Severe WX March 23-25th, 2023

[jiharris0220]

My house

Oh, I actually thought you meant smithville as in the worst damage it caused. Freaked me out their for a moment, lol.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

That's what others have told me. LOL!

It's like where I used to live center point got hit by two ef3s within 10 years lol. But I'd say Smithville is even more so a magnet than the Northside of Birmingham

 

[JPWX]

It's like where I used to live center point got hit by two ef3s within 10 years lol. But I'd say Smithville is even more so a magnet than the Northside of Birmingham

That's what I'm beginning to think as well. I've also noticed that oddly enough storms of recent have liked to intensify once they hit the Monroe County line. With the February storm, it took just 14 minutes from broad rotation to full on debris ball.

 

[tornado examiner]

The rolling fork water tower isn’t nearly as high of an indicator as the mayfield tower was…

 

[jiharris0220]

Didn’t really even need daylight to tell it was piss poor in construction. The fact that small wooden structures right next to it are still somewhat standing and not bear slabs is a huge giveaway.

 

[Gail]

That’s a long trip for a slip of paper.



And then this car in Rolling Fork.

 

[ColdFront]

Didn’t really even need daylight to tell it was piss poor in construction. The fact that small wooden structures right next to it are still somewhat standing and not bear slabs is a huge giveaway.

C’mon man….piss poor LOL (thought you were going for the water tower/pee joke)

On the other hand, I would say even large site built homes would have flaws a survey engineering team would find. A lot of times it’s not necessarily the most “tornado proof” methods used but cheapest and quickest to get a home built.

 

[Equus]

Looking closely I'm not even sure what kind of anchoring that water tower even had, whatever it was looked really marginal; thinking it was barely anchored and was pushed by relatively modest winds/pulled up a little and the change in weight distribution made it crumple near the base, mignt not have been nearly the indicator we thought it was

 

[jiharris0220]

Honestly, it’s quite unfortunate the amount of deaths caused by this tornado could’ve been completely prevented just by simply having at bear minimum standard housing.
An unacceptable amount of residences were resided in mobile homes or toothpick structures.
Sure, some particular damage surveys have made quite a bit of questionable decisions in rating violent tornado damage. But we really can’t fault them because adequate building codes are basically nonexistent in the US.

 

[Gail]

C’mon man….piss poor LOL (thought you were going for the water tower/pee joke)

On the other hand, I would say even large site built homes would have flaws a survey engineering team would find. A lot of times it’s not necessarily the most “tornado proof” methods used but cheapest and quickest to get a home built.

I’m seriously considering that our next home will be a monolithic dome. I just have to save to build one of the nicer styles and not the round, snow globe-looking style homes. Like these:

 

[Equus]

Huntsville has confirmed four tornadoes in their CWA and three of them were EF2; the EF2 near Hartselle is responsible for a fatality

 

[ColdFront]

I’m seriously considering that our next home will be a monolithic dome. I just have to save to build one of the nicer styles and not the round, snow globe-looking style homes. Like these:

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Neat. There was a “tornado” proof dome that got pretty badly dinged up by the 2011 Chickasha tornado, but it survived intact.

 

[UncleJuJu98]

I’m seriously considering that our next home will be a monolithic dome. I just have to save to build one of the nicer styles and not the round, snow globe-looking style homes. Like these:

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Just build a underground home , safe from a alien invasion and a tornado. Double whammy in value

 

[Gail]

Just build an underground home , safe from an alien invasion and a tornado. Double whammy in value

Not so easy here in Mississippi where we can’t even have basements. Lol. I actually would like an underground home though!

 

[Equus]

Meanwhile, this happened with the brief TDS near Bear Creek, so BMX will probably get in on the survey action eventually

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

I didn't take that wind speed as final. I imagine they want the QRT to weigh in and mentioning 170mph was along the lines of we think it's an EF-4 with winds of at least 170mph." I didn't hear the quote, or its context, so that's just rank speculation on my part, however, I'm virtually certain they have not finalized wind speed or rating yet.

Isn't a QRT required when a tornado event iabove a low-end EF4? Sorry about the caps but I do have a habit of writing in all caps.

 

[brianc33710]

Just build a underground home , safe from a alien invasion and a tornado. Double whammy in value

But what about floods?

 

[ColdFront]

Isn't a QRT required when a tornado event iabove a low-end EF4? Sorry about the caps but I do have a habit of writing in all caps.

Tim Marshall was in Mayfield pretty quick, not sure if he’s actually part of the NWS QRT though or an independent consultant

 

[Sawmaster]

My house

When you mentioned dropping out to shelter you took a lot of prayers with you Had your roof been trusses, you'd probably have walls down. Glad it wasn't worse!

 

[andyhb]

That’s a long trip for a slip of paper.

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And then this car in Rolling Fork.

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Better shot of that car. A literal spear coming at you at over 150 mph.