so yeah i remember a year and a half ago we had 2 pinnacle crj's plane that had to have MAJOR repairs after a tornado ripped through TUL. now there is video of it... ps, turn your speakers up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLyssxqabc

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1031320/L/

 

No offense, but that wasn't anything. Come to Texas for a spring.

 

uh, you mean like the probably 500 times i flew there this year?

 

An F1 tornado is just a normal gusty afternoon wind in North Central Texas.

 

You don't know the meaning of gusty until you spend a year in GFK... For the record I'm from North Texas.

 

Wow that's crazy how it just starts spinning. Good find.

 

Are we seriously going to debate if tornadoes occur more often in Texas than Oklahoma? Geez, you guys are weird

 

Cool video, I was just in Tulsa last weekend. I don't know what coming to Texas for a spring has to do with this video, but you are more than welcome to visit this great state anytime!

 

There's no debate. It's proven Texas has fewer tornadoes than in the "alley" however when Texas does have one they are generally much more powerful and deadly. IE The one that hit Waco, Tx. Texas does tend to get higher winds. I believe it has something to do with the latitudes of the area and distance from water. I could be wrong on that last part as it's been 3yrs since I took that class.

The actual windiest part of Texas is on the Mexican border where winds from the gulf are channeled by the mountains and into the border area. Several times within a year we had winds in excess of 45 miles an hour. I went out to the airport after a windy night and found a Metroliner blown 200yrds away, a DC9 with nose gear broken so it could caster and even with the parking beak on it did several 360s on the ramp leaving screaching tire marks all over in perfect circles and a tri-pacer with the flaps ripped off and the wings bent from where the chains were in it. I think the winds hit 63kts that night.

 

Nobody can compete with Texas. Texas even has the most snow of any state because its TEXAS!!!