My lab manual for the course I'm taking on climate and waters (Philip Suckling's Studies in Weather and Climate) on tornados rated F5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale:
F5: 261-318 mph Incredible Tornado. Incredible damage: Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distance to disintegrate; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 300 ft (100 m); trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur.
Editorial comment: Needs more exclamation points. :)
Edit: Fine. Because you all have no imaginations, this is what was in my head:
INCREDIBLE TORNADO! INCREDIBLE DAMAGEZ!!! STRONG FRAME HOUSES NO LONGER IN KANSAS TOTO!!!!1!1! SERIOSLY WERE TALKING LIKE CAR-SIZED SHIT FLYING AT YOU!!!!! TREES DEBARKED! THEY CAN NO LONGER BARK PPL!!! INCREDIBLE PHENOMENA WILL OCCUR!!!! POSSIBLY PSYCHICS!!!! ONLY $39.95!!!!!
What sort of incredible phenomena are we talking about here?
Doo doo do do doo
F5 - The Finger of God! Well, at least that is what one of the dudes in the movie "Twister" called it :-)
Tornadoes have always fascinated me.
The largest moving object that a person will likely ever see.
The most destructive wind on Earth.
An F5 is almost - almost - inconceivable.
And the May 3, 1999 tornado that ripped a SW-NE line through Oklahoma is believed to have topped 318 mph briefly - making it, technically, an F6.
I think.
Damn, but I love twisters.
Can you tell?