With all that said, there are some encouraging signs. More detail and the addition of other non-structural factors, such as radar data, will beneficial. Also, as another user mentioned, there was a noticeable lack of questionable ratings associated with the recent November 4 outbreak. Each and every tornado that needed an upgrade, got an upgrade. That almost never happens.
With that said, there were some of other surveys this year that were too conservative, mainly during the second big outbreak, as the surveys for the Iowa outbreak in early March were pretty fair.
March 21
-Round Rock/Granger, TX should be upped to EF3 (an anchored house was leveled and largely slabbed. I mean seriously? Come on...)
-Bowie, TX should be upped to EF2
-Gainesville, TX should be upped to EF2
-Kingston, OK should be upped to EF2
-An argument for EF3 can be made for a few others like Elgin, Buncombe Creek, and Ore City, but high-end EF2 isn't totally inappropriate.
April 29
-Not as bad as others, but after lots of pondering and comparison with other events, I have changed my mind and think that marginal EF4 would have been fine for Andover, KS. The construction wasn't good, but the severe debarking at and around the obliterated pet supplies shop, and lofting of large metal shipping containers/cars through the air provides just enough contextual support to push it to EF4, in my opinion at least. I do not think there was any EF4 structural damage with that one though.
I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. What other 2022 tornado ratings to you guys think they got wrong? Curious to hear.
With that said, there were some of other surveys this year that were too conservative, mainly during the second big outbreak, as the surveys for the Iowa outbreak in early March were pretty fair.
March 21
-Round Rock/Granger, TX should be upped to EF3 (an anchored house was leveled and largely slabbed. I mean seriously? Come on...)
-Bowie, TX should be upped to EF2
-Gainesville, TX should be upped to EF2
-Kingston, OK should be upped to EF2
-An argument for EF3 can be made for a few others like Elgin, Buncombe Creek, and Ore City, but high-end EF2 isn't totally inappropriate.
April 29
-Not as bad as others, but after lots of pondering and comparison with other events, I have changed my mind and think that marginal EF4 would have been fine for Andover, KS. The construction wasn't good, but the severe debarking at and around the obliterated pet supplies shop, and lofting of large metal shipping containers/cars through the air provides just enough contextual support to push it to EF4, in my opinion at least. I do not think there was any EF4 structural damage with that one though.
I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. What other 2022 tornado ratings to you guys think they got wrong? Curious to hear.