Lil devils x said:
Actually they were both on the ground in Forney at the same time, the car sitting in the field at reeder rd and 548 was thrown by the f2 at the same time diamond creek was hit by the f3. Much of the time, the damages done by one of the funnels is attributed to the other when you have a case of multiple funnels on the ground in the same area. Many people mistake one tornado for another. The damage on the other side of 548 was done by the smaller tornado. It was inititally thought that the f3 had done all of the damage, but it was determined later that it was not possible, that there were two separate paths.
The EF2 and EF3 were not on the ground in Forney at the same time. The EF2 did not strike Forney. There was a very brief EF0 associated with the EF3 that resulted in those photos you mentioned of two funnels, but according to the survey team, that EF0 produced no damage.
The reason we are going back and forth in this regards, is that when discussing what actually happens during tornado outbreaks and the issue of the multiple funnels and attempting to escape a tornado path, is that in the areas most prone for torandoes that this is far more difficult to do because the entire region is at risk for new tornadoes to form, and they can form in your escape route along the way.
You are completely misrepresenting tornadoes. They do not appear out of thin air unpredictably. They are always associated with a preexisting parent thunderstorm, in the cases of the worst tornado outbreaks, these are supercells: discrete and powerful rotating thunderstorms formed in areas of adequate wind shear and convective instability. As I stated in my initial post, someone able to properly read a map can effectively get out of the way of a dangerous storm
with enough advance warning.
When I headed out down 548, there were no tornado warnings for my area, 5 minutes later we were getting hit.
Provably untrue. The tornado warning for Forney was issued 25 minutes before the tornado hit. In fact, the only warning issued that day with
less than 20 minutes lead time was the one issued in Johnson county, still six minutes before the tornado touched down, and, for most of that warned area, still providing lead time in excess of ten minutes.
As for "the type of tornadoes you evacuate or hunker down for" One look at well built brick homes that were taken down to their foundation from the tornado that hit diamond creek makes you realize that is far from the case. There were no interior walls standing, bathtubs thrown. What saved lives was that the majority of people were not home at the time. Even those that were hunkered down in a bathtub were thrown from it.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/outdoor-articles/outdoor-living/dallas-area-tornado-damage-pho/63662
In the case of the Forney tornado, only two homes sustained EF-3 level damage with all walls collapsing. Neither were "reduced to their foundations" and despite appearances, people survive such tornado impacts regularly.
