Texas Tech has Fujita's entire collection - photos, videos, maps, notes, papers, books, interviews, etc. But most of it is only accessible in person and you need to buy leases if you want to actually use anything. It's BS, but it's just one of many incredible collections that are effectively locked away from the public.
This one is always weird to me:
This reminded me - I know I've posted most of the Brandenburg survey photos I was able to get (at some point I'll put all of them in a zip file and post a link) but I'm not sure if I've ever posted the other stuff.
Where'd you find all these color photos and the Brandenburg color photos? I can't find them on Texas Tech's archives, or maybe I'm not looking good enough.Okay, here's the Xenia stuff:
And there was randomly one photo from the Monticello F4 survey as well:
I'm not sure they ever had them posted publicly. I was just kinda snooping around the website's root directory way back and stumbled upon them. There were these 4/3/74 photos, the Jarrell photos and IIRC some from the Lubbock F5, but those didn't really show anything of interest so I never saved them. No idea if they're still accessible anywhere because they overhauled the website several years ago.
Ah man, got lucky there. I wonder if a bunch of color photographs from Tanner and Guin were available once but are since gone cuz of overhauling the site.
I searched pretty thoroughly and that was all that turned up, unfortunately. I dunno why those specific ones out of all the thousands and thousands of photos they have from hundreds of different surveys, but I wasn't complaining lol
In that first Xenia photo there does appear to be debris granulation and some debarking of low-lying trees/shrubs, which helps support its F5 rating IMO.Okay, here's the Xenia stuff:
And there was randomly one photo from the Monticello F4 survey as well:
Xenia's path reminds me of Niles-Wheatland, just not quite as violent IMO. But in terms of the sharp gradient, the wind rowing, etc.
I'm wandering which town was it in the fourth and fifth pic? Was it Guin or Hunteville?This reminded me - I know I've posted most of the Brandenburg survey photos I was able to get (at some point I'll put all of them in a zip file and post a link) but I'm not sure if I've ever posted the other stuff.
These are all from Northern Alabama (mostly Madison County), but they didn't include any specific location info:
I've never tried to match it up so I'm not sure, but I don't think it's Guin. More likely somewhere in the Decatur - Madison - Huntsville area.
Originally Guin & Huntsville were believed to be a single tornado with a 132 mile long path (sound familiar) but the section from Decatur to Hytop was determined to be from the F3 that affected Huntsville (although some of the pics from Madison make me wonder if it may have achieved F4 intensity at some point).
Maybe this was done by a suction vortex that dissipated right before hitting the building? Fujita said the F5 damage gradient was extremely narrow when viewed from the air at some points, Guin kinda reminds me of Niles-Wheatland in some ways.This one is always weird to me:
If you only focus on the foreground, it looks like rather impressive vegetation damage. But then the building 20 feet away looks practically untouched aside from the broken windows.
I think the rapid forward speeds of Dixie wedges often leads to the damage contours being so sharp, as the core of extreme winds doesn't have much time to affect an area compared to slower-moving wedges like on the plains or Jarrel/Loyal Valley type-tornadoes.
Yeah that’s the one. The foreground shows nothing but bare soil with all surface vegetation removed. I honestly can’t think of any photos from Hackleburg-Phil Campbell that show anything quite like that, unless it’s something I haven’t seen yet.
That first photo. Wow. some of the most textbook debris granulation I’ve seen.Okay, here's the Xenia stuff:
And there was randomly one photo from the Monticello F4 survey as well:
