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Re: Spring Tornadic Activity
      Wed May 04 2005 11:56 PM

Sorry for the long-delayed response, but it's likely most of the tornadoes in California were on the weak end of things, based primarily off of sheer probability plus the lack of favorable large-scale conditions (instability, dynamics, and so on) to support the stronger tornadoes. The terrain can muck things up a little bit -- albeit the extent to which that can occur may be the subject of some debate -- but generally, there likely wasn't enough energy or vertical wind shear (e.g. wind changing speed and direction with height, generally from S at the surface to W or NW not far aloft & increasing in magnitude) to support any of the massive tornadoes.

It's pretty rare for regions outside of tornado alley (give or take some areas north and south) & into the Ohio River valley to see anything stronger than an F3. It happens, sure, but the majority of those events occur where tornado frequencies are the greatest to begin with. It's interesting to note too that the U.S. hasn't seen an "official" F5 since the May 3, 1999 tornado that passed just south of Oklahoma City.

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* Eye replacement Keith234 Wed May 04 2005 11:56 PM
. * * Re: Eye replacement Clark   Fri Feb 18 2005 01:23 AM
. * * Spring Tornadic Activity B.C.Francis   Sat Apr 02 2005 01:34 PM
. * * Re: Spring Tornadic Activity Clark   Sun Apr 03 2005 12:44 AM
. * * Re: Spring Tornadic Activity B.C.Francis   Sun Apr 03 2005 03:04 PM
. * * Re: Spring Tornadic Activity Clark   Wed May 04 2005 11:56 PM
. * * Re: Spring Tornadic Activity B.C.Francis   Wed May 11 2005 02:02 PM
. * * Re: Spring Tornadic Activity Clark   Thu May 12 2005 04:27 PM
. * * Questions and Answers to Landfall Probability Numbers B.C.Francis   Tue May 03 2005 12:00 PM
. * * Re: Questions and Answers to Landfall Probability Numbers B.C.Francis   Tue May 03 2005 12:10 PM
. * * Re: Eye replacement Clark   Tue Aug 31 2004 09:28 PM
. * * Re: Eye replacement scott   Fri Oct 22 2004 09:47 PM
. * * Re: Eye replacement Keith234   Fri Oct 22 2004 09:51 PM
. * * Re: Eye replacement LI Phil   Tue Aug 31 2004 08:37 PM
. * * Re: Eye replacement Keith234   Tue Aug 31 2004 09:28 PM

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