I will believe the Saudis don't see any upcoming problems with Ghawar when they cancel one of their projects due to low oil prices. If they continue to be full steam ahead with increasing their capacity then I think they are aware that Ghawar may not be as robust in 5 years time as they would like us to believe.
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2008) — A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth's surface.
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:04 am Post subject: Re: How Intense Will Storms Get? New Model Helps Answer Ques
Inflation is not limited to prices. The Fujita Scale will have to add F6 at 319 MPH.
Category F5
Potential damage: Incredible damage. Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 m (109 yd); trees debarked; steel reinforced concrete structures badly damaged; high-rise buildings have significant structural deformation; incredible phenomena will occur.
The Enhanced Fujita scale classifies anything over 200 MPH as EF5.
A Category 5 hurricane has wind speeds at 156 MPH. Can you imagine a storm with sustained winds of 200 MPH? There would be nothing left standing.
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The most significant tornado of the outbreak touched down just southwest of the community of Amber, Oklahoma, and headed northeast, parallel to Interstate 44, just after another tornado had passed over the airport in Chickasha, OK. (Note: it may be argued that the storms touching down in Chickasha and Amber were the same storm; however, for weather tracking purposes, each touchdown is counted as a separate tornado which is most probable.) The storm continued moving northeast, destroying the community of Bridge Creek and crossing I-44 just north of Newcastle.
The tornado then crossed the Canadian River, passing into far southern Oklahoma City. As it passed over Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, around 6:54 p.m., a Doppler On Wheels (DOW: Wurman et al. 1997, Wurman 2001) mobile Doppler weather radar detected winds of 301 mph (484 km/h), +/- 20 mph inside the tornado at a height of 32 m AGL (Wurman et al. 2007)[1] (The old record was a 257-268 mph wind measurement from a Doppler weather radar near Red Rock, Oklahoma, as reported in a formal publication by Bluestein et al. (1993)).
I didn't live here at the time, but the buzz was that there was a debate at the time as to whether this was an F6:
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This tornado's remarkable wind speed (at the high extreme of the Fujita Scale's F5) led to much speculation that the scale would be modified to include an F6 category, due to the winds possibly exceeding 320 mph (515 km/h). This speculation ignored the fact that the Fujita scale measures damage rather than windspeed, since the scale was developed prior to the introduction of Doppler weather radar.
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