Weather Radio Recall, Nappanee Tornado of 10/18

[quasigeostrophy]

Weather Radios Recalled by Oregon Scientific Due to Failure to Receive National Weather Service Alerts - Photos and specific model #s at the link. They're all variations of handheld/portable models.

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Apparently the Nappanee, IN tornado of Thursday night was ~1/2 mile wide, was down for ~20 miles, and was an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale (winds 136-165 mph).

From The Indianapolis Star:
- 160 mph winds rake Nappanee, damage hundreds of structures
- Damage Photos

Where the hell is Nappanee, IN?

Comments

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Damn.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

All I can say is "wow" to those photos. I have an idea of what that's like.

Thanks also for the weather radio link. Do you have opinions on particular weather radios? I'm looking at this one (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009V2YV/ref=ord_cart_shr/103-8036310-0797424?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance).