9/11 Weather and Field Effects

Stab wounds


Figure 9. Hurricane Andrew 1992 Source: website:	Figure 10. Hurricane Andrew 1992 Source:	Figure 11. Hurricane Andrew 1992 Source: website:


Figure 12. Source:	Figure 13. Straw through wood Source:


Figure 14. Hurricane Andrew, 1992 Source:	Figure 15. Hurricane Andrew 1992 Source:

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Levitation

Figure 16. How did this car get here? Why is the fence still vertical?
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Picher, Okla. - "I swear I could see cars floating," said Herman Hernandez, 68. "And there was a roar, louder and louder." (Tornado, Saturday May 10, 2008)

(5/12/08) Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Figure 17. None of these three silver cars appear to have tumbled. The silver car on the far left appears totally unharmed. The silver car on the right appears to have a broken back window, but no other damage. How could the first and third cars be virtually undammaged if the middle car had blown in from elsewhere? If that middle car had been parked there, how could it have been flipped up and rotated while the other cars remained virtually undamaged? And, where did that wood structure come from? Why didn't it damage the parking lot if it had been blown through there? (Hurricane Wilma)
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Figure 18. Source:	Figure 19. Hurricane aftermath Source:


Figure 20. Katrina Source:	Figure 21. Katrina Source:


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"Dancing Cars"

Video 1. Tornado appears to levitates cars. A curious phenomenon.
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Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 1:41am BST 08/08/2007

Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.


	Figure 51. In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person (after 9/11/01) Source:

In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.

Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a Harry Potter book, the University of St Andrews team has created an 'incredible levitation effects' by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together.

Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate But they say that, in principle at least, the same effect could be used to levitate bigger objects too, even a person.

The Casimir force is a consequence of quantum mechanics, the theory that describes the world of atoms and subatomic particles that is not only the most successful theory of physics but also the most baffling.

The force is due to neither electrical charge or gravity, for example, but the fluctuations in all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening empty space between the objects and is one reason atoms stick together, also explaining a "dry glue" effect that enables a gecko to walk across a ceiling.

Now, using a special lens of a kind that has already been built, Prof Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin report in the New Journal of Physics they can engineer the Casimir force to repel, rather than attact.

Because the Casimir force causes problems for nanotechnologists, who are trying to build electrical circuits and tiny mechanical devices on silicon chips, among other things, the team believes the feat could initially be used to stop tiny objects from sticking to each other.

Prof Leonhardt explained,

"The Casimir force is the ultimate cause of friction in the n

ano-world, in particular in some microelectromechanical systems.

Such systems already play an important role - for example tiny mechanical devices which triggers a car airbag to inflate or those which power tiny 'lab on chip' devices used for drugs testing or chemical analysis.

Micro or nano machines could run smoother and with less or no friction at all if one can manipulate the force."

Though it is possible to levitate objects as big as humans, scientists are a long way off developing the technology for such feats, said Dr Philbin.

The practicalities of designing the lens to do this are daunting but not impossible and levitation "could happen over quite a distance".

Prof Leonhardt leads one of four teams - three of them in Britain - to have put forward a theory in a peer-reviewed journal to achieve invisibility by making light waves flow around an object - just as a river flows undisturbed around a smooth rock.

Reference 1. Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, 08/08/2007
(8/08/07) Source:

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Missing material


Figure 25. 0 Source:	Figure 26. Katrina Source:	Figure 27. Katrina, Sections of roof are missing while the trees appear full of folliage. Source:

Figure 28. Georgia (Tornado, Saturday May 10, 2008)
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Skewered?

Figure 29. (Tornado or Hurrican) It appears this car was dropped down onto this tree like a shishkobob, except the tree is undamaged higher up. The rescue workers appear shocked by what they see.
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Katrina


	Figure 31. Katrina Source:

Figure 30. Katrina -- Why are the leaves still on the trees? Source:	Figure 32. Katrina Source:

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Now you see it, now you don't.


Figure 33. March 2001 (3/01) Source:	Figure 34. Where did the buildings go? (2002) Source:

Now you see it, now you don't.


Figure 35a. Tornado damage Source:	Figure 35b. Tornado damage Source:

F5 Tornado Damage

Figure 36. This is classic F5 damage. The Bridge Creek/Moore, Oklahoma, tornado of 3 May 1999 leveled this house, swept the foundation almost completely clean, shredded the house remains into small pieces and scattered the debris downwind to the northeast (rear). The house was relatively well-contructed with slab-to-wall anchor bolts evenly spaced around the bottom plate. Some of those bolts can be seen in this photo, protruding upward from just inside the edges of the concrete slab.
(5/3/1999) Source: webpage:

Figure 37. T5: "Cars levitated, house walls standing"
Source: NOAA FAQ

Tornado, Myrtle Beach, SC, July 6, 2001


Figure 38. 7/6/01, Myrtle Beach, SC. (7/6/01) Source:	Figure 39. Source:


	Figure 41. Visible (7/6/01) Source:

Figure 40. Composite (7/6/01) Source:	Figure 42. Infrared (7/6/01) Source:

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Power


Figure 43. Supercell Thunderstorm Source:	Figure 44. Tornado and lightning Source: webpage1: webpage:

Figure 45. Thunderstorm in East Sydney, AU
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Electrical Discharges inside Tornados

Any farmer from America's "tornado alley (Oklahoma and Kansas, primarily)" will testify to the extreme violence of a tornado vortex.

Tornados are associated with electrical storms. Scientists have been arguing for years as to whether storm electricity helps spawn tornados and whether electrical effects are important attributes of the funnels. The first eyewitness account is descriptive of obvious electrical activity inside a funnel. The second bit of testimony is even more interesting since it describes long vertical light columns (like "neon tubes) associated with tornado funnels. The tubes tie in with occasional observations of aurora-like columns above distant thunderstorms.

A farmer living near Greensburg, Kansas on 22 June 1928 had the rare "privilege" of looking right up into a tornado funnel while standing at the entrance of his cyclone cellar.

"As I paused to look I saw that the lower end, which had been sweeping the ground, was beginning to rise. I knew what that meant, so I kept my position. I knew that I was comparatively safe and I knew that if the tornado again dipped I could drop down and close the door before any harm could be done.

"At last the great shaggy end of the funnel hung directly overhead. Everything was as still as death. There was a strong gassy odor and it seemed that I could not breathe. There was a screaming, hissing sound coming directly from the end of the funnel.

"I looked up and to my astonishment I saw right up into the heart of the tornado!

"There was a circular opening in the center of the funnel, about 50 or 100 feet in diameter, and extending straight upward for a distance of at least 1&Mac218;2 mile, as best I could judge under the circumstances. The walls of this opening were of rotating clouds and the whole was made brilliantly visible by constant flashes of lightning which zigzagged from side to side." (Monthly Weather Review, 58: 205, 1930)

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The 25 May 1955 tornado at Blackwell, Oklahoma, was a particularly strong tornado. Lee Hunter saw the light-column effect vividly.

"The funnel from the cloud to the ground was lit up. It was a steady, deep blue light - very bright. It had an orange color fire in the centre from the cloud to the ground. As it came along my field, it took a swath about 100 yards wide. As it swung from left to right, it looked like a giant neon tube in the air or a Bagman at a railroad crossing. As it swung along the ground level, the orange fire or electricity would gush out from the bottom of the funnel, and the updraft would take it up in the air causing a terrific light - and it was gone!" (Journal of Meteorology, 14:284, 1957)

Source: Handbook of Unusual Phenomena: Eyewitness Accounts of Nature's Greatest Mysteries by William R Corliss

Reference 2. Electrical Discharges inside Tornados
Source: http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/environment/wipeout.htm

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Supercells

Figure 47. (Mirrored image) Supercell of the century :)
Mushroom May 2002 , Location: Oklahoma, USA , "I managed to capture some awesome shots on this cell. This one I have mirrored in the digital darkroom in order to portray what it might have looked like from distance."
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Figure 48. (Mirrored image) Mushroom May 2002 , Location: Oklahoma, USA , "I managed to capture some awesome shots on this cell. This one I have mirrored in the digital darkroom in order to portray what it might have looked like from distance." Source: and more and webpage: Supercell.jpg	Figure 49. Absolutely amazing! "Probably my best lightning shot. The supercell was the most explosive I have ever witnessed with incessant lightning & thunder." Supercell Lightning by Mark Humpage Source: webpage1: webpage: supercellbackground_mark.jpg Source: webpage1: webpage: supercell bkground (Medium).jpg


Figure 50. Thunderstorm forming over Lusk by B. Keagen of Casper, Wyoming. Source:	Figure 51. Source: webpage: ,	Figure 52. Supercell Source: webpage:


Figure 53. Circulation Thurs 20 May 2004, , Location: East of Denver, Colorado, The entire cell was now looking likely to drop a wall cloud. It just never got there! Very photogenic though. Source: website:	Figure 54. Supercell Source:

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Storm Architecture


Figure 55a. A Turn for the Worse Source: USA Today Tuesday 19 June 2001 Source: webpage: original a_turn_for_the_worse_lb_s.jpg, a_turn_for_the_worse_lb_ss.jpg, a_turn_for_the_worse_lb_sss.jpg,	Figure 55b. A Turn for the Worse Source: USA Today Tuesday 19 June 2001 Source: webpage: a_turn_for_the_worse_lbc.jpg, a_turn_for_the_worse_lbc_s.jpg, a_turn_for_the_worse_lbc_ss.jpg	Figure 56. Hurricane cross section Source: webpage:


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Misc.


Figure 76. Flipped Car (from tornado or hurricane) Source:	Figure 77. Interesting rust. (from tornado or hurricane) Source:

Figure 78. Selective "rustification"
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Figure 79. From tornado.
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F0 Tornado Damage	F1 Tornado Damage	F2 Tornado Damage

Figure 80. Here are broken tree branches and only superficial house damage; so this scene was rated F0. Elsewhere in the tornado path through Columbus GA, on 13 March 1997, there was isolated F1 damage. (3/13/1997) Source: webpage:	Figure 81. This wood-frame house was pushed bodily off its concrete block foundation by the Spencer SD tornado of 30 May 1998 (a tornado which later did marginal F4 damage in the town of Spencer). Here, the house had no bottom anchoring at all. It was simply resting on its foundation by gravity alone; so it was easy for relatively weak winds near the edge of the tornado to slide the house aside with minor structural damage. It experienced partial roof removal, only on the windward (near) side; therefore, this damage site was rated F1. (5/30/1998) Source: webpage:	Figure 82. On 3 January 2000, a tornado struck this wood-frame home near Paris, MS. The roof and one large outer wall segment came off; while the remaining inner and outer walls were left (barely) standing. Quality of construction must be considered when rating damage; since the F scale is best applied to well-built homes. Here, the wall-to-roof and wall-to-wall attachments were very weak or nonexistent; so this is only marginal F2 damage. (1/3/2000) Source: webpage:

F3 Tornado Damage	F4 Tornado Damage	F5 Tornado Damage

Figure 83. All but a few parts of the outer and inner walls were toppled or removed from this house in Moore, OK, on 3 May 1999. For a well-built home, any removal of inner walls constitutes F3 damage; so this site was rated high-end F3. The same tornado caused F5 damage in several locations elsewhere in its path. (5/3/1999) Source: webpage:	Figure 84. A tornado in Moore, OK on 3 May 1999 demolished this house (foreground) down to a short pile of debris on and around the foundation, with no walls standing. In order for this scene to be rated F5, the debris must have been swept away, leaving behind evidence that the house was well-attached to its slab. [The brick house in the left background suffered F3 damage, with a mixture of inner and outer walls removed.] This tornado caused an immense amount of F4 damage on its path through the southern portion of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, and several locales of F5 damage. (5/3/1999) Source: webpage:	Figure 85. This is classic F5 damage. The Bridge Creek/Moore, Oklahoma, tornado of 3 May 1999 leveled this house, swept the foundation almost completely clean, shredded the house remains into small pieces and scattered the debris downwind to the northeast (rear). The house was relatively well-contructed with slab-to-wall anchor bolts evenly spaced around the bottom plate. Some of those bolts can be seen in this photo, protruding upward from just inside the edges of the concrete slab. (5/3/1999) Source: webpage:

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