Where were you when the tornado sirens went off yesterday.
I was headed up Summit, going to KFC. They were about to lock the doors up there, but let me get something.
I probably should have taken cover quicker, but I did manage to get home pretty fast.
The sirens are only sounded if a tornado has been spotted in the area, and if it looks like there might be one. Ive heard that there has not been a tornado in Arkansas City.
The rivers might really have something to do with that.
We can still have storm damage here, so its probably not a good idea to continue on to a fast food place when you hear the sirens go. :) note to self.
The wind was blowing so hard, i could feel the truck moving. Rocking.
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in the 80's i hear one went thru downtown
Yes, there was one in the 80's that knocked the bell off the Union State Bank. I think he meant there wasn't a tornado in town yesterday.
I think whoever is in charge of blowing the sirens got a little antsy and blew it when it didn't need to be. Some people say they saw a funnel cloud NE of town, but since the storm was moving NE, there was no reason to scare the whole town for a storm that was already past. Maybe they just sounded it because the national weather service issued a warning.
I think they jumped the gun because they were trying to avoid a situation like we had two years ago when a tornado came through and did a lot of damage and no sirens were sounded. There were multiple trees, fences, etc blown down in town, and out by Parkerfield there was a house destroyed and several headstones knocked over. They blamed it on straight line winds, which was a crock IMO.
It also damaged the roof of the college gymnasium. Never say never, just because we are between 2 rivers!
What took out the bell at the bank in the 80's was a funnel cloud not a tornado
Wasn't that the same storm that blew out the post office windows?
Hey genius, if a funnel cloud touches down, guess what it's called...
Give up?
A Tornado.
Let's do everyone a favor and put an end to this nonsense that because Ark City is in the confluence of 2 rivers, that it scares away tornadoes.
Silliness like that is going to get people killed. Don't continue it. If a tornado wants to go right down the center of the river, it will.
Tornadoes are formed thousands of feet in the sky from shear winds (anvil clouds and the like) and the terrain has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Don't be lulled into a false sense of safety by some BS story. You hear sirens, take cover.
really you are the smart one. did you figure out that it never did touch down then. thats why it only damaged the roofs of buildings. meaning it was a funnel cloud
Yeah, the river scared it away before it could touch down. Hee-hee! :)
If it damaged a building it TOUCHED DOWN! wich equals TORNADO! JJ can pull the old story and see what they called it back then.
JJ can pull the old story and see what they called it back then.
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Yea thanks :)
Can anyone give me a date, or just get close to the date.
The 80s were before the computer age had hit newspapers,
They are in bound volumes or on microfilm
You have to look at a year at a time, page by page ... very tedious to find something.
If someone can get it down to the month, i might give it a shot.
jj, it was right before graduation because they had to change the location to the Pig Palace.
has anyone said the year ?
I think it was 89 or 90.
the one that hit downtown was Mother's Day weekend in 1980 or perhaps the weekend before but it was in 1980...I am sure of that.
I would like to thank the city FOR blowing the sirens. I would rather take cover and not have a tornado than to NOT take cover and have one. It was a minor inconvenience for many but necessary. If you work in the hospital or nursing homes...you have to have time to get people moved.
It is a sign of the mood of society when something like a tornado siren can get people upset.
I was leaving WalMart
One did go through down town in the 80s. It was a funnel cloud that touched down therefore becoming a tornado. It was definately a Tornado- and if you lived here during that time- you know it was. Few weather related issues have caused that kind of damage here. Ark City isn't immune- if you think you are then you are foolish. We've had a lot of close calls, so it would not be a big surpriise to eventually get hit really bad. Think about the poor people of Greensburg- they never thought that their city would be wiped off the map either. It is random when it does strike and there is not anywhere that one wouldn't hit- tornados don't discriminate because we are between two rivers. The tornado that hit in the 80's was early
80's, I thought it was like 83, but the person saying 1980 could very well be correct. It blew the dome right off USB and blew out windows all over town. We did not get the same kind of warning as the other day, so people should appreciate the system. There was also damage to the North End of town I believe. I do remember seeing a lot of twisted and broken trees everywhere and I remember seeing a house that had a tree limb stuck right through the side of it- just in a perfect hole- when you looked in the house part of the branches was still there with leaves attached.
Actually I said 1980 but it could have been 1981...I remember the sirens and the concern since we owned a downtown business. I also remember the house we lived in and we were only there in 80 and 81..
There was another tornado around 89 or 90. I remember seeing it from the windows of LJS. The customers were all locked in the cooler and the power was out. However, I believe that one went around west of town and cut north by Strother Field just like this last front did. I believe there was another tornado which ran parallel with that one. It did lots of damage to cities north of here. Was it El Dorado? Can't remember.
I remember the storm which damaged downtown. I thought they called it "straight line winds" back then. James, you could probably ask USB or the post office for the year. They sustained a lot of damage.
Oh, and the tornado in 89'ish time killed someone north of town, if I remember right. I believe it was the one which took out the trees in the cemetery just west of hwy 77 north of town.
I believe the one that took out the bell was in 81 it also took the roof off the college gym. my family lived on 2nd street by the gym that year and i remember watching the funnel cloud pass over our house taking out trees. the one that went around town was in april of 91. just because a funnel cloud takes a roof off of a building and doesnt touch the ground it is still a funnel cloud.
If it takes the roof off that means it touched the roof, which makes it a tornado. Why is that such a hard concept for people to grasp?
a funnel-shaped cloud descending from a towering cumulus or cumulonimbus that, if it reaches the earth, becomes a tornado
a building isnt part of the earth.
I do not think a tornado has to actually touch a roof to rip it off. Does it?
Well, a tornado isn't a big solid physical object that just magically appears. It's made of wind. So if the wind from the tornado touches, then it touches.
Re: March 26...7:28 am.
Neither does Cole Aldrich.
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