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Significant Tornado Events

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MNTornadoGuy said:
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10:13 shows very intense damage to mature trees as well. Has this tornado been upgraded to EF4 yet? It certainly merits EF4 status.
 
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eric11 said:
These two pics were taken near where the probe was placed, you can also notice the mangled white car mentioned by pohnpei.
There is a two-story white house near this location which was completely obliterated.
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The moment the tornado hit the house and the probe, a violent drillbit-like tornado
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Following pics were photographed between 2011 and 2013 in the center of the once-stood small town Manchester. Though it's already been ten years, these completely debarked and twisted hardwood trees were still visble
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A wide angle view of the whole meso
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The color and shape of the funnel in the first pic reminds me of Tracy and Union City, it terms of its appearance and the photograph being taken shortly after it passed over the area of the photographer.
 
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pohnpei said:
There were some pics showed subfloor ripped of the foundation in Washington like this one below.(upper right corner)

I agree that there was a possibility that Washington was one of the strongest tornados but still, lack of high end vehicle damage high end debarking and scouring at the same time in the town lower my confidence.
It is the fact that many violent tornados in this area like Niles 85 or Henryville 12 also didn't produce high end debarking. Neither of them had severe scouring or high end vehicle damage either. It is also true that fast moving tornados are less likely to make high end vehicle damage and trees in this place was harder to debark. BUT, there were fast moving tornados made violent vehicle damage yet most of us still didn't regard it as EF5 tornado like Beauregard. There were tornados completely debark trees in OH alley yet still many people didn't see it as EF5 level tornado like Roanoke(with intense vehicle damage and scouring at the same time). So Washington 2013 tornado was an EF5 level tornado just beacuse the amount of questionable houses it swept away and the amount of debris it granulated is uncertain to me.I can think of a tons of EF4 rating even some EF2-3 rating tornados can make serious debris granulation.just not same amount of Washington made beacuse they didn't hit so many houses.
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Henryville scoured up chunks of pavement and slammed them on the nearby hillside with such force leaving impact craters. I don’t think Henryville caused EF5 damage to structures, but given the fast moving/multi-vortex nature of the tornado it’s possible for a brief instant it had EF5 winds.
 
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Marshal79344 said:
I was digging through Flickr and found some rare, old tornado photos. Here are some of them:

A violent tornado heads for Topeka, Kansas on June 8th, 1966

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A grove of foliage slaughtered by the same tornado above

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An ominous sight on the horizon announces its presence to Paris, Texas on April 2nd, 1982

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A photogenic stovepipe tornado passes by Mannsville, Kentucky on April 3, 1974

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Violent tornado damage in Clinton County, Kentucky after a tornado on April 3, 1974

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A view near Bridge Creek after May 3, 1999

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Looking into the eye of death in Iowa on May 25, 2008

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A large twister devastates a suburb in Suffolk, VA on April 28th, 2008

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Trees after an Arkansas Twister on April 27th, 2014

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Are there any more photos from the Clinton County Ky tornado in that album?
 
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CalebRoutt said:
Henryville scoured up chunks of pavement and slammed them on the nearby hillside with such force leaving impact craters. I don’t think Henryville caused EF5 damage to structures, but given the fast moving/multi-vortex nature of the tornado it’s possible for a brief instant it had EF5 winds.
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Is this what you're talking about?



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buckeye05 said:
I'm very curious about this as well. Seems like a potential EF4 candidate.
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Nothing official rating yet. I heard report from a chaser that there was a village had more severe damage than the one showed in the video. But very hard to find any information about this and no media had been allowed to report yet. Some experts from survey team and weather bureau that I know said damage like this can be rated EF2 or 3 at most.
 
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