Tornado Radio
 |
 Redcat Racing Volcano s30 Tornado s30 Chassis Fuel Tank Radio Tray Set Lot NEW $22.98 Time Remaining: 13h 23m Buy It Now for only: $22.98 |
 Redcat Racing Tornado EPX PRO 1 10 Scale Brushless Buggy With 24GHz Radio NEW $139.99 Time Remaining: 14h 39m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 Tornado S30 Nitro Buggy 1 10 Scale Redcat Racing w 24GHz Radio Red Green $169.99 Time Remaining: 14d 15h 37m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 Tornado S30 Nitro Buggy 1 10 Scale Redcat Racing w 24GHz Radio Orange Black $169.99 Time Remaining: 14d 15h 20m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 Super Fast Nitro RC TORNADO S30 Buggy RedCat 4x4 1 10 Radio Controlled car $156.00 Time Remaining: 13d 14h 2m Buy It Now for only: $156.00 |
 Redcat Racing Tornado S30 4x4 Buggy Radio Tray w RX Box $7.99 Time Remaining: 5d 18h 2m Buy It Now for only: $7.99 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Nitro 4x4 Offroad 18 Buggy 24Ghz Radio Yellow Black $175.99 Time Remaining: 14d 7h 42m Buy It Now for only: $175.99 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Nitro 4x4 Offroad 18 Buggy 24Ghz Radio Green Silver $175.99 Time Remaining: 14d 7h 42m Buy It Now for only: $175.99 |
 Tornado S30 Nitro Buggy 1 10 Scale Redcat Racing w 24GHz Radio Red Green NEW $145.99 Time Remaining: 17h 27m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 81034 Tyres 1 8 Scale For HSP Tornado Radio Remote Control RC Bazooka Buggy $8.88 Time Remaining: 3d 22h 36m Buy It Now for only: $8.88 |
 Super Fast Nitro RC TORNADO S30 Buggy RedCat 4x4 1 10 Radio Controlled car $174.99 Time Remaining: 27d 11h 32m Buy It Now for only: $174.99 |
 Radio Control Invincible Tornado Twister Stunt Lighted Musical Magic Car Red $24.99 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 59m Buy It Now for only: $24.99 |
 Tornado MERCEDES BENZ Electric RC Radio Remote Control 1 10 Race Racing Car $48.90 Time Remaining: 6d 10h 53m Buy It Now for only: $48.90 |
 60023 Radio Plate Post 1 8 Parts HSP Tornado $6.26 Time Remaining: 21d 12h 1m Buy It Now for only: $6.26 |
 Tornado S30 Nitro Buggy 1 10 Scale Redcat Racing w 24GHz Radio Orange Black $169.99 Time Remaining: 28d 16h 44m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Scale Nitro Buggy 24ghz radio $189.00 Time Remaining: 11d 19h 51m Buy It Now for only: $189.00 |
 Redcat Racing Tornado S30 Radio Controlled Car With Upgrades Traxxas HSP HPI $53.00 (18 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 17h 35m |
 Tornado S30 Nitro Buggy 1 10 Scale Redcat Racing w 24GHz Radio Red Green $169.99 Time Remaining: 26d 23h 19m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 Radio Control Lighted Musical Invincible Tornado Twister Stunt Magic Car Red $24.99 Time Remaining: 27d 21h 3m Buy It Now for only: $24.99 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Scale Nitro Buggy 24ghz radio $189.99 Time Remaining: 3d 17h 23m Buy It Now for only: $189.99 |
 81615 Alloy Radio Tray 1 8 Scale Bazooka Tornado For HSP Himoto Spare Part $9.07 Time Remaining: 27d 21h 1m Buy It Now for only: $9.07 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Scale Nitro Buggy 24ghz radio $189.99 Time Remaining: 3d 17h 34m Buy It Now for only: $189.99 |
 HSP RADIO TRAY RUDDER PLATE 81009 FOR 1 8 SCALE RC NITRO TORNADO BAZOOKA $11.68 Time Remaining: 16d 23h 31m Buy It Now for only: $11.68 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Scale Nitro Buggy 24ghz radio shockwave exceed HSP $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 22h 58m |
 Tornado EPX PRO Buggy 1 10 Scale Brushless Electric with 24 Radio $169.99 Time Remaining: 14h 36m Buy It Now for only: $169.99 |
 Redcat Racing Tornado S30 Off Road Buggy with 24 ghz Radio $174.99 Time Remaining: 29d 13h 32m Buy It Now for only: $174.99 |
 Redcat Tornado S30 1 10 Scale Nitro RC Buggy 4wd 24GHz Radio System New $174.99 Time Remaining: 8d 12h 35m Buy It Now for only: $174.99 |
 6 CH 24GHz BlitzRCWorks Tornado V2 RTF Radio Remote Control Helicopter $249.00 Time Remaining: 9d 19h 16m Buy It Now for only: $249.00 |
 Tornado S30 Radio Controled 110 Nitro Gas Buggy Purple $198.00 Time Remaining: 6d 18h Buy It Now for only: $198.00 |
 Tornado S30 Radio Controled 110 Nitro Gas Buggy Red Gn $198.00 Time Remaining: 6d 18h 49m Buy It Now for only: $198.00 |
Tornado Radio
F5 Oklahoma Tornado: An Officer's Story
It was 7:15 PM and my fellow officer and I were having dinner a few miles south of Moore, Oklahoma. We had heard rumors throughout the day about the possibility of severe storms (when the fine meteorologists of OK City metro give you a heads up, you'd better listen). Someone decided to do just that, turning on the radio to hear: "if you want to survive his storm, don't be above ground." I was a commissioned police officer but not on duty at the moment. However that would quickly change. The radio hadn't been on five minutes before things went crazy in the restaurant—yelling, total panic. I got up to see what was happening behind the counter to see employees jumping under furniture, while others rushed to their cars.
An F-5 tornado had spun across the Oklahoma country side and had sneaked up to the doorstep of Moore, Oklahoma. My partner and I ran out the door and literally climbed the building to get a better look. From our vantage point we could clearly see and hear a monster on the ground--not only the train like sound--but almost the sound of a sustained explosion.
Incomprehensible Destruction
We ran to an available truck and started in the direction of the storm. We were moving up the interstate as the tornado crossed in front of us. It was an amazing sight. It looked as though the ground was in the sky and likewise that the sky was in the ground. A black cloud of debris resembling a blender moved through Moore. I had never been afraid of tornadoes. In fact, I was drawn to them. This storm would change that view. As we sped in the direction of the moving storm, we saw all kinds of debris including something that fell onto the road maybe a mile in front of us, bounced across the four lanes, and landed over a guard rail. We had no idea that we had seen a car fall out of the sky. It was compacted to almost half its size. Mud, metal and grass. It was so small it didn't even look like a car. We did a close inspection and were convinced it was an empty vehicle. Later that night, my police chief's daughter would tell us she saw two pairs of lights in the sky. She didn't know she was looking at headlights. We immediately ran to the worst-hit path. We were near an overpass where we later learned several people had been swept away. A commissioned state officer had assumed a command post for that particular location. We identified ourselves as officers, asking what we could do. He closely examined our credentials, copied the vital information on his clip board, and put us to work in on-duty status. We were assigned areas of duty by the the officer in command as individual--one man units---because that's how new this emergency was. We walked through the destruction, helping as many as possible, making mental maps, and taking field notes. Already there were lines of people walking hand in hand sweeping large areas around both sides if the interstate in an attempt to locate those who had disappeared from underneath the overpass, where the tornado had literally taken them, from what they thought would be a safe haven.
The first hour in such a situation teaches one that there truly is only so much one person can do. It was amazing to behold two story apartment buildings sheared off just above the foundation. All those people and the essence of their existence was blown out over half mile path. Because it had just happened, those who could were just then emerging from the destruction trying to assess the situation. The stench of natural gas, the sound of it escaping from ruptured lines, confused wounded people looking for loved ones. Welcome to nature at its most horrific.
Search and Rescue Intensifies
We continued in our search-and-rescue efforts. But Mother Nature would still out-rank our efforts in more than one instance. You may have every motivation imaginable to want to move a fifteen thousand pound wall to rescue victims, but even with eight men you just can't do it. It's frustrating to be so small in the face of something so powerful. We did all we could with each trip, and with each trip, more officers, more equipment, better briefings and more success in getting the injured to the Triage centers. Sometimes in our search through the damage there were audible voices where people were trying to dig out and other times not so audible. Sometimes we couldn't tell what we were hearing: animal, human, or the uneasy movement of layers of broken building materials.
I don't recall ever being that overwhelmed that many times, that close together. Any officer there would tell you the same. It lasted all night, and continued for about ten days, with brave volunteers from all over Oklahoma and even surrounding states helping out.
Aftermath of an F5 Tornado
I hear everyone describe tornado devastation as a war zone. To me it was more like jet-powered bull dozers on the ground-half mile across--and I am not even sure that covers it. It is actually unthinkable until you see it. Pictures of Greensburg Kansas, which I only saw on TV and on Storm chase websites, are all very familiar, but there's no way to get it unless you are actually there. The national weather service, the Norman office and all the meteorologists in city gave it their best that day, and as a result, many people actually listened. I personally talked to many who had survived by lying in a ditch, crawling into a concrete culvert, some other thing that, literally put them below the surface of the ground. They listened to the warnings, and they tried to do exactly as they were told, thank God. Otherwise it would have been much worse. The poor people who took shelter under the overpass experienced the then relatively unknown danger of accelerated winds. They were doing the best they could at the moment. Several tried but didn't make it to the overpass though it was reported they ran for it only to be engulfed by the enormous storm. One of the most amazing things I heard was from a man who survived the in that location by hanging on to the guard rail which he described as like white knuckling the wing of a passenger jet in flight. This would have to be close to right. A 737 jet cruises at about 350 mph and we now know the wind under the overpass tends to be faster than in the storm itself. He had hung on through winds that were in excess of three hundred miles per hour. One of the most amazing things I saw was a full sheet of plywood seamlessly driven into what appeared to be a concrete wall. I along with several other officers spent a good five minutes just trying to actually accept what we were really looking at. The impossible was hanging fifteen feet up in the air on the side of what was obviously a block building. It was as though it had been made that way.
Be Prepared, Have a Plan
I had never been asked about my account of this day, and had never really thought about sharing it, until I became friends with Rory Groves. I am please to make this contribution to his website. May 3rd 1999 was so impressive it still seems like last week, and it's now past ten years ago.
When you hear a tornado warning, have a plan and act on it for you and your family as though your life depends on it, because it does. It's anybody's guess as to the seriousness of the consequences if you do not. It is easier to pay heed to warnings, and make intelligent decisions, while you still have time, than it is to recover from being caught off guard.
About the Author
Written by former LE Officer Sam Cornette.
Edited and submitted by Rory Groves, a weather preparedness advocate and developer of
Weather Defender
, desktop
weather tracking
software.
Looking for weather radio advice. I want one that will only sound an alert for tornadoes.?
I live in Northeast Ohio. We get tornado warnings and watches a few times a year. I want a radio that will wake me with an alert for tornado warnings and watches in my county. I don't want to be alert for thunderstorms, or other weather events ... just tornadoes.
I have gone to all of the websites that people direct others too, and there is no answer (that I can find to my question). I can find the ones that will alert me ... but I only wants alerts for Tornados in my county.
Thanks in advance. : )
The lower price basic weather radios will alarm for any warnings if it detects any tone alert signal.
If you pay a little more for new SAME coded warnings radio, then once you program your county SAME into the radio, only warnings issued for your county will alert on your radio.
Make sure you put the rght county code into your weather radio.
If you pay even more, you can get a radio that will read the SAME Burst code. Then you will be able choose to have it only alarm for certain types of warnings.
Best place to shop are usually in specialized Catalogs (online) stores. Otherwise, I would check Radio Shack or any science and electronic or outdoor adventure type stores. These people who work there tend to know more about your local area and the best types of radio for you.
Finally, before you program your radio to only come on for tornadoes warnings, I would like to mention a few things based on my experience.
1. Any severe thunderstorm (SVR) can produce a deadly tornado rapidly...with little or no advanced warning. For this reason, knowing a severe thunderstorm that has formed in your area may alert you to take action sooner if or when a tornado does form. This can allow you more time to get to a place of safety...especialy if this occurs in the middle of the night.
2. A forecaster can activate the SAME alert on a severe weather statement (SVR) that talks about the tornado or updates the rapidly changing conditions. All forecasters can alarm any statement if he thinks the updated informtion is critical information for public to know for the protection of life. You will miss this information if you only program your radio for alerts for tornado warnings (TOR) only.
3. All flash flooding warnings are sent out with a SAME alerted too. Flash flooding/Flooding (FFW) events are the number one killers. A deadly flash flooding event can develop in your area even though no rain has occured prior to the flooding event. If you get in the path of where the flash flooding waters will drain, you can experience a deadly flooding event even though you local area has been dry and the closest rain storm are miles away.
These are just a few examples of why I would not limit the alarm to activate only for tornado warnings only.
The Human Tornado Radio Spot
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Comments are closed.