Trust me - some tornadoes can be absolutely tiny. The Ashby MN EF4 was doing ground scouring in a swath about 1m wide towards the end of its life. Not saying it was an EF4 or anything, but some tornadoes can be really thin. Not ruling out either option though.
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Severe WX March 30th- April 1st 2023 (South, Southeast, Ohio Valley, Upper Midwest)
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atrainguy
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Yeah, that thing was crazy skinny. This is one of my favorite tornado videos on Youtube. Skip to 16:30 for the closeup of the drill bit.
That's a amazing video wow
Check out the Elie, Manitoba EF5
Edit: Sorry, forgot to add - I do wonder if the home in question may have had a feature like a covered porch that extended from thethe main roof and was lifted, compromising the structure below.
Isn't that the tornado that circled around back over the same spot?
That’s one of the strangest tornadoes I’ve seen
atrainguy
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Turrell was very violent on radar but nothing too crazy showed up yet maybe due to the not hitting major stuff. Covington was also violent on radar and did some significant debarking
Based on video, Martinburg actually likely shared similar intensity with Keota, just didn't hit much in its lifetime maybe.
Whiteland IN did some heavy damage and there was a slab in town
Wynne apparently also did very significant damage in town with some houses completely collapsed and we still don't know the quality.
There were still many other tornados' damage remain uncovered in this stage but it seems to me that we may ended up with lots of EF2/EF3+ tornados for this event. It was definitely the most verified high risk in last 10 years at least.
Ah, I had completely forgotten about this one. Really enjoy the crazy rotation in these narrow ones.
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Sadly, there was a tornado fatality from overnight storms in the Huntsville metro area around Hazel Green.
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One dead, three others critically injured in Madison County storms
One person is dead and three others are critically injured in the Hazel Green area
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Yeah we had some violent tornados yesterday, and numerous strong/intense ones as well.
I haven’t seen anything yet that would lead me to believe we had anything EF5 like. Multiple EF3-EF4 indicators though.
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Looks like a hailer coming into the Detroit area. Thankfully it looks pretty small right now.
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Even if something EF5 worthy does pop up, EF5 ratings are extinct so...
RIP EF5. 1953-2013
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Vilonia is what killed EF5 ratings.
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I’m interested to get confirmed numbers from yesterday. That was a prolific event with a lot of significant tornadoes
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Wow, the water softener and dryer being totally smashed like that... Those are usually in a basement up here, but that looks like it might have been a crawlspace rather than basement.
Both subjectively and objectively, this is incorrect. While there are certainly EF4 candidates from yesterday, the number of sig tornadoes and EF3 candidates alone easily verifies both high risk areas.