Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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one tubby-tubby, two tubby-tubby, three tubby-tubby……
I bet you had that picture stored on your desktop.
Need one of those elementary school test desk dividers so you don’t make eye contact
It's my desktop background. Usually have it captioned with a couple of y'alls usernames but took them off 'cause didn't want it to look like I'm playing favorites.
MORE footage of the 06/05/25 Lubbock-Morton F4 tornado. The final stages of this monster as it is dissipating. Notice the flaring out of the base into a stovepipe and finally into the 'vacuum cleaner attachment' shape that is more characteristic with a weak landspout common in the drier western states of Colorado and New Mexico than a supercell tornado. When the base of the funnel is wider than the column, that indicates a weak rotation. From observation here, the ground wind speed of the final form of the Morton twister is probably in the high F1 to low F2 range before it dissipated entirely. The unusually low precipitation characteristic of the Morton storm meant that observers on the ground were treated to an almost completely unobstructed view of the ENTIRE storm cell structure, complete with it's inflow and outflow regions and the central meso core, which is extremely rare. At one point (captured in the video here), the entire column looked like the mushroom cloud of a nuclear detonation, showing the sheer power of that updraft core extending up from the ground and into the still-maturing cell above.
The Morton F4 was just one of up to 7 confirmed OTG (on the ground) on that day in the Morton region but the strongest one was mostly isolated in open fields, doing little damage though the parent storm was a prolific hail producer and it's low precipitation nature prompted fire warnings to be issued for some parts of the region as well due to the danger of lightning triggered brush fires. The other storms in the outbreak have accounted for serious injuries and at least 1 fatality northeast of Lubbock.
One common misconception is that "you cannot tell the strength of a tornado, even a rope thin one, just by looking at it". That is false, IF you know what you are looking for, and that is the base of the rotation. If the base is flared outward like a trumpet bell or a vacuum attachment with very fuzzy appearance due to loose dust hovering around it, it is weak. Usually indicating rotation of 70mph or lower, which is the average speed, and appearance of most non-supercell landspouts in the western states. However, if the base narrows to a fine V point, also known as a "drillbit", that is EXTREMELY dangerous. Drillbits are routinely observed with rope thin vortices and these are usually spinning at F3 all the way up to F5 like the infamous Edmonton, Canada rope F5, which ripped a farmhouse clean off it's foundations. Another danger associated with violent, narrow drillbits is that they can "wedge out" with no warning, ie., turning from a rope thin column into a mile-wide wedge in a matter of seconds, as in the cases of Jarrell, TX in 1997, Moore, OK, 2013, and most recently, Lake City AR, 2025.
The Morton F4 was just one of up to 7 confirmed OTG (on the ground) on that day in the Morton region but the strongest one was mostly isolated in open fields, doing little damage though the parent storm was a prolific hail producer and it's low precipitation nature prompted fire warnings to be issued for some parts of the region as well due to the danger of lightning triggered brush fires. The other storms in the outbreak have accounted for serious injuries and at least 1 fatality northeast of Lubbock.
One common misconception is that "you cannot tell the strength of a tornado, even a rope thin one, just by looking at it". That is false, IF you know what you are looking for, and that is the base of the rotation. If the base is flared outward like a trumpet bell or a vacuum attachment with very fuzzy appearance due to loose dust hovering around it, it is weak. Usually indicating rotation of 70mph or lower, which is the average speed, and appearance of most non-supercell landspouts in the western states. However, if the base narrows to a fine V point, also known as a "drillbit", that is EXTREMELY dangerous. Drillbits are routinely observed with rope thin vortices and these are usually spinning at F3 all the way up to F5 like the infamous Edmonton, Canada rope F5, which ripped a farmhouse clean off it's foundations. Another danger associated with violent, narrow drillbits is that they can "wedge out" with no warning, ie., turning from a rope thin column into a mile-wide wedge in a matter of seconds, as in the cases of Jarrell, TX in 1997, Moore, OK, 2013, and most recently, Lake City AR, 2025.
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Those can't be pineapples. Walked into a classroom one day and the teacher was teaching the kids that pineapples grow on trees.
I have seen some craziness at the salebarn before but this one takes the prize.
Charolais can be temperamental. Mostly a PITA from what I hear. I'll pass on them just in case.
