Significant Tornado Events

[pohnpei]

rare damage of Stratton NE tornado 1990
One of that most stunning tornado ever recorded with appearance

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

rare damage of Stratton NE tornado 1990
One of that most stunning tornado ever recorded with appearanceView attachment 25555

Holy crap, damage pics from this thing are finally available! The way it disintegrated vehicles and scattered the remains for miles reminds me of Camp Crook, SD with what it did to that tractor. Also, this thing is easily in the top 5 of most photogenic tornadoes of all time.

 

[Western_KS_Wx]

rare damage of Stratton NE tornado 1990
One of that most stunning tornado ever recorded with appearanceView attachment 25555

That’s easily the most extreme vehicle damage I’ve ever seen from a tornado by a long shot, good lord. This thing also tracked in basically the middle of no where in very rural areas, meaning debris had little effect and that was just the raw power of the tornado shredding those vehicles like that. Can’t imagine what it would’ve done had it tracked through a populated city.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

That’s easily the most extreme vehicle damage I’ve ever seen from a tornado by a long shot, good lord. This thing also tracked in basically the middle of no where in very rural areas, meaning debris had little effect and that was just the raw power of the tornado shredding those vehicles like that. Can’t imagine what it would’ve done had it tracked through a populated city.

Camp Crook did something similar to a tractor, and it tracked through desolate rural areas with hardly any debris either.
If something like this tracked through a populated city it would likely only have time to throw vehicles against buildings, remote rural areas with little structures tend to allow for the incredible phenomena like this.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Camp Crook did something similar to a tractor, and it tracked through desolate rural areas with hardly any debris either.
If something like this tracked through a populated city it would likely only have time to throw vehicles against buildings, remote rural areas with little structures tend to allow for the incredible phenomena like this.

I thought the tornado may have thrown the tractor from the farm in Camp Crook, SD BACKWARDS into Montana.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

I thought the tornado may have thrown the tractor from the farm in Camp Crook, SD BACKWARDS into Montana.

Either way, crazy.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Either way, crazy.

Tje Chapman 2016 tornado tore some vehicles and farm equipment to shreds and as you probably remember was how the railroad tracks were ripped up and the bar bent.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Tje Chapman 2016 tornado tore some vehicles and farm equipment to shreds and as you probably remember was how the railroad tracks were ripped up and the bar bent.

Not like this though.
Come to think Jarrell still holds the most violent vehicle damage contender, as it literally disintegrated vehicles into grain-sized pieces and ground up the remains with mud and dirt. Even Stratton didn't do that.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Not like this though.
Come to think Jarrell still holds the most violent vehicle damage contender, as it literally disintegrated vehicles into grain-sized pieces and ground up the remains with mud and dirt. Even Stratton didn't do that.

There aren't very many things from other exceptionally violent tornadoes that can top the Jarrell 1997 tornado damage.

 

[SpotlightForRareTornadoes]

Camp Crook did something similar to a tractor, and it tracked through desolate rural areas with hardly any debris either.
If something like this tracked through a populated city it would likely only have time to throw vehicles against buildings, remote rural areas with little structures tend to allow for the incredible phenomena like this.

If that happened, then Camp Crook would've been the strongest tornado in MT.

 

[buckeye05]

If that happened, then Camp Crook would've been the strongest tornado in MT.

What do you mean “if” it happened? It’s well documented that it definitely did.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

What do you mean “if” it happened? It’s well documented that it definitely did.

I think he's getting at if it tracked through a highly populated area, it would likely have done even more crazy feats of damage.

 

[SilentShadow87]

That’s easily the most extreme vehicle damage I’ve ever seen from a tornado by a long shot, good lord. This thing also tracked in basically the middle of no where in very rural areas, meaning debris had little effect and that was just the raw power of the tornado shredding those vehicles like that. Can’t imagine what it would’ve done had it tracked through a populated city.

The Trenton/Stratton and Bakersfield, TX tornadoes were definitely stronger than any of the official F5 tornadoes that year. Honestly, I would have rated Hesston and Goessel as F4.

What do you mean “if” it happened? It’s well documented that it definitely did.

I don't have any doubt that Camp Crook was EF5 strength, and possibly one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded. And I don't see any reason why damage to vehicles and vegetation shouldn't be official DIs.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

The Trenton/Stratton and Bakersfield, TX tornadoes were definitely stronger than any of the official F5 tornadoes that year. Honestly, I would have rated Hesston and Goessel as F4.


I don't have any doubt that Camp Crook was EF5 strength, and possibly one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded. And I don't see any reason why damage to vehicles and vegetation shouldn't be official DIs.

Bakersfield was no doubt a high-end F5, it likely would've received that rating had it tracked through a major populated area.

 

[buckeye05]

Regarding Hesston and Goessel, a user on here was indeed able to dig up proof that both of these tornadoes slabbed anchor-bolted homes and produced some pretty intense contextual damage. With that said, I do agree that Stratton and Bakersfield Valley were even more violent than those two.