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Severe Weather Threat 4/25-4/26, 2024 - (Thursday, Friday)

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I don’t want this post to come across as melodramatic. And I know debris ball doesn’t always correlate with tornado intensity, but outside of 4/27/11 and as many years as I’ve been following weather, I can’t really recall a time this many individual storms have kicked up nasty debris balls like this.
 
Today's preliminary tornado count of 94 is the highest for the month of April since the 183 on April 12th, 2020.
 
It's been eerily quiet in the western parts of Bennington and Blair, NE. Those areas got hit hard, if the radar returns were any indication. Could mean they were not as hard hit as the radar returns let on, or the damage is really that bad...

edit: Oops, wrong thread. Mods please move as necessary.
 
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TH2002 made a mention about how western parts of Blaire and Bennington have been eerily quiet. Mentioned that the damage isn’t that bad, or it could be really bad that they can’t even get pics in right now. I say a little bit of both, no cell service to get any pictures taken and put them on social media. Also hinting that some of the damage isn’t really worthy of posting. Now the bad side of all this(even tho not any of this is good but this is the worst for what I’m about say.) That tornado had winds at 202 knots, that is 230 mph winds at or around 300. Well inside this EF5 range. That being said, this tornado definitely had EF5 winds, in my opinion and I know we’re on a drought of “the EF5.” We tend to say “oh well this tornado will do it” and then it doesn’t end up being an EF5. However I’m thinking there’s plenty of hot takes, of what could be, not saying it will, but this tornado, at its highest peak, hit a exceptionally well-constructed home, may just give us an EF5? We’ll have to find out for sure in the coming days.
 
Brice W said:
TH2002 made a mention about how western parts of Blaire and Bennington have been eerily quiet. Mentioned that the damage isn’t that bad, or it could be really bad that they can’t even get pics in right now. I say a little bit of both, no cell service to get any pictures taken and put them on social media. Also hinting that some of the damage isn’t really worthy of posting. Now the bad side of all this(even tho not any of this is good but this is the worst for what I’m about say.) That tornado had winds at 202 knots, that is 230 mph winds at or around 300. Well inside this EF5 range. That being said, this tornado definitely had EF5 winds, in my opinion and I know we’re on a drought of “the EF5.” We tend to say “oh well this tornado will do it” and then it doesn’t end up being an EF5. However I’m thinking there’s plenty of hot takes, of what could be, not saying it will, but this tornado, at its highest peak, hit a exceptionally well-constructed home, may just give us an EF5? We’ll have to find out for sure in the coming days.
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I think there were so many places hit today, it’s going to take some time for all the damage pictures to trickle in to give us a full picture of each tornado’s intensity.
 
Brice W said:
TH2002 made a mention about how western parts of Blaire and Bennington have been eerily quiet. Mentioned that the damage isn’t that bad, or it could be really bad that they can’t even get pics in right now. I say a little bit of both, no cell service to get any pictures taken and put them on social media. Also hinting that some of the damage isn’t really worthy of posting. Now the bad side of all this(even tho not any of this is good but this is the worst for what I’m about say.) That tornado had winds at 202 knots, that is 230 mph winds at or around 300. Well inside this EF5 range. That being said, this tornado definitely had EF5 winds, in my opinion and I know we’re on a drought of “the EF5.” We tend to say “oh well this tornado will do it” and then it doesn’t end up being an EF5. However I’m thinking there’s plenty of hot takes, of what could be, not saying it will, but this tornado, at its highest peak, hit a exceptionally well-constructed home, may just give us an EF5? We’ll have to find out for sure in the coming days.
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I can’t make heads or tails of the point you’re trying to make, but I will say as monstrous as it looked, I’ve seen nothing to indicate EF5 damage so far, contextually, structurally or otherwise.
 
Brice W said:
TH2002 made a mention about how western parts of Blaire and Bennington have been eerily quiet. Mentioned that the damage isn’t that bad, or it could be really bad that they can’t even get pics in right now. I say a little bit of both, no cell service to get any pictures taken and put them on social media. Also hinting that some of the damage isn’t really worthy of posting. Now the bad side of all this(even tho not any of this is good but this is the worst for what I’m about say.) That tornado had winds at 202 knots, that is 230 mph winds at or around 300. Well inside this EF5 range. That being said, this tornado definitely had EF5 winds, in my opinion and I know we’re on a drought of “the EF5.” We tend to say “oh well this tornado will do it” and then it doesn’t end up being an EF5. However I’m thinking there’s plenty of hot takes, of what could be, not saying it will, but this tornado, at its highest peak, hit a exceptionally well-constructed home, may just give us an EF5? We’ll have to find out for sure in the coming days.
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Not sure where exactly this is, but a Facebook follower sent this in the Lake Bennington area. FB_IMG_1714188036296.jpg
 
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