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Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025

And yeah okay there’s the first home where they are just being too generous with the rating. And a misapplication of the DOD.
An all walls collapsed 168mph EF4 di for a brick home with most of its exterior walls intact having just been pelted by debris.
It also has a lot of its roof framing still attached.
Very over-rated that one.
 
tornado examiner said:
And yeah okay there’s the first home where they are just being too generous with the rating. And a misapplication of the DOD.
An all walls collapsed 168mph EF4 di for a brick home with most of its exterior walls intact having just been pelted by debris.
It also has a lot of its roof framing still attached.
Very over-rated that one.
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Well that's a good thing as many tornadoes get cheated out of the rating they deserve.
 
tornado examiner said:
And yeah okay there’s the first home where they are just being too generous with the rating. And a misapplication of the DOD.
An all walls collapsed 168mph EF4 di for a brick home with most of its exterior walls intact having just been pelted by debris.
It also has a lot of its roof framing still attached.
Very over-rated that one.
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However, I wish that NWS offices stayed consistent with each other.
 
After that catch happened my May 18th stuff took precedence, but I went back and edited some footage from my May 15th local chase.



Copy/paste of my YouTube description:

I left the house in Madison planning to intercept storms as they matured north and east of the city, as that seemed to be the general consensus from the convection-allowing models as to how the day would play out. I targeted a storm that looked like it was getting its act together near Arlington/Poynette, with a subtle (severe thunderstorm, but not tornado-warned) velocity couplet on radar. I pushed east on County Rd. CS/Q out of Poynette, then north on WIS-22 and east again on County Rd. B as this area of interest came up from the south toward the road in front of me, and found a rather ominous-looking wall cloud. I followed this to the northeast as best I could, getting my last view of it along WIS-16 between Rio and Doylestown. At this point it looked like my storm was about to be absorbed into the forward flank of a much larger one coming up rapidly from the south-southwest.

I pushed east and attempted to shelter at a gas station in Fall River as I began to be pelted with hail, but all the space under the pump canopy was already occupied by other drivers who had the same idea. It was at this time the tornado warning went out for the new storm, then located just east of Columbus, and I raced after it. I made it through Columbus and onto US-151 east, but exited just before Beaver Dam. It was at this time the rotation abruptly ramped up and produced the tornadoes over Juneau, about 7 miles to my east. With a wall of rain and hail between me and the action area, and no good way to catch up without plowing through it, I called off the chase near the town of Leipsig, getting smacked by more hail on the very back edge of the storm.
 
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