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locomusic01
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The damage path (such as it was) grew to several miles wide but was mostly pretty light. I wouldn't be surprised if there were additional touchdowns at some point, but I haven't really found much evidence for it yet.Given the isolation of the parent, cyclic supercell, I would suggest that some of the “downburst”-attributed damage was actually related to additional tornadoes that formed past Udall.
The official path includes the whole long swath of (likely) downburst damage north and east of town; the actual path was closer to 35 miles. I still suspect there may have been two separate tornadoes just because there are a lot of damage points through the middle section of the path (roughly between Adamsville and Whitman) that don't make any sense for a single tornado, but I don't have enough information to work out the details yet.The more I think about it given Udall's official path length is 56 miles I think it was 2 separate tornadoes, 56 miles is really long (and rare) for a plains tornado. Especially given the time of year it occurred (May) where storm systems are pretty slow-moving usually.