A Coast Guard Boat in a Tornado!

For many years, I've loved listening to Owl City; this affinity has carried down to my children who, along with me, particularly enjoy their latest album. While each song in the album is an excellent story in its own right, we all like the tale told in The Tornado. This led to my own recounting of a time, many years ago, when I experienced some extreme weather while aboard a Coast Guard buoy tender in the Long Island Sound. The kids, in their own manner of storytelling, have begun to tell this story as, "the time daddy was inside the middle of a tornado". While I may not have been in the very center of the storm, it may be fun to explore some historical data and see how close my boat was to the actual tornado.