Regina, Saskatchewan Tornado, 1912

[Howard Robinson]

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/regina/cat2_events1.htm

If you read there it says wind speeds of over 500mph!
I would say that its way off!

 

[Richard Halter]

not getting anything out of that link on the tornados :?:

 

[Bob Hartig]

Not all that long ago, before Ted Fujita developed his by-now-familiar scale linking damage to wind speed, tornado winds were commonly thought to blow much faster than they actually do. Estimates of five and six hundred miles an hour were common, and some thought the winds could even exceed the speed of sound.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

I corrected the typo on his URL -- it should work.

Tim

 

[Jared Mysko]

Since we are on this topic I might as well put in my 2 cents...(after a quick search on google):

http://www.postcardworld.co.uk/cards/row/regina.jpg

http://library.usask.ca/90th/1910/1912.html

http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/regina/centra...al/cyclone.html

some of this stuff is new and I haven't even seen some of these old photos...

Jared