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Significant Tornado Events - Global Edition

The 8th Anniversary of China's Deadly El Reno-wide Tornado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangsu_tornado#References

On the 23rd of June 2016, a massive 2.5-mile-wide tornado touched down in Jiangsu Province, China, devastating the city of Funing. It was the worst tornado ever to touch Chinese soil, and the deadliest tornadic event since the Joplin tornado, with 98 fatalities. Very little footage of the tornado itself exists, but there are concise videos about it.




This EF4 is China's closest incident to Joplin.
 
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This is the 3rd Anniversary of the 2021 South Moravia Tornado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_South_Moravia_tornado

On the 24th of June 2021, the strongest tornado in the Czech Republic and the deadliest tornado in Europe since 2002 ripped through several towns including Hrušky, Moravská Nová Ves, Mikulčice, Lužice, and Hodonín at High-end IF3-IF4 intensity. The tornado caused nearly 600 million Euros in damage, 200 injuries, and 6 fatalities. 3 years later, the Czech Republic is still scarred for life.

 
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On the 24 of June 1967, a devastating tornado outbreak in Western Europe resulted in 15-20 fatalities and at least 80 injuries. The deadliest was an F5 in Palluel, France that killed six people and injured 30, while an F4 killed two and injured 50 in Pommereuil. 57 years later, this outbreak resulted in the strongest tornado in France since 1845, and the last F5 tornado ever recorded in Europe.



There are known photos of the Palluel F5, but I could not find them myself. However, a YouTuber named Swegle Studios actually found the images, which can be seen in a video where he talks about Europe's Tornado Alleys. The photo of the Palluel F5 can be seen at approximately 12:44.

 
SpotlightForRareTornadoes said:
On the 24 of June 1967, a devastating tornado outbreak in Western Europe resulted in 15-20 fatalities and at least 80 injuries. The deadliest was an F5 in Palluel, France that killed six people and injured 30, while an F4 killed two and injured 50 in Pommereuil. 57 years later, this outbreak resulted in the strongest tornado in France since 1845, and the last F5 tornado ever recorded in Europe.



There are known photos of the Palluel F5, but I could not find them myself. However, a YouTuber named Swegle Studios actually found the images, which can be seen in a video where he talks about Europe's Tornado Alleys. The photo of the Palluel F5 can be seen at approximately 12:44.

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The photo that Swegle uses at 12:44 is from Deil, Netherlands F3
 
SpotlightForRareTornadoes said:
On the 24 of June 1967, a devastating tornado outbreak in Western Europe resulted in 15-20 fatalities and at least 80 injuries. The deadliest was an F5 in Palluel, France that killed six people and injured 30, while an F4 killed two and injured 50 in Pommereuil. 57 years later, this outbreak resulted in the strongest tornado in France since 1845, and the last F5 tornado ever recorded in Europe.



There are known photos of the Palluel F5, but I could not find them myself. However, a YouTuber named Swegle Studios actually found the images, which can be seen in a video where he talks about Europe's Tornado Alleys. The photo of the Palluel F5 can be seen at approximately 12:44.

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It's worth mentioned that Palluel tornado was reanalysised as IF5 rating recently. They mentioned that though there was some uncertainty, but they choose to go upper bend with the highest rating.
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Also 7/24/1930 tornado in Italy was also reanalysised as IF5 rating tornado.
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The famous church damage was rated IF4 but the adjacent building below was rates IF5
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Those things further proved that the IF5 rating is certainly achievable in Europe, compared with the pretty much unachievable EF5 rating in US now.
 
SpotlightForRareTornadoes said:
On the 24 of June 1967, a devastating tornado outbreak in Western Europe resulted in 15-20 fatalities and at least 80 injuries. The deadliest was an F5 in Palluel, France that killed six people and injured 30, while an F4 killed two and injured 50 in Pommereuil. 57 years later, this outbreak resulted in the strongest tornado in France since 1845, and the last F5 tornado ever recorded in Europe.



There are known photos of the Palluel F5, but I could not find them myself. However, a YouTuber named Swegle Studios actually found the images, which can be seen in a video where he talks about Europe's Tornado Alleys. The photo of the Palluel F5 can be seen at approximately 12:44.

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The more of Swegle's videos I see, the more I can tell that factual accuracy isn't one of his top priorities.

For example, he mislabeled that photo of the Deil tornado as Ivan already pointed out (that, or he used it as a 'placeholder' without any kind of "photo from the Netherlands" disclaimer). In his video where he talks about tornadoes in unusual locations, he looks at one report on the Tornado Archive (the 1976 Kiana, AK tornado) and quickly concludes it's the northernmost tornado ever recorded, when (not trying to gloat here) a couple hours of research on my end uncovered several tornadoes that beat it.

Not to mention his "research" consists of mislabeling photos, perpetuating false rumors, and often relying on the Tornado Archive as his sole source of information, failing to cross check it with other sources (the ESWD, TORRO, etc.)

I'll concede he is good at video production though. I feel like he should be doing video editing for someone else, and leave the research part to someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
 
Here's my post about the June 3, 2009 Krasnozavodsk, Russia F3. Honestly, in the past I hadn't considered it to be a legitimate F3, but after doing some digging I believe its rating was warranted.

One of the things that sticks out to me the most about this event is just how selective it was - I know, I know, multiple vortex tornadoes are gonna be that way. But even taking that into consideration, some areas of its damage genuinely confuse me - it's up there with Birmingham '77 and Greensburg 2007 as to just how selective the damage was.
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These photos show the remains of a small strip-mall type structure. In this shopping complex, one building was completely obliterated and flattened, but as the tornado traveled northward it passed over the building that once paralleled it (and left it standing).

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Immediately after impacting the shopping complex, the tornado encountered apartment buildings surrounded by groves of trees. The roof of one of the apartment buildings was completely peeled back and some damage to balconies occurred, but none of the buildings lost any walls. European roof construction is also not noted for being fantastic and even F1 winds can usually expose the roof timbers.

The trees on the other hand were just completely mowed down, with the few remaining standing trees being significantly debarked. I'm sure these were softwoods, but the tree damage alone is quite consistent with tornadoes given at least a low-end EF3 rating. It's just so bizarre how the groves were obliterated in such an impressive fashion with probably low-end F2 structural damage right next to it. Maybe the core of the most extreme winds passed between the buildings?

To conclude, this video of the tornado is one of the craziest tornado videos I've seen from Russia, if not in general:
 
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The more of Swegle's videos I see, the more I can tell that factual accuracy isn't one of his top priorities.

For example, he mislabeled that photo of the Deil tornado as Ivan already pointed out (that, or he used it as a 'placeholder' without any kind of "photo from the Netherlands" disclaimer). In his video where he talks about tornadoes in unusual locations, he looks at one report on the Tornado Archive (the 1976 Kiana, AK tornado) and quickly concludes it's the northernmost tornado ever recorded, when (not trying to gloat here) a couple hours of research on my end uncovered several tornadoes that beat it.

Not to mention his "research" consists of mislabeling photos, perpetuating false rumors, and often relying on the Tornado Archive as his sole source of information, failing to cross check it with other sources (the ESWD, TORRO, etc.)

I'll concede he is good at video production though. I feel like he should be doing video editing for someone else, and leave the research part to someone who actually knows what they're talking
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Two of the photos that he used in the European Tornado Alley Thumbnail WERE labeled correctly. The first one is a real photo from the San Giorgio di Piano tornado back in 2013, and the last one is a photo of the 2016 Suffolk waterspout in the UK.
 
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SpotlightForRareTornadoes said:
Two of the photos that he used in the European Tornado Alley Thumbnail WERE labeled correctly. The first one is a real photo from the San Giorgio di Piano tornado back in 2013, and the last one is a photo of the 2016 Suffolk waterspout in the UK.
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Doesn't matter if he only gets it right some of the time.

A minor error with an issued correction every now and then would be no big deal, because don't get me wrong, we all make mistakes. But if one is going to run a channel like his, then either (at least try to) be right all of the time, or go be a contributor at the hypothetical tornadoes wiki.
 
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Doesn't matter if he only gets it right some of the time.

A minor error with an issued correction every now and then would be no big deal, because don't get me wrong, we all make mistakes. But if one is going to run a channel like his, then either (at least try to) be right all of the time, or go be a contributor at the hypothetical tornadoes wiki.
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He only has 240K subscribers, so it isn't a huge channel, but his content is still amazing! Yes, he has inaccurate photos, but mainly those are for placeholders for when there aren't any real known photos of actual tornadoes. I don't know honestly...who knows, maybe he has a lot of people that already know where the photos were really from. Sometimes, you just gotta do with what you have. Also, Like many other tornado Youtubers, Swegle has been fooled by the fake San Justo tornado photos. But he is not the only one, Carly Anna WX is another Weather YouTuber who used the pseudo photo in her South American tornado video. And let's not forget the pseudo F4 of 1961 near Glendive, MT on Tornado Archive (which you can still see) that caused Swegle to rank Montana higher on a tier list he created when he made a video on ranking all 50 states for tornado activity. He still has a lot to learn
 
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He still has a lot to learn
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Yep. But don't expect much. We exchanged some emails and to me he is more interested in building viewer count than anything else. You can read the comments on his vids and get a good idea of who his viewers are, most of whom seem to regard him as an awesome expert demi-god. That's what steers him and he knows they're not as impressed by accuracy as they are by style. He feeds them happiness and they partake. Same with Carly Anna but she does strive for accuracy and she has the deep interest most of us here do, plus she's a meteorologist. She truly tries to educate her followers, he doesn't.

I learned long ago that the results you get from somebody directly correlates to what is motivating them. Those who seek popularity and will change themselves to gain that never amount to much (unless they're politicians or preachers) because of having the wrong motivations. Nothing wrong with trying to be acceptable in society but to be exceptional at something you have to rise above the common level of thinking. One of my favorite quotes is that "A genius is basically a non-conformist" and indeed it's true. So which should you strive for? Would you rather be right and well-versed or popular, because the two don't often coincide. I ain't no genius but I'm not going to conform to any standards I can rise above. Both these folks have good potential but aren't going to really shine till they become secure in themselves and go their own way regardless of what others think. Their conformity brings them happiness so let them have that- just don't expect better from them. And with that I'll end my philosophy lesson for the day as I sing the Monty Python philosopher's song to nobody but me :p
 
was on an amazing trip to europe for the first half of june so I missed the soviet tornado outbreak anniversary, here is my tweet about it, I also posted some new stuff from my Ivanovo project

 
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