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Here's what happens when you're inside this deadly force of nature from those who experienced it. Tornadoes are extremely loud. People have described them as sounding like a freight train or locomotive. Says another: "I heard one heck of a freight train barreling through the field.
The air pressure drops and it can feel like you're on a plane coming in for a landing. Your ears pop. Says one tornado rider: "The pressure was what really got us.
Our ears popped several times within just a few seconds, and then there was a dead calm that happened almost immediately. The pressure inside my ears was unthinkable. I thought I was deaf. One man wrote in Esquire about his experience of being picked up by a tornado.
He says: "Ever been in a deep sleep and someone's yelling, but you can barely hear them? It was something like that.
I could hear everything, feel stuff, but I couldn't see anything. I had my eyes closed, just keeping the wind and debris from getting in. I was being struck by debris but couldn't really feel it. I just felt a deep pain. At one point I took a blow to the head. I didn't know how much longer I could handle the abuse.
One person described the sensation as being like a rollercoaster: "It felt like just black, and it felt like a hard rollercoaster ride. I was jerked back and forth a few times and then everything stopped. The American Meteorological Society's official definition is "a violent rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often but not always visible as a funnel cloud" [source: American Meteorological Society].
In the lower atmosphere, increased wind speeds create a horizontal but invisible spinning tube. Once the storm rumbles through, rising air tilts this tube from its horizontal position to the more recognizable vertical funnel shape.
From there, tornadoes can have wind speeds up to mph and cause a great deal of destruction where they touch the Earth. They uproot trees, flatten houses and send cars flying through the air like Frisbees. The sound is often described as a freight train barreling through your home.
You can learn more about tornadoes and how they're rated in How Tornadoes Work. So if a tornado can fling a car and turn a house into toothpicks, how in the world can anyone survive standing in the eye of the beast and what's it like in there?
We'll get two firsthand accounts next. As far as we can tell, there are only two people on record that claim to have been in the center of a tornado and lived. Not surprisingly, both of them were farmers. The first man was Will Keller, from Greensburg, Kan. On June 22, , Mr. Keller was with his family, checking out the damage to his wheat crop from a hailstorm that had just passed. He spotted an umbrella-shaped cloud in the near distance and had a feeling that a tornado might develop.
Before he knew it, there were three funnel clouds heading his way in a hurry. Keller rushed his family to their storm cellar and, before climbing in himself, decided to take another look.
He'd seen many tornadoes over the years, so he wasn't afraid, but remained cautious. Kellar said he was transfixed by the twister, and he held his position until it was directly overhead. Once inside the swirling cloud, Keller said that everything was "as still as death.
When he looked up, he saw the circular opening directly overhead, and estimated it to be roughly 50 to feet in diameter and about a half a mile high. The rotating cloud walls were made clearly visible by constant bursts of lightning that "zigzagged from side to side. The tornado then passed, skipping over his house and smashing the home of his neighbor. The second account from Roy Hall does nothing to disprove Keller's story. Hall was a soybean farmer in McKinnet, Texas.
One spring afternoon in , Hall and his family were outside when a nasty storm approached. He sent his wife and kids inside to hide under a bed but stayed to watch the coming storm. He claims to have seen green sheets of rain just before the tornado formed. After baseball -sized hail started coming down, he went inside. He then heard a loud rumbling followed by complete silence. The walls began to shake, and to his surprise, his roof was ripped away and thrown into the woods nearby.
At this point, he looked up to find the tornado directly overhead. He described the inside as a smooth wall of clouds, with smaller twisters swirling around the inside before breaking free. Once again, non-stop lightning created a bluish light , enabling him to see everything clearly. And then, just like that, the tornado passed and the sky turned sunny. The same storm killed Texans, but Hall and his family survived. Sign up for our Newsletter!
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