MNTornadoGuy
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Pampa did loft heavy industrial machinery hundreds of feet into the air. Though it still probably doesn’t deserve being on the most intense tornadoes of all time list.I have some questions about Pampa Tx tornado 1995 as one of the most intense tornadoes in history. Despite the very impressive rational speed showed on videos, the damage to the factory was no more than high-end F3 level. The F4 rating involved the consideration of visual appearance. The visual appearance was shocking at that time because so little high-quality footages exist at that time. The vehicle damage was violent but not the tree damage. The overall damage level was not higher than Dalton tornado last year or Marion ND tornado 2004. So many violent rope type tornados had very impressive rotational speed showed on video since then but most of them don't have photogrammetric analysis didn't mean they were weaker.