So. I'm gonna have to be 'that guy' and highly disagree with the Hamilton tornado rating. To get a 130mph EF2 from the house with only a single small interior room standing, poorly built or not, requires turning the EF scale DI slider to literally the very bottom end, which WFOs are seemingly defaulting to now. BMX rated a home with similar degree of exterior walls standing (albeit with much stronger contextual evidence and brick construction) EF4 at Beauregard.
NWS Jackson has really ramped up the conservatism with their surveys in recent years. The Columbus tornado from earlier this year was rated “137 MPH EF3”. What is the deal with that? Damage was solid EF3, but the wind speed estimate seems to suggest that they were very hesitant to rate it as such.
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