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Significant Tornado Events

Lake Martin EF4 said:
I'm pretty sure I know the one specific tornado you're probably thinking of and I agree, Newnan was in no way an EF4. On the plus side, its rating proves Ringgold would be EF5 if it happened nowadays.

Also, with regards to the list of good NWS offices, NWS Grand Forks just won a VIP seat lol
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Kinda ironic that with the NWS as a whole seemingly bending over backwards to avoid overrating a tornado for the last 12 years, we still got a pretty egregious case.
 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
I'm pretty sure I know the one specific tornado you're probably thinking of and I agree, Newnan was in no way an EF4. On the plus side, its rating proves Ringgold would be EF5 if it happened nowadays.

Also, with regards to the list of good NWS offices, NWS Grand Forks just won a VIP seat lol
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Bingo. Newnan was exactly the one I had in mind. It's honestly ridiculous that Newnan got an EF4 rating and others like Matador, Bowling Green and Camp Crook didn't.

Brice W said:
Honestly, I think it will be along with Chickasha, it’s just going to take sometime. That May 24 2011 outbreak was absolutely detrimental.
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In my opinion, while the EF5 drought officially started after Moore, 5/24/11 was the outbreak that laid the groundwork for it. Chickasha and Goldsby are right up there with Vilonia as some of the most obviously underrated tornadoes. One of the main reasons for the drought imo was that most surveyors were holding themselves to the same overly strict standards, whether they personally agreed with them or not, for fear of seeming sensationalistic or biased. 5/24/11 and 4/27/14 were definitely the events that set that standard.
 
SilentShadow87 said:
Also, does anyone have a higher resolution image of this house from the 6/12/13 Belmond, IA tornado? It's officially rated 155 mph EF3, but unless there was something very wrong with the house it looks like an EF4 candidate to me. The only issue with it mentioned in the survey is that it was "older".
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I was gonna say "I THINK the lack of ANY scouring may be why" but then I looked in the background lol.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
Yes, it's on page 13 of "The Huntsville Times" edition from April 5, 1974 which I think verifies it.
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As for your other request, here's what came back:
1. Page 15 of The Leader Post, July 2, 1935
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Weirdly enough this is the only mention I can find of the tornado.

Marginally related, but it's interesting seeing past preliminary death tolls for historical tornadoes in newspapers - a paper (can't remember the name) initially reported that "at least 500" were dead in the Regina Cyclone (death toll ended up being 28); another reported that over 1,000 were dead in the Tri-State F5 (death to ended up being 695 officially).
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Well if it's at Decatur wouldn't that actually be Guin?
 
Tornado of the Decade

I saw someone refer to Enderlin as the Tornado of the Decade. Fair, in that it helped break the ludicrous drought, but I can't help but wonder: what would be your actual Tornado of the Decade for various periods?

For me...

2020s (so far): Mayfield - sorry, but that's a no-brainer for me. Incredible power, longevity, and devastation.
2010s: uhh....to put it mildly, plenty of contenders. This might be impossible.
2000s: The strongest may well have been Parkersburg, Greensburg, Harper, Westminster, and Marion. When I think 2000s, I think Greensburg. It certainly got the most attention.
1990s: Jarrell, Bridge Creek, and Andover are the most famous
1980s: nothing competes with Niles-Wheatland (except maybe Moshannon!)
1970s: Certainly Xenia got the most attention, though it wasn't the strongest
1960s: lots of contenders! I think Topeka had the most ominous images!
1950s: Again, lots of contenders! I like Worcester
1940s: Glazier-Woodward
1930s: Tupelo
1920s: Buddy....this is a tornado forum...we all know which was the Tornado of the Decade for the 1920s
1910s: Fergus Falls?
1900s: IDK
 
Aaron Rider said:
Tornado of the Decade

I saw someone refer to Enderlin as the Tornado of the Decade. Fair, in that it helped break the ludicrous drought, but I can't help but wonder: what would be your actual Tornado of the Decade for various periods?

For me...

2020s (so far): Mayfield - sorry, but that's a no-brainer for me. Incredible power, longevity, and devastation.
2010s: uhh....to put it mildly, plenty of contenders. This might be impossible.
2000s: The strongest may well have been Parkersburg, Greensburg, Harper, Westminster, and Marion. When I think 2000s, I think Greensburg. It certainly got the most attention.
1990s: Jarrell, Bridge Creek, and Andover are the most famous
1980s: nothing competes with Niles-Wheatland (except maybe Moshannon!)
1970s: Certainly Xenia got the most attention, though it wasn't the strongest
1960s: lots of contenders! I think Topeka had the most ominous images!
1950s: Again, lots of contenders! I like Worcester
1940s: Glazier-Woodward
1930s: Tupelo
1920s: Buddy....this is a tornado forum...we all know which was the Tornado of the Decade for the 1920s
1910s: Fergus Falls?
1900s: IDK
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Wellfleet @Aaron Rider is what multiple chaser’s called it based on its epic looks and presentation.
 
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Actually, this image may be much more significant than I originally thought.

Does anyone have any information regarding this image? Check out Tornado Archive for tornadoes near Decatur that day:
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Obviously you have the Tanner F5s (the second of which I’ve already ruled out as I don’t think the tornado would be visible from that point given cloud and tree cover. The southern tornado, however, is why I’m so interested - that’s the Guin F5, a tornado widely believed to have no existing images or depictions of it.

Any information regarding this image would be great, because this could genuinely be an image of the Guin F5. The Decatur, Illinois F3 is also a possible tornado but I’d say it’s unlikely given the source of the image, which is a page dedicated entirely to tornado damage in the Huntsville metropolitan area published two days after the event.
 
Kds86z said:
Anyone know much on this tornado or thoughts?


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Never seen those bottom 2 pics from Red Rock before, I'd love to find photos of the oil rig and houses it swept away. It was undoubtedly an F5 and the most powerful tornado from that day. Wouldn't surprise me if it was on par with El Reno-Piedmont 2011 in terms of maximum damage potential, fortunately it stayed over open country most of its path and encountered few structures.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
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Actually, this image may be much more significant than I originally thought.

Does anyone have any information regarding this image? Check out Tornado Archive for tornadoes near Decatur that day:
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Obviously you have the Tanner F5s (the second of which I’ve already ruled out as I don’t think the tornado would be visible from that point given cloud and tree cover. The southern tornado, however, is why I’m so interested - that’s the Guin F5, a tornado widely believed to have no existing images or depictions of it.

Any information regarding this image would be great, because this could genuinely be an image of the Guin F5. The Decatur, Illinois F3 is also a possible tornado but I’d say it’s unlikely given the source of the image, which is a page dedicated entirely to tornado damage in the Huntsville metropolitan area published two days after the event.
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Well it's the FIRST tornado sighted near Decatur so it's probably the first Tanner the more I think about it.
 
Juliett Bravo Kilo said:
Never seen those bottom 2 pics from Red Rock before, I'd love to find photos of the oil rig and houses it swept away. It was undoubtedly an F5 and the most powerful tornado from that day. Wouldn't surprise me if it was on par with El Reno-Piedmont 2011 in terms of maximum damage potential, fortunately it stayed over open country most of its path and encountered few structures.
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Another similarity to El-Reno 2011 is it was a very long tracker in terms of Plains tornados.
 
Juliett Bravo Kilo said:
Well it's the FIRST tornado sighted near Decatur so it's probably the first Tanner the more I think about it.
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I’m really not 100% sure, because given there were numerous tornadoes in that region and general chaos I could easily see events being mixed up. When did Fujita release his map of the event?
 
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