Funning EF4 was actually something refers to a 'mesoscale accident' in my idea. The condition that day was too common for a 4-km wide violent tornado. Also, there was only 2 tornadoes that day and both tornadoes were generated by one isolated supercell. That supercell was actually the only obvious storm that day. Another is Sheyang EF3+ tornado with compared narrow path east of Funning:
Giving a Bangladesh tornado an F5 rating is pretty much impossible due to the very poor construction in the region unless if it hits some reinforced concrete structure or something. I have not heard any Bangladesh tornado doing that.
Actually one of the tornado in 1996-05-13 did hit some concrete building and was rated F4:
I know there was one tornado in Bangladesh from the 1960s that Fujita gave an F4 rating.
I beg to differ, that day was a disaster waiting to happen. Here in the USA, we never see updraft profiles so tall and so vertical. There's so much stretching there, which makes the updraft extremely efficient at utilizing wind shear at its disposal. The wind shear present, given that reanalysis sounding, is easily enough to support a violent tornado to form.
I remember reading somewhere that around 85 people were killed by the Goliad Tornado of 1902 when it hit the church with absolutely no warning, no roar, no visibility, it just blew up all of a sudden.
The report said about 50 were killed in the church in Goliad tornado. The highest death toll (>70)caused by tornado in single building happened in Cooper Pants factory during Gainesville tornado. I guess there might be some more tragic events in South Asia but actually data there is little.
Which Gainesville Tornado, the 1903 or 1936 one? Both of them hit factories.
This is something even harder to understand than the disappearance of significant tornadoes in Michigan.
It was 1936 Gainesville Tornado. It is really an unfortunate city experienced two tornadoes kill more than 100 people within half a century.
Speaking of high tornadic death totals have you heard of the April 11, 1878 Stameeu China tornado. It was mentioned in the April 1878 monthly weather review and reportedly killed 10,000 people. I’m not sure if the death total is accurate though.
The 1903 tornado struck the Gainesville Cotton Mill, where many of the workers were children. The damage was mostly to the top few floors, some of which partially collapsed. A number of children were blown out of the building altogether. To make matters worse, the top of a huge standpipe was carried some distance by the tornado and thrown just in front of the mill - directly on top of a crowd of people who thought they'd managed to escape. The numbers are fuzzy, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 people were killed in/around the mill.
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From the figures, I guess there was probably a tornado of F3+ intensity. But in Chinese account, the death toll is highly varied. Some said it killed 10000+ people while some said over a thousand were killed or injuried.
That lower death total would still make it one of the deadliest tornadoes in world history.
