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Amazing Image Of The Greensburg Tornado.

#1 Postby Category 5 » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:24 pm

WOW!

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#2 Postby RL3AO » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:26 pm

Looks more like a parallelogram than a wedge. But a great picture.
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#3 Postby Cyclenall » Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:02 pm

Is this image modified in any way? I remember the same picture only it was closer up to the tornado and it was totally night outside with a film-shot because only lightning would reveal what it looked like. That is a great image.
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#4 Postby RL3AO » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:18 pm

Hmm. Good point Cycle. The storm hit Greensburg at 9:38pm CDT with sunset being at 8:27pm CDT and civil twilight being at 8:56pm CDT.

And you can't see where the sun is, but if I had to guess that photo was taken more than 15 minutes before sunset. That is doctored and/or not the Greensburg tornado.

EDIT: Tornado touched down at 9:04pm, 8 minutes after civil twilight and 37 minutes after sunset.
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#5 Postby wxmann_91 » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:09 pm

RL3AO wrote:Hmm. Good point Cycle. The storm hit Greensburg at 9:38pm CDT with sunset being at 8:27pm CDT and civil twilight being at 8:56pm CDT.

And you can't see where the sun is, but if I had to guess that photo was taken more than 15 minutes before sunset. That is doctored and/or not the Greensburg tornado.

EDIT: Tornado touched down at 9:04pm, 8 minutes after civil twilight and 37 minutes after sunset.

The lightning is what is providing the illumination. The storm structure of the Greensburg supercell was similar to this in other photos. Photographer may have added some contrast or tinkered with colors a bit, but this is of the Greensburg tornado.
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#6 Postby cheezyWXguy » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:44 pm

RL3AO wrote:Hmm. Good point Cycle. The storm hit Greensburg at 9:38pm CDT with sunset being at 8:27pm CDT and civil twilight being at 8:56pm CDT.

And you can't see where the sun is, but if I had to guess that photo was taken more than 15 minutes before sunset. That is doctored and/or not the Greensburg tornado.

EDIT: Tornado touched down at 9:04pm, 8 minutes after civil twilight and 37 minutes after sunset.

I can see the sun...its that red dot in the bottom left...either someone is really good at editing photos or thats a picture of a different but equally massive tornado. Nonetheless a good picture
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#7 Postby RL3AO » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:47 pm

cheezyWXguy wrote:I can see the sun...its that red dot in the bottom left...either someone is really good at editing photos or thats a picture of a different but equally massive tornado. Nonetheless a good picture


Those could be tail lights.
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#8 Postby Category 5 » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:51 pm

I've seen enough images of the greensburg tornado to know that the tornado in the picture IS the greensburg tornado. Now as for the editing, I don't know what was done.

It's still a cool image.
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Re: Amazing Image Of The Greensburg Tornado.

#9 Postby Stephanie » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:56 pm

That is impressive - and SCARY!! :eek:
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#10 Postby wxmann_91 » Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:49 am

cheezyWXguy wrote:
RL3AO wrote:Hmm. Good point Cycle. The storm hit Greensburg at 9:38pm CDT with sunset being at 8:27pm CDT and civil twilight being at 8:56pm CDT.

And you can't see where the sun is, but if I had to guess that photo was taken more than 15 minutes before sunset. That is doctored and/or not the Greensburg tornado.

EDIT: Tornado touched down at 9:04pm, 8 minutes after civil twilight and 37 minutes after sunset.

I can see the sun...its that red dot in the bottom left...either someone is really good at editing photos or thats a picture of a different but equally massive tornado. Nonetheless a good picture

No, those are lights from other cars. This is not a doctored or different photo. I've seen many pics of the Greensburg tornado and they were all similar to this one.
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