November 13, 200520 yr They tried making us evacuate. ISU is undefated when tornadoes hit, 2-0. There was some pretty widespread carnage and homes destroyed. I'm bad luck for the city.
November 13, 200520 yr Author If it's the same tornado they showed on the news, it may have been an F3.
November 13, 200520 yr I saw this on the news earlier. Creepy stuff. You really are bad luck. Maybe Gage gets it from you.
November 13, 200520 yr Author Last 4 times I have been to Ames there has been serious severe weather or a tornado. It's creepy s***.
November 13, 200520 yr Author http://www.kcci.com/video/index.html Watch the Woodward tornado clip, this was by Ames. CRAZY
November 13, 200520 yr QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Nov 13, 2005 -> 01:04 AM) Lost Nation is now officially lost. That joke would have been better if Lost Nation was located where I remember it. -- I just looked on a map, and I was off by say, 100 miles.
November 13, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Nov 13, 2005 -> 01:06 AM) That joke would have been better if Lost Nation was located where I remember it. -- I just looked on a map, and I was off by say, 100 miles. Heh. All us smart kids in the student lots didn't listen to the police telling us to go to Hilton, namely because it'd take 15 minutes to get there. Didn't rain a bit. I think I'ma merge with my other tornado thread.
November 13, 200520 yr Author Football fans flee tornado At least one killed in Iowa tornadoes WOODWARD, Iowa (AP) -- Tornadoes swept across central Iowa on Saturday, damaging homes in several towns and sending college football fans running from a stadium for shelter. At least person was killed in the storm, and authorities Saturday evening were evacuating Stratford, a town of about 746 residents 50 miles northwest of Des Moines. "Half the town's gone," said Bob Smith, who has lived in Stratford for 12 years. Search and rescue teams found the body of another Stratford resident, Lucille Runyan, 80. She was killed when the tornado hit, said her daughter-in-law, Kim Runyan. In Woodward, 30 miles to the south, 20 to 40 homes were severely damaged, Dallas County Sheriff Brian Gilbert said. He said emergency crews had searched house-to-house and hadn't found any victims by evening. "The big problem right now is power lines are down and gas lines are ruptured," Gilbert said. "We are encouraging people to stay out of the area." National Weather Service meteorologist Craig Cogil said it appeared that at least three tornadoes touched down Saturday afternoon. In Ames, football fans gathering for the Iowa State-Colorado game were cleared from the stands and told to take shelter in the nearby basketball arena as the tornado sirens sounded. The storm hit on the edge of the city, where city spokeswoman Susan Gwiasda said the damage was mostly broken windows and downed power lines. "We dodged a bullet with the track of that storm," Iowa State University spokesman John McCarroll said. He said officials had prepared for the chance of dangerous weather during the game. Tornadoes are rare this late in the year. There have been 23 November tornadoes in Iowa since 1950, all but six of them recorded in the years 1975 and 1988, according to Weather Service records. Last weekend, however, another tornado ripped through western Kentucky and Southwest Indiana, killing 22 people. On Saturday, at least two tornadoes hit in Boone County, with major damage in the Boxholm and Pilot Mound areas, a few miles south of Stratford, a dispatcher said. A convenience store in Woodward was also damaged. Richard Albracht, 59, was heading for his basement in Woodward when he saw shingles start to fly and heard the sirens. He said he went outside after the storm passed and found several homes damaged and an empty restaurant with only one wall left standing. "It's pretty bad. There's houses destroyed and roofs off of houses," he said. John Kiley and his wife were watching television at their home in rural Woodward when they heard the warning. "I saw it two, three minutes before it hit," Kiley said. "My wife said go to the basement. I said no. We got in the car and went down the road. I looked out; it hit our house." His house, barn, garage and another building were severely damaged, and many of his sheep were injured, neighbor Doug Jimeson said. "There were sheep everywhere," Jimeson said.
November 13, 200520 yr How far from the football stadium was this and how bad would it have been had the path of it went by the footbal stadium?
November 13, 200520 yr Author A mile or two. Apparently there was one that might have touched down a little closer. If it would've went through the football stadium, there probably would've been 20,000 or so of the 50,000 that were f***ed.
November 15, 200520 yr Here's a site of some of the pics of the tornado. http://www.extremeinstability.com/05-11-12-4.htm
November 15, 200520 yr Heads, what city was the last pic with the white car and everything demolished in the background?
November 15, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 11:09 PM) Do you know what the population is off hand? I could probably find out. 700-800 maybe?
November 15, 200520 yr My grandparents live in Webster County. Dayton, Iowa to be exact. I don't know if you know where that is, but they were pretty close to it.
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