Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025

[N0mz]

Question. Can anyone else not currently access the damage assessment toolkit?

noticing this too

 

[OH-IOan]

Question. Can anyone else not currently access the damage assessment toolkit?

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=ADASDM&e=202505180037

 

[Kds86z]

 

[tornado examiner]

Also I didn’t know you could follow people on here…huh?

 

[jiharris0220]

Here’s a closer look at the CMU house, honestly not too impressed, vehicle damage is not anything violent at all and the CMU hasn’t got a single block filled with concrete yet alone rebar.

 

[tornado examiner]

I’m gonna guess that it’ll be very hard for this one to get an ef4 rating.

 

[ColdFront]

Here’s a closer look at the CMU house, honestly not too impressed, vehicle damage is not anything violent at all and the CMU hasn’t got a single block filled with concrete yet alone rebar.
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Didn’t see what I believe to be a Camaro just sitting in the debris pile to the left until you posted this

 

[ColdFront]

I’m gonna guess that it’ll be very hard for this one to get an ef4 rating.

It would be a decent bet with an experienced WFO, but the location this occurred in (no well built homes) and NWS Jackson’s inexperience, it wouldn’t shock me to see it get high end EF3.

 

[OH-IOan]

I’m gonna guess that it’ll be very hard for this one to get an ef4 rating.

I still think the tree damage in London could do it.

 

[buckeye05]

Here’s a closer look at the CMU house, honestly not too impressed, vehicle damage is not anything violent at all and the CMU hasn’t got a single block filled with concrete yet alone rebar.
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Yes good eye. Lots of empty cells there, which means unreinforced CMU. While I am very confident this was a violent tornado, people should brace themselves for an EF3 rating.

Why is it so hard to find a single home with a proper poured slab and bolts foundation in Kentucky? It’s like Mayfield all over again.

 

[jiharris0220]

Didn’t see what I believe to be a Camaro just sitting in the debris pile to the left until you posted this

All of its windows are intact as well, and the tree damage at this location in particular isn’t really anything to write home about either. Also notice that the CMU foundation actually “fell” instead of break off.

And honestly, this might be in poor taste, but Kentucky construction never fails to make me awe in how dog excrement it is.

 

[tornado examiner]

I still think the tree damage in London could do it.

Not without structural ef4 damage.

 

[ColdFront]

All of its windows are intact as well, and the tree damage at this location in particular isn’t really anything to write home about either.

And honestly, this might be in poor taste, but Kentucky construction never fails to make me awe in how dog excrement it is.

I mean that’s not unique to Kentucky, that’s just the south. It’s all older homes. Especially in Kentucky, There isn’t an incentive or market for new development because of population increases so all homes are older and probably are from the 70s-90s. There’s a lot of poverty too, which makes mobile homes more prevalent. I don’t think it’s in poor taste, the construction is generally poor. Which is why I’ve been trying to tell a few posters in here bent on this being a high end candidate that it’s just not going to happen. You are not going to find above grade homes outside of the bigger cities in KY.

 

[AJS]

Yes good eye. Lots of empty cells there, which means unreinforced CMU. While I am very confident this was a violent tornado, people should brace themselves for an EF3 rating.

Why is it so hard to find a single home with a proper poured slab and bolts foundation in Kentucky? It’s like Mayfield all over again.

I remember when this was happening last night I said it was Eastern Kentucky’s Mayfield.

 

[N0mz]

I can't believe we're at the point of this thing being a debatable EF4. This thing absolutely flattened a row of houses. 100% catastrophic damage. Ted Fujita would be disappointed

 

[172556]

Here’s a closer look at the CMU house, honestly not too impressed, vehicle damage is not anything violent at all and the CMU hasn’t got a single block filled with concrete yet alone rebar.
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Local here. You're basically looking at rural Dixie Alley construction in nearly the entire path.

 

[N0mz]

On another note I do think Marion has a better shot at the forbidden rating, even if it feels completely impossible at this point

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

I can't believe we're at the point of this thing being a debatable EF4. This thing absolutely flattened a row of houses. 100% catastrophic damage. Ted Fujita would be disappointed

I liked Fujita much than the idiots we have today that take nothing into account but the construction of the house. It is getting to be flat out stupid if you ask me.

 

[OH-IOan]

If this gets an EF3 rating, this will likely be one of the deadliest EF3s since at least 2000, right?

 

[AJS]

This is so far visually the most impressive damage i’ve seen from the tornado so far.