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Significant Tornado Events
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Extreme damage from Chandler 1992.
This vehicle was apparently thrown half a mile from where it originated:
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This vehicle was apparently thrown half a mile from where it originated:
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WeathermanLeprechaun
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SouthFLwx
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EF-5
Eoline
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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.
WeathermanLeprechaun
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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.
Eoline
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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.
WeathermanLeprechaun
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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.
Kds86z
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Kds86z
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Oh no
csx1985
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It’s not necessary to repost previous discussed pictures or content on here unless you have a question or any context to add. You can conveniently utilize the “search” feature to help prevent yourself from posting identical information in the future.
Chandler, the Hesston-Goessel family, and Oakfield are pretty overlooked F5s despite all being pretty high-end.
DanLarsen34
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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.
Tornado_Man_40
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Does anyone have a photo of the well-built house completely destroyed by the Hopewell, Kansas EF3+ of May 4, 2007?
Western_KS_Wx
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These are the only up close photos I’ve found of the “well-built” home referenced in the storm data publication on the tornado.
Here’s some photos of the farmstead.
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.
Ivanthetornadoenthusiast
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Are there any structural damage from the Macksville EF3?
WeathermanLeprechaun
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Serious second this. The reason I responded in question to the post like that was because the photo was already discussed plenty in the 4/27 thread. Reposting it doesn't exactly do much except "hey, remember this?"
tornadowatch211
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https://tornadodatabase.vercel.app/index.html
This website is pretty cool. It is a, tornado database. Crazy, right? It also has some rare images and accounts. There is a tornado strength estimators via cyclodial marks, transported objects, and broad contextuals. You can also make a strongest tornadoes list and other stuff.
This website is pretty cool. It is a, tornado database. Crazy, right? It also has some rare images and accounts. There is a tornado strength estimators via cyclodial marks, transported objects, and broad contextuals. You can also make a strongest tornadoes list and other stuff.
Western_KS_Wx
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There’s actually very few pieces of media of the damage from this one, but from what I’ve been able to confidently attribute to the Macksville EF3 this is the most significant structural damage photographed.
There’s a handful of other damage photos I have that show vegetation and structural damage in the EF3 range, but I’m unable to say definitively which tornado they were caused by.
The survey of the Macksville EF3 is intriguing to me. I could be wrong, but from what it appears is that the majority of the path went unsurveyed, and if it was it happened later on. The DDC damage points file only has 1 DI from that tornado, and it’s EF2 damage to a farmstead almost right after it touched down.
On top of that, the tornado was actually initially rated EF2 before being upgraded to EF3 a good while after the event. I’m not sure what specifically pushed them to upgrade it, but I’d imagine tree damage was likely a factor.
The official path of the tornado is also way off to the west of where it actually tracked, and much narrower than it appeared to be. From what I’ve gathered, it’s very likely the tornado was anywhere from 1.5 - 2 miles wide as it crossed Highway 50.