What are the odds of the $165 million dollar steel and glass Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas will get hit by a tornado in a given year? According to a tornado frequency map for Arkansas shows that the state gets 6 – 10 tornados per 1000 square miles or about 33 miles by 33 miles square area. With it’s topography and location Little Rock sits in the beeline of many of the deadly tornados that have a good chance to go ripping through one spring afternoon.
From 1950-1993 in Little Rock there were a total of 616 tornadoes (about 14 tornados a year on average), with 335 of them being classified as strong (F2 or greater intensity), and 45 of them were killer tornadoes causing 174 deaths. Weak tornadoes (F0 and F1) numbered 271, leaving 10 tornadoes without an F-scale value assigned to them. With an average of 14 tornados a year going through Little Rock area, about half of those tornados being "strong" while maybe 2 tornados may be the killer ones with it's widths being longer than the length of the Clinton Library.
Tornadoes occur primarily in the spring months, with a marked decline in the summer, and a secondary peak during the late fall. March, April, and May receive 56 percent of all tornadoes, 58 percent of strong tornadoes, 69 percent of killer tornadoes, and 89 percent of all fatalities for Little Rock. Here’s a typical tornado track.
One of the largest outbreak of tornados in a single day occurred in 1999. An F3 tornado ripped through Little Rock killing 3 people.
What may make Little Rock prone to tornado hits along the I-40 corridor near the Arkansas River Valley might be related to relief, and that the valley itself may actually cause thunderstorms to produce tornadoes. The Clinton Library sits near the Arkansas River and near Highway 30.
God forbid should anybody get injured or killed because of Clinton Library’s shards of glass flying through the air.
Besides from getting hit with a tornado, Little Rock also has a history of earthquakes to worry about.
And if that isn’t enough, the Arkansas River that runs through Little Rock where the Clinton Library sits is only but about 30 yards away. The Arkansas River has a history of historic floods with a flood stage set at 23 feet. Only 4 times over the last 60 years did the water rise higher than 23 feet. The highest recorded flood height was 30ft in 1943. Enough to inundate the lower portion of the Clinton Library and if the flood height get anyhigher than 30 feet then surely the Clinton Library will become the S.S. Lewinsky.
Now, looking at all of these potential disasters waiting to incur their wrath on the Clinton Library, it's probably better to erase a little bit of history than to have a false legacy in perpetuity. But then again we’d lose that important perspective in trying to understand how a liar can do this because “he can” and get away with it. Let’s see how the Clinton Library holds up against mother nature in 2005 onward. I pox thee!!
C'mon, get real with the pox. Don't blame me if it does happen.
I pox thee!
Ok......I'm kidding! Congrats on your "library" Clinton.
6 comments:
Bitter person. Typical person who lives in New Mexico.
I visited Little Rock 4 or 5 times because I have several friends in Little Rock -- it has a robust deaf community and great group of deaf folks.
It is a great town.
Have you ever visited the town and meet the Deaf people? I bet not.
Just a classic bitter person.
R-
I visited Plains, Georgia (Jimmy Carter's home) 2 or 3 times. What's your point Ridor? No, I'm not bitter, just a bit analytical since I'm a professional natural scientist. The location of Clinton's library made me think...tornado and flood risks. So, I did some digging around. Putting down facts on what I've found does not make me bitter. Bitter is when people rant at the world all the time.
You must be getting under Ridor's skin. :-)
Sherry
That's his problem if he can't handle certain factual information already verified. *shrugs*
You didn't get under my skin.
Most cannot. But what appalled me the most is that it was Clinton's day, you had to badmouth his day. You had to do things like this -- you need to get a life.
I love geography and is aware of risks, but life is full of risks. Let it go. Must you badmouth every Democrat's steps but silent about Republicans and conservatives' hypocritical beliefs?
You're full of it.
R-
That's because the Clinton Library didn't exactly put out the whole thing regarding the Lewinsky affair et al truthfully as did Jimmy Carter, Nixon, or even compared to Reagan, detailing even the most embarassed moments the Iran-Contra deal.
And no, I don't bath-mouth every Democrats. See, I'm not exactly blind to the only one-party deal like you perhaps? You tell me, are you?
Sounds like Barak Obama (D) who was elected in Illinois is a cool dude. Nothing more. I also like Democrat Gov. Richardson of New Mexico. Gary Locke of Washington State is another one. But our political opinions do differ!
Please, Ridor, don't be so dang presumptious about me. You know nothing! :)
More name calling on your part?
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