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Severe WX Severe Weather Threat 3/14-3/16

The thing that gets me about the Diaz tornado is that it didn't seem like a huge tornado when it was going on.

Tornadoes of Diaz's magnitude (Mayfield, Rolling Fork, Greenfield, etc.) had all eyes on that specific storm. It was obvious something large and violent was on the ground. Diaz kind of seemed to slip through the cracks until damage pics came out and revealed it was a downright violent tornado.

Maybe it's just me though.
 
slenker said:
Ground/grass looks pretty messed up too - can't tell where the border of the high end damage swath begins from those images though, would love to see an aerial of it. I certainly believe this tornado reached EF5 intensity now, the question is if it will actually receive it.
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From something @tornado examiner posted earlier it’s currently not being reviewed.

However, the rating isn’t finalized. Sometimes offices, if they care about these things, will do forensic analysis or other reanalysis of the DIs/Structures. Similar to how HUN didn’t upgrade Rainsville until 2 months after 4/27/11. Or the 4/26 EF4 from last year.
 
ColdFront said:
From something @tornado examiner posted earlier it’s currently not being reviewed.

However, the rating isn’t finalized. Sometimes offices, if they care about these things, will do forensic analysis or other reanalysis of the DIs/Structures. Similar to how HUN didn’t upgrade Rainsville until 2 months after 4/27/11. Or the 4/26 EF4 from last year.
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Very true
 
MMWX (FKA TornadoFan17) said:
The thing that gets me about the Diaz tornado is that it didn't seem like a huge tornado when it was going on.

Tornadoes of Diaz's magnitude (Mayfield, Rolling Fork, Greenfield, etc.) had all eyes on that specific storm. It was obvious something large and violent was on the ground. Diaz kind of seemed to slip through the cracks until damage pics came out and revealed it was a downright violent tornado.

Maybe it's just me though.
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Part of the reason is probably due to its narrow size.
 
MMWX (FKA TornadoFan17) said:
The thing that gets me about the Diaz tornado is that it didn't seem like a huge tornado when it was going on.

Tornadoes of Diaz's magnitude (Mayfield, Rolling Fork, Greenfield, etc.) had all eyes on that specific storm, Diez kind of seemed to slip through the cracks until damage pics came out and revealed it was a downright violent tornado.

Maybe it's just me though.
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It was mainly because its velocity couplet wasn’t anything impressive. Extreme velocity couplets are what earn tornadoes the vast majority of attention they get other than video documentation.

Matador was also a tornado that sort of slipped under the rug until the damage from it was revealed due to an unassuming velocity couplet.

Yet matador imo produced the worst contextual ef5 damage directly comparable to the 1999 bridge creek tornado or even jarrel.

The matador tornado completely debarked and even vanished mesquite trees, vanished two vehicles and utterly dismantled many more into unrecognizable shards of metal, while completely scouring sections of the ground clean.
 
ColdFront said:
From something @tornado examiner posted earlier it’s currently not being reviewed.

However, the rating isn’t finalized. Sometimes offices, if they care about these things, will do forensic analysis or other reanalysis of the DIs/Structures. Similar to how HUN didn’t upgrade Rainsville until 2 months after 4/27/11. Or the 4/26 EF4 from last year.
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For some reason, I do strongly believe they will revisit it then. A tornado getting slapped with a preliminary 190 EF4, then not being looked into further would be a very strange thing indeed. I think it's very likely that they've got a lot of other tornadoes to look into on their hands right now so they want to hold off on it briefly.
 
slenker said:
For some reason, I do strongly believe they will revisit it then. A tornado getting slapped with a preliminary 190 EF4, then not being looked into further would be a very strange thing indeed. I think it's very likely that they've got a lot of other tornadoes to look into on their hands right now so they want to hold off on it briefly.
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I agree. That Caleb Routt guy that used to post on here claimed that an EF5 rating has to be approved higher up and can’t be done at the WFO, which he said he discovered when investigating the mayfield storm. I don’t really buy that since he seemed to have some kind of agenda on that tornado.
 
ColdFront said:
I agree. That Caleb Routt guy that used to post on here claimed that an EF5 rating has to be approved higher up and can’t be done at the WFO, which he said he discovered when investigating the mayfield storm. I don’t really buy that since he seemed to have some kind of agenda on that tornado.
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Didn't that guy go on a months-long war on the talk page of the EF5 tornadoes list on Wikipedia?
 
Maxis_s said:
Didn't that guy go on a months-long war on the talk page of the EF5 tornadoes list on Wikipedia?
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He had a very detailed blog on the Mayfield
Tornado. I hand it to him, it was descriptive and he synthesized a lot of disparate information on it into one space. As I alluded to, he did seem to have an agenda. I’d love for you to DM me the link to this months long war on Wikipedia lol
 
ColdFront said:
He had a very detailed blog on the Mayfield
Tornado. I hand it to him, it was descriptive and he synthesized a lot of disparate information on it into one space. As I alluded to, he did seem to have an agenda. I’d love for you to DM me the link to this months long war on Wikipedia lol
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Talk:List of F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes/Discussion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
Lasted for almost a year. I think I read through the whole thing out of boredom before.
 
jiharris0220 said:
I have absolutely no problems with the rating Diaz was assigned.

But it definitely took a little more than 190mph winds to shatter and lift up the foundation like that to say the least.
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Has that home been a surveyed? Or is that the 190 MPH home.
tornado examiner said:
Ugh…Bakersfield is seemingly being finalized as a 140mph EF3.
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MEG surveying?
 
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