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Significant Tornado Events

eep said:
Tbf that's true for a lot of old tornadoes, New Richmond, Sherman, Rochester, and Pomeroy are kinda anomalies in that regard.
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Well with New Richmond and some of the others we have the contextual evidence to back it up - Camden, as far as I am aware, we do not. It's kind of like "singular building with no concrete photos heavily damaged with no other evidence of strength".

Anyways, that's an EF thread debate and one I am not in the state of mind to get into. I don't have the sketch on hand but it'd be nice if someone could post it.
 
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Eoline said:
Well with New Richmond and some of the others we have the contextual evidence to back it up - Camden, as far as I am aware, we do not. It's kind of like "singular building with no concrete photos heavily damaged with no other evidence of strength".

Anyways, that's an EF thread debate and one I am not in the state of mind to get into. I don't have the sketch on hand but it'd be nice if someone could post it.
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I agree, I'm moreso saying that for every tornado that has good proof of F5 damage from that era, there are a bunch others where we have to rely on a few accounts of purported damage. We're very lucky that a majority of tornado damage nowadays ends up documented.
 
Eoline said:
This is a screen cap from an unreleased Skycam25 video that was located around this time last year; it was published in one or two local printed newspapers and I've never seen it posted online.
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Very interesting. It was buried in there all along. Barely see the right edge of it honestly.
 
Unfortunately with PHP2Shell running loose on unpatched servers (look it up; it's very interesting and admittedly quite terrifying stuff) I am afraid that many niche websites with rare damage/funnel images are about to be, or have been, compromised and lost. Think of srh.noaa.gov but way more widespread.
 
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Eoline said:
Came across a fun little story published in 1929 that described crew on the J.P. Morgan's private yacht attempting to shoot a tornado with a cannon shot four years earlier. Unsurprisingly it was unsuccessful at stopping it but the entire incident is still hilarious to visualize.
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"It wounded it, breaking its force" - CEO of cope, seethe and mald, 1929
 
Eoline said:
Came across a fun little story published in 1929 that described crew on the J.P. Morgan's private yacht attempting to shoot a tornado with a cannon shot four years earlier. Unsurprisingly it was unsuccessful at stopping it but the entire incident is still hilarious to visualize.
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Turns out this story gets even funnier; it began to dissipate (by complete coincidence) right as they shot it, leading to them legitimately thinking it had worked.
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This is easily the dumbest story I've ever seen recorded in a newspaper from this time period and I have seen some very weird stuff (including the guy who was shot by his own rifle during Aberdeen 1920).
 
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