I know, I know. You’re all shocked.Apparently those giant tornado killers would only spawn different tornadoes and landspouts in other areas. Oh, and turn the midwest into a desert. Brice Evan Coffer just published a paper in the E-Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology explaining that the giant walls would ultimately fail and cause more harm than good.
The only thing I could find under “Tornado Wall” that is effective at anything is the Tornado wall card from Yugioh. Or Magic the Gathering. I’m not certain which.
At the end of the day, I’m not certain which one is cooler. An actual wall, 1,000 feet tall aimed at stop the winds from the Gulf of Mexico or a piece of paper…
Anyway, Brice Evan Coffer used the same computer model that the National Weather Service uses to investigate what would happen if similar atmospheric dynamics were present with and without the giant walls.
From the Abstract:
Simulations were performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting model in order to evaluate a proposal that called for the construction of three east–west “great walls” in the American Midwest to eliminate the major threat of tornadoes in Tornado Alley… the “tornado-preventing” walls, as proposed, are shown to have very little impact on the atmosphere… The short- term impacts of the taller walls imply possible desertification and areas with increased probability of non-supercellular tornadoes near the edges of the walls.
The rest of the paper is here: http://www.ejssm.org/ojs/index.php/ejssm/issue/current
