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From: Greg St. Pierre <StrmNut@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 00:21:56 EST
Fwd Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:16:32 -0500
Subject: Ball Lighting and Tornadoes


Hi list,

The following pertinent article was sent to me from an off-topic
list by:

markland@rockisland.com (Lee Markland)

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Good article on the relationship between ball lightning and
tornados...

http://www.padrak.com/ine/ELEWIS3.html

whch contains the following paragraph....

Both tornadoes and ball lightning(21) are associated with
anomalously high energy output. Both have been reported to
scorch the ground or vegetation. F. Montgomery reported that
vegetation along the path of the Blackwell tornado was wilted or
looked burned and that the tornado "dried the ground." Both ball
lightning and tornadoes are associated with considerable
electricity. Some ball lightning constantly discharge
electricity, and by measuring the change of the earth electric
and magnetic field in the vicinity of a tornado, some tornado
researchers(22) have estimated that tornadoes are associated
with a steady current of hundreds of Amperes for minutes at a
time. This would be hundreds of times more than the electrical
output of a thunderstorm. This high output of electricity and
light radiation suggests energy production. Electrical
discharges from tiny plasmoids are also shown by the micrometer
sized plasmoid marks produced by Matsumoto, and Nardi and
Bostick(23).

and from the same article......

Other anomalous phenomena, such as people reporting being lifted
up by tornadoes without any wind or a car being lifted up and
carried by an egg-shaped BL phenomena only a few meters in
diameter, directly contradict the fundamental hypotheses of
prior theories, such as space-time and mass, and thus evidence
fundamental hypotheses. For example, a person named Dr. Pettier
saw fir trees being plucked up, and then "he felt a kind of
pressure from above; he noticed an unusual smell of ozone; then
he felt himself raised up, and this not by the wind, for it was
calm, but as though by some invisible force." Also, "on many
trees the foliage was scorched(25)." This particular tornado was
also associated with ball lightning and round holes with sharp
edges that were left in window panes, like the photographs and
SEM pictures of pits and tunnels in materials that Matsumoto has
shown in his articles. The learning of these phenomena is
important.