.
		A fine summary of this season is the DVD "Storms of 2005," a co-operative effort of more than fifty chasers with all profits going to charities and the Red Cross.
		Tornadoes eluded me in 2000 like they knew I was coming.
	www.cycloneroad.com /chase.htm (1260 words)

	dangerous and deadly tornado outbreak later today - Eastern US Weather Forums
		The low should be centered over southern Nebraska by later this evening with the trailing cold front and dryline into Kansas and Oklahoma.
		The triple point should be located near Grand Island, Nebraska by early evening.
		The most destructive tornadoes initially will be across southeastern and eastern Nebraska and into southwestern Iowa.
	www.easternuswx.com /bb/index.php?showtopic=458 (629 words)

	closer-to-home
		June 3, 1980 brought a tornado outbreak to Grand Island, Nebraska.
		While the outbreak may not have been as large as a lot of others, it still had a lasting impact on the residents of Grand Island, as well as on those all across Nebraska.
		The National Guard was called in and the area was considered a Federal Disaster Area (The Grand Island Independent).
	snrs.unl.edu /amet351/lippman/closer-to-home.html (122 words)

	Tornado Safe Room
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		if you are interested in Tornado Safe Room, you might like:Toronto To Montreal
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/201/tornado-safe-room.html (1305 words)

	Amazon.com: "Tornado Alley": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This region of the country often is referred to as "Tornado Alley." Tornadoes most frequently occur during the spring and early summer, and they usually oc- cur in the afternoon.
		tornado A11@9 Students map the killer tornadoes of a particular year to find out if most of them happened in "Tornado Alley." BACKRObND The American Meteorology Society defines Tornado Alley as "the area of the United States in which tornadoes are most...
		But there are several Tornado Alleys, perhaps the most significant being the big,...
	amazon.com /phrase/Tornado-Alley (561 words)

	PSPhotos 2004-2006 Storm Chase Accounts
		As the tornado intensified we realized that it was heading towards us so we jumped back in our cars and drove about another quarter of a mile up highway 160 and pulled over again.
		Now the tornado was about an 8th of a mile wide and heading north towards highway 160 about a quarter of a mile behind us.
		Another tornado was forming right on highway 160 in front of us...now we thought we were in real trouble.
	www.psphoto.com /schase0405.html (11145 words)

	Tornadoes 24 May 2004 Nebraska
		Another tornado in the meanwhile had developed to our southwest providing an opportunity to film from either side of the vehicle and who knows what else was happening as yet another brief tornadic spinup occurred.
		It was a large tornado at first gradually evolving into a narrow, strongly-rotating elephant trunk — similar in character to the Pampa tornado in 1995.
		We could have intercepted the second tornado as we were in striking distance to Topeka but we gave it a miss.
	www.australiasevereweather.com /storm_news/2004/docs/200405-02.htm (814 words)

	another violent day expected - Eastern US Weather Forums
		Throughout the day, expect this warm front to track northward into east central Nebraska and Iowa and into northern Illinois.
		The timing we're looking at will include severe/tornadic thunderstorm development around mid afternoon across southern Nebraska and into extreme southwest Iowa with destructive tornadoes very likely.
		Bottom line though is it's looking to be as violent, if not worse than what we dealt with Saturday night from Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska eastward through Des Moines, Iowa City, and the Quad Cities area too.
	www.easternuswx.com /bb/index.php?showtopic=448 (544 words)

	Tornado Links News Archive Page 3
		NFB 7/9/04 Tornado razes 20 houses in Naogaon 10 injured
		Grand Forks Herald 6/7/04 Ward County tornado destroys farm animals, barn
		Grand Forks Herald 6/6/04 Barn reported destroyed by tornado in southern Ward County
	www.sirlinksalot.net /archives/tornado4.html (4442 words)

	The Weather Doctor's Diary: March
		In the old mythology these entities were recognised, indistinctly moving, in the grand scene of nature.
		Oklahoma reports its first tornado in 292 days, a record stretch of days without a reported tornado that began May 16, 2003.
		A local resident reports a kune kune pig was lifted by a tornado and flung through the air to land unharmed in a nearby paddock.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/diarymar.htm (4344 words)

	JournalStar.com - Lincoln, Nebraska - Nebraska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She said the Global Information System on the unit would allow statewide and national tracking of disease outbreaks instantly.
		"If there's a tornado and phone lines are out, (the TAC-PAK) could be used as a communication station for emergency responses," Sturdevant said.
		He said the emergency could be as simple as the health department losing phone service temporarily to as serious as an outbreak of smallpox or a bioterrorism attack.
	www.journalstar.com /articles/2004/12/24/nebraska/10053117.txt (599 words)

	Storm Chasing Tours, Tornado Chasing Holiday, Stormchasing Vacation
		I have been fascinated by severe storms and tornadoes since I was just six years old, and as a result, I began studying severe weather at a very early age.
		I believe it is a combination of the spirit of adventure, the desire to learn the technical aspects of weather formations and the advantage to witness the awesome power and beauty of some of nature's most amazing phenomenon.
		The dubbed "Centerville" tornado outbreak, had us witnessing 22 tornadoes in just a brief time that evening and its definitely a day I'll never forget.
	www.stormchasing.com (3717 words)

	Tornado Links News Archive Page 1
		Charlotte Observer 5/28/06 Gaston storm was a tornado
		Charlotte Observer 5/17/06 Cabarrus storm was a tornado
		USA Today 4/9/06 Killer tornado was middle of the scale that measures severity
	www.sirlinksalot.net /archives/tornado2.html (3683 words)

	Photo Gallery - Page 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		me also that the SPC issued a tornado watch for the southern 2/3 of Nebraska.
		to the area where the possible tornado was expected to track.
		tornado warning was issued for a tornadic storm near Axtell which was just 15
	www.stormproductionsinc.com /gallery13.htm (803 words)

	Night of the Twisters
		A tornado watch means that a tornado could come into the area
		She was at the bowling alley when the tornado hit, then left with a trucker
		She was not at the bowling alley when the tornado hit
	school.discovery.com /quizzes23/ih8sdb/NOTTEST.html (627 words)

	Nebraska Weather and Climate
		on to produce the tornado across Dawson County later in the evening.
		Click Here for the NWS report on the April 20, 2007 tornado (external to our site).
		March 28, 2007: Tornado Outbreak on the Plains.
	www.hprcc.unl.edu /nebraska (1171 words)

	WXnation Wire: Weather & Space News » Big storms, tornado outbreak possible today, tomorrow; Warning about ...
		Big Storms, Tornado Outbreak Possible Today, Tomorrow: AccuWeather says tornado outbreak begins today for the season: strongest thunderstorm activity will begin late on Wednesday in the south-central Plains and advance NE, E. Resources: Current watches and warnings map
		Kansas City … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
		Tags: tornado, outbreak, weather, storms, NOAA, rain, drought, space, moon
	www.wxnation.com /wire/1128 (359 words)

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