Since when do tornados sound like bombs?
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Were there clouds? No DEW can penetrate clouds, anon. Besides which, tornadoes have been bursting houses for centuries of recorded events.
Sauce Mr Designer?
Fact. What do you think clouds are? They block the passage of light. In our design activity, we took it for granted that attempting to engage below 30,000 feet (tropopause) was not a likely case, since that was the typical height of clouds. We had very detailed beam propagation models. Even ordinary air would limit co-altitude propagation from ambient humidity. Engaging ground targets was an amusement to consider, but did not constitute any actual threat objective. Why bother, when you had artillery?
Water clouds would soak up a power beam in a matter of kilometers, or less at lower power. Smoke clouds would stop it dead. And there is the little problem that if you cannot see your target, you cannot shoot at it.
So, yeah, my career at doing DEW weapon design and analysis trumps the complete lack of sauce for your speculation.
Hey homie, ever heard of rocket triggered lightning?
Rocket-Triggered Lightning
Now imagine a modified wire guided missile (of which we already have) to be fired from above (plane) through the clouds to the ground.....
This seems like a form of DIRECTING ENERGY to me. Mr. Designer...
You want to play with word games? Go ahead. It won't change the fact that DEW stands for directed energy weapon, i.e., laser or particle beams. Particle beams were proven impractical in the 1980s.
Rocket-triggered lightning (as shown) is just another form of lightning rod. How do you propose to shoot a rocket to the ground and deliberately hit anything? That requires a guidance and control system and a targeting system to find the target. Do you realize how large such missiles are? Happy landings if the rocket takes a lightning bolt before it hits the ground. You are aware that airplanes must take special measures to dissipate lightning strikes while they are in the air? The province of a wild tantasy is that it doesn't correspond to anything that would be designed.
The end result is that neither DEWs nor rockets were present at a tornado, and tornadoes result in such drastic ambient pressure drops that houses will "explode" from the pressure the air still in them.