These are National Emergency Action Command Post (NEACP) aircraft, of which there are only 4.

They link up with CincPac and CincLant ABNCPs, along with Navy's TACAMO to form the Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN).

This network has kept us all alive for over 40 years. Literally.

That two of these aircraft are out of service is classified at least Top Secret.

And here it is published by British and French media.

How could they know?

The US AIR FORCE TOLD THEM!

So, was this action by the Russian weather machines? Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee can shed some light on this incident.

I remember when they went into service. They were amazingly quiet compared to the other 4 engined jets there. Except in sub -20 degree weather when they were ear splitting.

In the 70s there was only three CO2 molecules per 10,000 air molecules so tornadic winds did not have the power to harm these planes. But now that the atmosphere is super concentrated with a dangerous level of four CO2 molecules per 10,000 air molecules as well as other dangerous electrolytes, we are rapidly approaching a time where even a gentle breeze will be enough to instantly disintegrate not only an entire squadron of such aircraft, but will also level entire cities.

IIRC, one was stationed at Barksdale AFB, Bossier City, LA for a time.

Putting half of the aircraft in tornado alley isn’t quite as stupid as porting all of the Atlantic aircraft carriers in one spot.

The smart deployment would be one at Offutt, one at Barksdale, one at Andrews, and one in the west.

I guess when the AF spec designers figured that you only had to withstand the heat of nuclear bombs, since they generate just a slight breeze.

This isn't the first time this has happened. We lost a bunch of B-36s to tornadoes years ago. At the time it stimulated improvements in Air Force weather forecasting. I hope they figure out hot to improve it further, so this doesn't keep happening.

“Two were damaged June 16 at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska when a tornado whipped through the area with little advance warning.”

Tornados do that. Might be news to the reporter though.

With the advent of Doppler radars they improved tornado warning quite a bit. Still the impact area is only approximate and the warning time is still just minutes. Not enough time to pull an aircraft off the flight line.

Very good. A clear thinker.

“The E-4B is a 747 that has been reinforced to protect against the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear blast and is shielded from a thermal blast.”

I am so glad that the public can read this and find it comforting that the president can survive a small kiloton bomb blast as these aircraft were designed and built in the seventies for technology known at that time. They could no more stand up to today’s weapons than a stack of cards.

In remembering that the weapons used in Japan were a 16 kiloton yield, a 20 megaton weapon of today detonated within or over a large city area would result in a fireball and thermal pulse so huge that people would get second degree burns at a radius of over 28 miles from ground zero, which corresponds to a circular area of over 56 miles in diameter. From only one such bomb, therefore, as much as 2,460 square miles of the earth would be vaporized, burned, or blasted away—and that’s the destruction resulting only from the fireball and thermal pulse alone. If a 20-megaton bomb were to explode over downtown Chicago, people living in the farthest suburbs away from the city center would get second and third degree burns, and in most cases anything flammable that wasn’t initially vaporized would catch fire and burn to the ground. Temperatures of a nuclear explosion within the immediate area of the blast reach those in the interior of the sun, about 100,000,000° Celsius.

There is no aircraft other than one in space out of reach of the blast, the heat, the force of the fireball, and the days of extreme gamma and beta radiation, that can withstand this type of today’s capacity for as little as a brief second. And if they are delivered, they won’t be one. They will be over a thousand incoming ICBM’s, to use a phrase, so total devastation will be the intent. Mainly because we will also launch the same devastation “back at ya.”

Oh, and these planes can not stay in the air for days, whether it makes any difference or not, without fuel. And there won’t be any to get. Happy landings.

rwood

They have always had two there, for many years. This is the first time they have been hit by a tornado. The tornados came in no notice and there was not time to move the aircraft. The bulk of the damage was outside and west of the base.

Yeah, their design calls for the ability to withstand the heat of nuclear bombs.

The engineers never considered the heat that the planes would see from increased global warming climate change.

They might as well turn them into amusement park rides for all the good they'll do now.

A Bloody LIMEY urinalist and a frig-gen FROG urinalist told them.

I live about 12 miles straight west of Offutt. About 15 minutes before this happened the wife and I were standing out on the driveway watching the storms come in. I pointed out that I thought the clouds passing over the neighborhood moving east appeared to be rotating. Sure enough they issued a tornado warning for the east side of the county. There were actually two tornadoes, one that went through the base and another one that went through some neighborhoods nearby. There were several houses severely damaged and or destroyed and lots of other houses with minor damage as well.

We spent the entire night bailing out our sump pits because the power was out. That was a pain in the butt but after hearing what happened I am very thankful that I still have a house.

http://www.omaha.com/weather/preliminary-estimates-show-million-worth-of-damage-after-storm/article_30a42a4c-579c-11e7-b61c-eb48383d9c24.html

http://www.omaha.com/news/military/tornado-damaged-at-least-jets-as-it-tore-through-offutt/article_52668112-5859-11e7-a08d-471ebf4d711f.html

Blast radius is large, but not that big. 4-8 mile diameter is more reasonable estimate. Depends on bomb eqiv weight.

As I said earlier today, with today’s military, we’d never win WWIII.

(article) :"Two E-4B National Airborne Operations Center aircraft stationed at Offutt AFB received storm damage.."

Mariner :" That two of these aircraft are out of service is classified at least Top Secret."

Well now , the NORKS know where to find them !
They can probably adjust their missels appropriately

If it was due to a Tornado then blame the British.