Apparently this is also from Andover, not sure if a home or just a shed, but I'll post and see what happens. I'll have to dig way back earlier in the thread for my previous posts on it, suffice to say that the F5 rating was well-deserved. It is also another case where it's difficult to find photographs from the hardest hit areas.
Andover was a solid F5. My intention is not at all to question the rating as the vehicle damage alone was indicative of F5 strength, but you would think with how well known the tornado is, there would be more ground level photos of homes readily available.
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Speaking of vehicle damage, I was looking through my Fargo F5 folder the other day and stumbled upon this photo I'd forgotten about. It looks like the chassis of a bus that's been completely stripped but it's hard to even tell for certain:
I've seen the Storm Data aerial of this trailer park but nothing beyond that; had no clue it was as violent as you've discovered. The only other instances I can think of where even the frames were torn to bits are with Andover and Jarrell (and maybe Bridge Creek-Moore, but not entirely sure). Heck, I think Jarrell more or less obliterated some mobile homes from existence, as apparently many of them vanished without a trace and only bits and pieces of the frames could be found.Speaking of vehicle damage, I was looking through my Fargo F5 folder the other day and stumbled upon this photo I'd forgotten about. It looks like the chassis of a bus that's been completely stripped but it's hard to even tell for certain:
..Which also reminds me that I don't think I ever shared another impressive instance of vehicle damage from 5/31/85. This is from the Atlantic F4 and I'm about 90% sure it's the Chevy pickup that belonged to one of the people I interviewed. I asked them about it when I found it but then they never got back to me. Anyway, if it is the same one, it was parked basically next door to the Pinedale Trailer Court and was launched clear into the treeline at the top of an adjacent hill - a distance of just over 700 yards. A large part of the cab was obviously ripped away and, although you can't really see it well here, the bed was crushed almost like an accordion and ended up barely half its normal length.
So, the truck would've been parked sort of behind and to the right of the camera here and it ended up near that treeline to the right of the main road.
Another reason this came to mind is because, IMO, Pinedale Trailer Court also experienced some of the most violent damage I've ever seen to a mobile home park. I think I've posted a few photos before, but there was basically just.. nothing left. Even some of the trailer frames were torn into small pieces.
Yeah, it was quite impressive.
Yeah, it was quite impressive.
Thank goodness most of the people who lived there weren't home at the time or else the death toll almost certainly would've been far higher. Only one young woman was killed in the park itself; the three other fatalities that are usually included occurred in a well-built frame house on the property that was obliterated. You can see what was left of it next to the road.
I doubt there was any damage that could actually have been rated F5, but that's only because I'm not sure any structures were built to those standards. Entirely possible it reached that intensity though, IMO. And yeah, I'll be covering the meteorology of the event as well.
One thing I noticed with Barrie is that it curved near its dissipation point on Lake Simcoe and came dangerously close to coming ashore for the nearby Shanty Bay community but thankfully that didn't happen.
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It's worth mentioned that Czech EF4 this year and Baochang tornado also occurred on the same day which was quite a coincidence too. Both of them were soild contender of the strongest tornado of the year and historic tornado event for their region.
There were so many abnormal tornado events in the 80s: March 28, 1984 Carolinas outbreak, May 31, 1985 outbreak, July 10, 1989 Northeast outbreak, 1984 USSR outbreak, 1987 Northeast China outbreak, 1987 Edmonton F4, 1987 Yellowstone-Teton F4 and 1981 West Bend anticyclonic F4.