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Can someone confirm the actual fatality count for the little rock tornado? Is it 1 or 5?
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Severe WX March 30th- April 1st 2023 (South, Southeast, Ohio Valley, Upper Midwest)
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By the way, you rocked that! Awesome video!
So we have our first EF4. Also @CheeselandSkies please continue the flexing. Those shots you took, they are so perfect.
So that leaves a few of the TN tornados and the cell that dropped a few in IL and Indiana as EF4 candidates
So that leaves a few of the TN tornados and the cell that dropped a few in IL and Indiana as EF4 candidates
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Which stinesville? Is it Indiana?
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Thank you!
I went through all my video today to finalize editing of the full version. I just can't believe how in the space of about 5 minutes the second tornado manage to resemble about half a dozen major tornadoes from history, including some from events that I chased and busted painfully on. Gilmore City 2022, Henryville, Andover, Rochelle...
One thing I did realize was that my situational awareness was not great, however, my deliberately giving the ongoing first tornado a wide berth was the reason I still had somewhat of a margin for safety as the second tornado formed much closer to me out of what I thought was rotation around the periphery of the first mesocyclone, not a new one. With it being a "run and gun" situation on a very fast-moving cell, I didn't really have a whole lot of time to analyze what the storm was doing apart from the ongoing first tornado, nor carefully look at radar and really relate it to what I was seeing visually.
A couple other things I would have done differently:
1.) Remembered to switch off my damn windshield wipers after pulling over, before rushing out to set up my tripod for my camcorder. It wasn't evening raining on me anymore, although earlier I had driven through a little bit of rain from the anvil as I dropped south across the front of the storm (yikes - that's why I'm glad I didn't go to Sigourney first, then I would have had to go through the core). It effectively ruined my GoPro footage, which would have made a cool timelapse of the first several minutes I watched the first tornado, before turning my car around to face east on the correct side of the road for a quick escape if necessary.
2.) Put my main camcorder in 4K mode instead of 1080p. I normally just shoot in 1080 to save drive space. The main benefit would be having those still frames in nearly the same resolution as my DSLR photos.
3.) Really wish I had taken a DSLR photo during the phase of the second tornado when it first began to mature and looked like a classic tapered cone with a massive debris cloud (the frame grab that's now my avatar picture). However this tornado morphed and changed appearances so quickly each one only lasted 30 seconds to a minute, tops wile I was observing it.
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Yeah Indiana. Probably another ef3
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(Sorry if this has been posted already, I didn’t see it)
If “F around and find out” were a person
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Her FB: https://www.facebook.com/untamedsouthernsass.kimshaw
If “F around and find out” were a person
:Her FB: https://www.facebook.com/untamedsouthernsass.kimshaw
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(Sorry if this has been listed already, I didn’t see it)
If “F around and find out” were a person
Her FB: https://www.facebook.com/untamedsouthernsass.kimshaw
She's lucky it wasn't "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
Death toll in McNairy Co. TN is up to 9.
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Deadliest tornado of the outbreak so far. Then again it was a long track night wedge
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72 homes destroyed in McNairy County per the Commercial Appeal. Damage in Adamsville looks EF2-EF3ish but we’ll have to see what NWS Memphis’ survey finds.
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Tuckers Rd SE of Greenwood, DE. This is the house where the (now confirmed) fatality occurred.
Another home near Greenwood, missing much of its roof
Another home near Greenwood, missing much of its roof
More significant damage from that DE tornado, wouldn't be surprised if we pull an EF3 out of that.
tornado examiner
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Probably gonna have like..6 or 7 ef3’s when it’s all said and done
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I think that the storm responsible for the Sullivan ef3 may have ended up producing 2 more separate possible ef3 tornadoes…
All I can say is wow. We all use 2011 as a mythical benchmark and should. If this continues at this pace we may have a new and slightly different benchmark for a year with tornadoes.
TornadoFan
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Wow.
jiharris0220
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I will never not be amazed about just how instantaneously a tornado can destroy a landscape.
