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Significant Tornado Events

This is the same photo @Eoline posted a while back in the 4/27 thread.
Always good to know that they're taking images and passing them off as if they found or geolocated them (without credit, mind you). In reality, we put in all the work and he just came here and yanked it.
 
Always good to know that they're taking images and passing them off as if they found or geolocated them (without credit, mind you). In reality, we put in all the work and he just came here and yanked it.
In fairness, it isn't exactly your photo. I do agree with crediting like


"Eoline resurfaced this photo!" but credits to the original uploader must be his rule instead. Ask him if he could edit the post.
 
In fairness, it isn't exactly your photo. I do agree with crediting like
You are correct that it's not, and neither did I take it, but that entire post would be non-existent if it weren't for sklz, csx, and me.
 
You are correct that it's not, and neither did I take it, but that entire post would be non-existent if it weren't for sklz, csx, and me.
I agree and I put a comment regarding how credits goes a long way considering that this poet wouldn't have got its recognition if not for all of you. I understand that completely.
 

I was watching some of those old tornado documentaries like Tornado Videos on YouTube over the weekend. This video of the Chandler tornado reminds me a lot of the infamous Phil Campbell video where the tornado passes by at a very similar distance to this home video.

 
Does anyone have a photo of the well-built house completely destroyed by the Hopewell, Kansas EF3+ of May 4, 2007?
These are the only up close photos I’ve found of the “well-built” home referenced in the storm data publication on the tornado.
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Here’s some photos of the farmstead.
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Whats impressive about this location specifically is that the most intense winds of the tornado appeared to have missed the home to the east. A few shelter belts caught in the centerline of the vortex to the southeast were essentially stripped bare by almost certainly EF4+ winds, whereas at this location the vegetation damage appeared noticeably less intense.

This has been discussed before, but most interesting of all is a separate farmstead that was obliterated 5 miles south of the aforementioned area. In the damage survey file I downloaded from the event by NWS DDC the farm is labeled as having been rated as EF4, despite the tornado offically being an EF3.

What isn’t talked about though is that the same location pictured above and nearby farmsteads already destroyed on the night of May 4th were narrowly missed (as in less than a 1/2 mile or even grazed in some spots) by another strong, likely EF3+ tornado less than 24 hours later on May 5th. In fact, the Hopewell EF3 on May 4th and the long-tracked tornado on the 5th actually crossed paths a mile north of the farm pictured.
 
These are the only up close photos I’ve found of the “well-built” home referenced in the storm data publication on the tornado.
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Here’s some photos of the farmstead.
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Whats impressive about this location specifically is that the most intense winds of the tornado appeared to have missed the home to the east. A few shelter belts caught in the centerline of the vortex to the southeast were essentially stripped bare by almost certainly EF4+ winds, whereas at this location the vegetation damage appeared noticeably less intense.

This has been discussed before, but most interesting of all is a separate farmstead that was obliterated 5 miles south of the aforementioned area. In the damage survey file I downloaded from the event by NWS DDC the farm is labeled as having been rated as EF4, despite the tornado offically being an EF3.

What isn’t talked about though is that the same location pictured above and nearby farmsteads already destroyed on the night of May 4th were narrowly missed (as in less than a 1/2 mile or even grazed in some spots) by another strong, likely EF3+ tornado less than 24 hours later on May 5th. In fact, the Hopewell EF3 on May 4th and the long-tracked tornado on the 5th actually crossed paths a mile north of the farm pictured.
Are there any structural damage from the Macksville EF3?
 
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