Significant Tornado Events

[Brice Wood]

Pretty strange debris pattern left by the Cabarrus NC EF2 on 2/7/2020, this tornado was applied an EF2 rating with wind estimated 125mph, it covered a 6.41mi path with the maximum width reaching only 70 yrds.The tornado dropped in a heavily populated area, minor roof and exterior wall damage were done before the tornado suddenly leveled an big, well-anchored FR12 villa and left an clear debris dragging mark and then quickly vanished. I don't how this could happen, but it weird "pick a house to destroy" feature really reminds me of the Brunswick NC EF3 this year and Rixeyville VA F4 in 2001
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It most likely had vortices well over 150 mph in it and one of those vortices hit that home

 

[WIL9287]

Pretty strange debris pattern left by the Cabarrus NC EF2 on 2/7/2020, this tornado was applied an EF2 rating with wind estimated 125mph, it covered a 6.41mi path with the maximum width reaching only 70 yrds.The tornado dropped in a heavily populated area, minor roof and exterior wall damage were done before the tornado suddenly leveled an big, well-anchored FR12 villa and left an clear debris dragging mark and then quickly vanished. I don't how this could happen, but it weird "pick a house to destroy" feature really reminds me of the Brunswick NC EF3 this year and Rixeyville VA F4 in 2001
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This is actually from the February 26, 2018, Clarksville TN tornado. Not February 7, 2020, in North Carolina.

 

[Marshal79344]

This image from Udall has got to be the worst photo of tornado damage I have in my archives from the 1950s

 

[warneagle]

Udall was absolutely vicious. Probably the most intense tornado of the 1950s, with Flint being the other major contender.

 

[Casuarina Head]

Udall was absolutely vicious. Probably the most intense tornado of the 1950s, with Flint being the other major contender.

Perhaps Hudsonville and Colfax are close behind as well, given extreme debris granulation in both cases.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

I have had strong suspicion that Houston/New Wren MS tornado (the one preceding Smithville) was greater than EF3 and MEG did a poor job of surveying/documenting it. Those damage pics only increase the validity of that notion.

Check out Marshal79344's previous post on it: https://talkweather.com/threads/significant-tornado-events.1276/page-74#post-49972

It produced impressive ground scouring like & was a large wedge like Smithville and likely had EF5 potential. Really, that day was just incredible, the sheer amount of violent tornadoes that day. There was way more than 4 EF5s that day, this tornado is yet more proof of that.

 

[Austin Dawg]

Marshal79344 said:
The EF3 before Smithville deserves more recognition than it ever received
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It did a lot of damage before recycling to make the Smithville tornado. This was a photo of that tornado towards the end of the F3 life when it was coming over Cotton Gin Hill on Hwy 8 just west of Amory after hitting New Wren. I found some other videos of the storm in Houston and just before it hit New Wren. I will dig them up and post them if you all are interested.

 

[TH2002]

Marshal79344 said:
The EF3 before Smithville deserves more recognition than it ever received
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It did a lot of damage before recycling to make the Smithville tornado. This was a photo of that tornado towards the end of the F3 life when it was coming over Cotton Gin Hill on Hwy 8 just west of Amory after hitting New Wren. I found some other videos of the storm in Houston and just before it hit New Wren. I will dig them up and post them if you all are interested.

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Sure, post them please!

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

Some notable post-2000 Siberian/Far Eastern Russian tornadoes:

6/7/2020 Yerunakovo Tornado Outbreak:
An outbreak of 4 tornadoes spawned by the same supercell struck around the village of Yerunakovo. 3 were F1s and 1 was an F2.

7/29/2014 Bureyskoe Reservoir Tornado Outbreak:
This outbreak produced 5 tornadoes and is the easternmost recorded tornado outbreak in Russia. All tornadoes were F1s.

7/25/2001 Alexandrovskoe F3:
This is the easternmost F3+ tornado in Russia. It tracked 43 miles and was nearly a mile-wide. It leveled forests but hit no structures.

http://tornado.maps.psu.ru/

 

[zvl5316]

7/29/2014 Bureyskoe Reservoir Tornado Outbreak

Three days before that event, there was also an F4 tornado in Khangai, Mongolia.


This might be the most mysterious violent tornado in the social media age. Though offically rated F4, I guess it might have the potential of F5.

On July 12, 2014, there was also a memorable hailstorm on the beach of Ob River in Siberia. North Asia saw some historical severe weather that summer:

 

[locomusic01]

So, I finally got in touch with one of the people I was really hoping to interview about 5/3/99. I'll probably be including her story in my article, but it's just too good not to mention here. Her son loved to ride his four-wheeler, so she'd gotten him a new full-face helmet for his birthday. She forgot to take it inside the day before so it was still in the back seat of her car.

She was driving near Pennsylvania Ave when she saw the tornado approaching. She didn't think she'd have time to get to safety anywhere, so she grabbed the helmet, put it on and laid down in a little ditch along the side of the road ("like a luge racer" is how she described it, but I think she meant the skeleton).

From the location she described, it looks like the tornado pretty much passed directly over her. Her car ended up clear across Lost Creek on what's now the western edge of Eastlake Estates - well over a quarter of a mile away. She got hit in the back by what she thinks was a big tree limb, but other than a few scrapes and bruises, she was pretty much fine.

(Her car, needless to say, was not.)

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

More information about the 1984 Ivanovo tornado and the Sheremetyevo Airport tornado. Unfortunately, I don't speak Russian so I have no idea what some of this says.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

Three days before that event, there was also an F4 tornado in Khangai, Mongolia.


This might be the most mysterious violent tornado in the social media age. Though offically rated F4, I guess it might have the potential of F5.

On July 12, 2014, there was also a memorable hailstorm on the beach of Ob River in Siberia. North Asia saw some historical severe weather that summer:

What town in Mongolia did this tornado occur near?

 

[zvl5316]

What town in Mongolia did this tornado occur near?

Here are some detailed reports of 2014 Mongolia tornado in Mongolian. Unluckily, the figures are all vanished now:
https://dnn.mn/зуны-зуд-буюу-хашаатад-боссон-хар-салхины-мөрөөр/
And the 2014 event might not be the only violent tornado in Mongolia:
http://namem.gov.mn/view/334

 

[zvl5316]

On July 18, 1904, two tornadoes hit Tainan in Taiwan under Japanese colonization. This tornado happened in the monsoon tail of a typhoon made landfall in mainland China. 5 were killed and 80 were injuried. Officers made some surveys of the tornado and plotted its path.

 

[speedbump305]

Y’all wanna hear a story about my Dad and the Jarrell Tornado?

 

[andyhb]

Marshal79344 said:
The EF3 before Smithville deserves more recognition than it ever received
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It did a lot of damage before recycling to make the Smithville tornado. This was a photo of that tornado towards the end of the F3 life when it was coming over Cotton Gin Hill on Hwy 8 just west of Amory after hitting New Wren. I found some other videos of the storm in Houston and just before it hit New Wren. I will dig them up and post them if you all are interested.

Looks like the Henryville IN tornado when it was near New Pekin.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

I found the scouring scar left by that 2014 Mongolia tornado.
Approx Start Point: 47.2654, 103.5264
Approx End Point: 47.2709, 103.2627

 

[TH2002]

More information about the 1984 Ivanovo tornado. Unfortunately, I don't speak Russian so I have no idea what some of this says.

The paper says:

NATURAL DISASTER
Large, powerful tornadoes sweep through multiple areas in the Ivanovo Oblast

The disaster came unexpectedly. Have we ever seen anything like this in our homeland? Moreover, forecasters warned the previous day "Warm and cold fronts expected to collide. Heavy rain and thunderstorms with strong winds may occur in this area." But because of what happened in some districts of the Ivanovo Oblast, the emergency commission set up after the disaster classified the event as a devastating tornado.

I'll translate the rest later lol, plus the two pictures are from the F1 that struck Sheremetyevo Airport just in case you didn't know.

 

[Robinson lee]

This is some of the vehicle and grassland damage caused by this tornado, and it is also one of the most impressive vehicle damage I have seen outside North America. The tornado happened at an altitude of about 1800m, which is absolutely one of the incredible tornadoes