Significant Tornado Events

[A Guy]

After reading a couple of posts on the least successfully re-branded popular social media site, I'd like an opinion: is this a continuous track, or two tornadoes?

 

[slenker]

After reading a couple of posts on the least successfully re-branded popular social media site, I'd like an opinion: is this a continuous track, or two tornadoes?

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Looks to me like two tornadoes. The end of the top path looks to be displaced from the beginning of the bottom path to me. Also, the path widths are very different. By itself that isn’t really a good indicator of whether it was actually one path or not, but combined with the former interpretation I think it’s reasonable.

 

[HAwkmoon]

I think there might be one or two in my unsorted photos I need to go through eventually, but here's what I've got of Peabody #18:

This obviously isn't the mine itself, but it's a home that was demolished just to the northeast:

Oh thought I might share some of the ones I collected of Peabody Mine 18 and put in the article along with about 1,500 other photos haha. These come from JCHS and Frankfort Area Genealogical Soceity + Silkwood Inn Museum and Illinois State Archives. Part 1. I will say the damage to this mine is nothing short of extreme, steel reinforced fireproof brick and concrete buildings razed, the multi-hundred ton tipple tower torn down and pulled from the ground by its concrete anchoring piers, and general carnage. Five at the mine site were killed and even the air currents in the mine shaft were reversed by the suction and blew off the reinforced steel door to the office at the bottom of the 518 foot deep mine. ( had to downscale these, full size ones are on the article).




This photo has a lot of cleanup.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Part 2 of the mine 18.

Close up pic showing the reinforcement.


Very thick walls.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Part 3.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Final post lol, apologies for hijacking the thread.



Water tower.

 

[Aaron Rider]

Oh thought I might share some of the ones I collected of Peabody Mine 18 and put in the article along with about 1,500 other photos haha. These come from JCHS and Frankfort Area Genealogical Soceity + Silkwood Inn Museum and Illinois State Archives. Part 1. I will say the damage to this mine is nothing short of extreme, steel reinforced fireproof brick and concrete buildings razed, the multi-hundred ton tipple tower torn down and pulled from the ground by its concrete anchoring piers, and general carnage. Five at the mine site were killed and even the air currents in the mine shaft were reversed by the suction and blew off the reinforced steel door to the office at the bottom of the 518 foot deep mine. ( had to downscale these, full size ones are on the article).

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This photo has a lot of cleanup.



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Notable how many Tri State photos included people posing. They were very aware of the incredible display of nature

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

After reading a couple of posts on the least successfully re-branded popular social media site, I'd like an opinion: is this a continuous track, or two tornadoes?

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Which tornado is this?

To me it certainly LOOKS like 2 separate tracks, though.

 

[A Guy]

Which tornado is this?

Smithville, at about 17 miles by Tornado Talk's path, the grey line on the right is the Mississippi state boundary.

 

[Western_KS_Wx]

Which tornado is this?

To me it certainly LOOKS like 2 separate tracks, though.

TornadoTalk has Smithville as a continuous track, so I’m assuming there was enough evidence to come to that conclusion. I agree with it being continuous, looks like a very rapid and potent failed occlusion resulting in a much narrower and weaker vortex being what happened here. That’s fascinating how fast the vortex broke-down though, pretty much like the failed occlusion Moore ‘13 underwent just a more dramatic example.

 

[A Guy]

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