Significant Tornado Events

[TH2002]

Do any photos exist of the April 15, 2011 Knoxville-Fosters-Tuscaloosa EF3? When looking, all I see are photos of the 4/27 EF4 and an EF2 in Wilcox County, Alabama

There does exist footage of the tornado itself:




Aerial of EF3 rated damage, particularly the truss tower by the river:

edit: fixed one of the YT links

 

[NewFoundWeatherNerd]

Do any photos exist of the April 15, 2011 Knoxville-Fosters-Tuscaloosa EF3? When looking, all I see are photos of the 4/27 EF4 and an EF2 in Wilcox County, Alabama

I actually looked for photos of this specific tornado at one point; and to my memory, didnt find much at all

 

[CheeselandSkies]

I actually looked for photos of this specific tornado at one point; and to my memory, didnt find much at all

It was a more typical Dixie ground-scraping base, rainy "fognado" compared to the tornadoes of 4/27. The topmost video posted by @TH2002 is the clearest imagery I've ever seen of it.

 

[Union]

Holy crap, this also happened with Chapman 2016!


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I'm fully convinced Mayfield should've been rated EF5 based off this and the Bremen damage.

Well I did in fact find another few images of the vehicle, I actually already had it, just never clicked in my brain that they were the same vehicle, I was able to identify it as some sort of mobile recruiting van for the candle factory I assume, there's some writing on the doors that say so, this is what it looked like after it was pulled off the farming equipment, it was just a normal utility van before if you could imagine that comparatively






Here is a 5th image of it still attached to the equipment, I unfortunately lost the video I got this from but it was some Facebook post, rip

 

[Union]

100% agreed. Based on the damage seen in Bremen, Mayfield was a classic example of what true EF5 contextual damage looks like, but not being rated such due to the construction present in the area.

For another mention for a very underrated area of the Mayfield path, just east of Princeton where it scathed the UofK Agricultural Facility, contextuals on par with SW Mayfield, maybe not Bremen but closing in on it for sure, I've sent photos in here before under some of the keywords, gnarly vehicle and tree stuff, the area itself was even rated EF3-165 at its max DI, insane understatement

 

[AJS]

For another mention for a very underrated area of the Mayfield path, just east of Princeton where it scathed the UofK Agricultural Facility, contextuals on par with SW Mayfield, maybe not Bremen but closing in on it for sure, I've sent photos in here before under some of the keywords, gnarly vehicle and tree stuff, the area itself was even rated EF3-165 at its max DI, insane understatement

I think SW Mayfield, the U/K area in Princeton, and Bremen are where the tornado most likely reached EF5 strength.

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

The only confirmed image I was able to find of the April 27, 2011 Sawyerville, AL EF3 that killed seven people (I'm currently writing a Wikipedia article for the tornado, which is how I found it). I would call this one of the most "forgotten" destructive tornadoes from the outbreak, up there with the Cordova and Fackler EF4s.

 

[csx1985]

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The only confirmed image I was able to find of the April 27, 2011 Sawyerville, AL EF3 that killed seven people (I'm currently writing a Wikipedia article for the tornado, which is how I found it). I would call this one of the most "forgotten" destructive tornadoes from the outbreak, up there with the Cordova and Fackler EF4s.

I believe this was the predecessor to the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4.

 

[ColdFront]

I believe this was the predecessor to the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4.

They were on the ground around the same time. This storm was southwest of the ongoing TSCL-BHAM tornado. It actually didn’t get much attention live because of that specific reason.

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The only confirmed image I was able to find of the April 27, 2011 Sawyerville, AL EF3 that killed seven people (I'm currently writing a Wikipedia article for the tornado, which is how I found it). I would call this one of the most "forgotten" destructive tornadoes from the outbreak, up there with the Cordova and Fackler EF4s.

There’s a video of that storm somewhere on one of Reed’s compilations from that day. That Video and this picture are the only two visuals I have seen of it. He got a shot of it as it made an appearance between a clearing of trees. I’ll see if I can find it.

Edit: found it. Starts at 3:10

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

They were on the ground around the same time. This storm was southwest of the ongoing TSCL-BHAM tornado. It actually didn’t get much attention live because of that specific reason.


There’s a video of that storm somewhere on one of Reed’s compilations from that day. That Video and this picture are the only two visuals I have seen of it. He got a shot of it as it made an appearance between a clearing of trees. I’ll see if I can find it.

Edit: found it. Starts at 3:10

It just says "Video unavailable - This video is not available".

 

[ColdFront]

It just says "Video unavailable - This video is not available".

Weird. If you remove the m off of the link for mobile, does it play for you?

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Still gives me this. I am on someone else's computer right now, but that shouldn't change anything (with both the "M" in the ID removed and without it removed; and with the mobile designator removed).

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Still gives me this. I am on someone else's computer right now, but that shouldn't change anything (with both the "M" in the ID removed and without it removed; and with the mobile designator removed).
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Try using a VPN, see what happens:

 

[ColdFront]

Try using a VPN, see what happens:

Did it play for you? It played fine for me on multiple platforms and I live in the states so not sure If it’s the link I shared or what

 

[Kds86z]

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The only confirmed image I was able to find of the April 27, 2011 Sawyerville, AL EF3 that killed seven people (I'm currently writing a Wikipedia article for the tornado, which is how I found it). I would call this one of the most "forgotten" destructive tornadoes from the outbreak, up there with the Cordova and Fackler EF4s.

Thanks for your work @Central Ohio Wx

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Still gives me this. I am on someone else's computer right now, but that shouldn't change anything (with both the "M" in the ID removed and without it removed; and with the mobile designator removed).
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Your address bar is showing the wrong URL for the video in question. The video ID (after the v=) link should be vhKjv9GuARQ

 

[Union]

Richmond, KY F4
4/3/74

Photos taken from the EKU photos archive, honestly not much (comparatively to some other 4/3 tornadoes) out there on this one outside of some Facebook posts and images of the tornado itself, at least from what I could find, definitely violent however

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Your address bar is showing the wrong URL for the video in question. The video ID (after the v=) link should be vhKjv9GuARQ

Ah, I got it! I honestly like the first one better, while I'm a big fan of high-quality tornado video the first picture has something uniquely "4/27"-y about it, probably just the low-quality iPhone video.

 

[NewFoundWeatherNerd]

The 7/5/2000 Dailey CO F3 is supremely underrated; with this being a very rare nocturnal CO tornado, and a strong one at that.
No photos of it exist to my knowledge, with the "photo" of it being truly from a storm on 7/8/2000; not from Dailey.
This tornado destroyed a farmstead owned by the Gordon family, who all survived with minor injuries; with one family member surviving by having a couch fall on top of them, sheltering them from flying debris.
Here's a few photos from a Colorado history Blog I have archived: (there's more but they're in a file type not accepted by the forum)
Plus, one by a Summer 2001 Colorado Climate magazine:
This tornado was a very rare Colorado wedge too, at 1,320 Yards wide

 

[ColdFront]

Richmond, KY F4
4/3/74

Photos taken from the EKU photos archive, honestly not much (comparatively to some other 4/3 tornadoes) out there on this one outside of some Facebook posts and images of the tornado itself, at least from what I could find, definitely violent however View attachment 45664View attachment 45665View attachment 45666View attachment 45667View attachment 45668View attachment 45669View attachment 45670

Being from this area, it thankfully skirted and missed downtown Richmond and hugged to the western parts of Madison County, which were at the time pretty rural. It’s a pretty decently sized college town, so damage potential would’ve been very high had it tracked through it. A student got some wicked photos of it from the top of a dormitory as it moved away from the city.

The parent storm actually originated a little northwest of Nashville and dropped the Mannsville F4 as well.