# Holy Crap! That's some wind there

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-thats-some-wind-there/448757 "2008-05-09T23:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-thats-some-wind-there/448757/1 "2008-05-09T23:53:47Z")

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[Alabama tornado](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6493822557562250643&q=alabama+tornado&ei=fOEkSI3mB4HA4AKmquTjCQ&hl=en).

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-thats-some-wind-there/448757/2 "2008-05-10T02:11:05Z")

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Yike! Was that the entire tip of the tornado that passed by there? It was that small?

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-thats-some-wind-there/448757/3 "2008-05-10T04:21:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunspace]  
Yike! Was that the entire tip of the tornado that passed by there? It was that small?  
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I’m not sure. It could be, or it could be that only a small part of the funnel was intense enough to do the cloud formation thing. I think I now understand why those half-mile wide funnels are so destructive.