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Also will you be including the Liberty track you pointed out too or is that too sketchy to add?
I held off on that for now because I'm waiting to hear from a couple people who lived in that general area. I'm hoping someone might be able to give me some more info on it, but if not I'll probably just add it. I'm reasonably confident in it anyway.
 

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Okay, so I think this will probably be the final version of my outbreak map. It doesn't include the Leamington, ON F0 and the Tobyhanna, PA F1 because they were apparently ridiculously tiny + I didn't really find enough info to map them anyway. It does include the two undocumented tracks I'm most confident in though (listed as F?), which would make a total of 46 tornadoes - 32 in the US and 14 in Canada. All 91 fatalities are also included along with their names - 79 in the US and 12 in Canada. Of the US deaths, 67 were in PA and 12 were in Ohio.

Another cool thing I didn't realize before: you can click on each tornado track to see its total area. Not surprisingly, Moshannon is by far the largest at 63.1 mi². In fact, the next closest is Atlantic at "only" 33.1 mi². Despite being ~42 mi long, Niles-Wheatland only encompasses 7.5 mi² because much of the path was quite narrow.

Will any of these have the ability to be downloaded into Google Earth in a kml file?
 
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Another day another sig tor I'm looking for photos of. And maybe a popularity boost like what happened with 5/23/2008.

The tornado I'm looking for pictures of this time is the Estill, SC EF4 of April 13, 2020. Granted the thing was a QLCS tornado at 3:00 AM in the morning so I doubt there are too many photos of it but who knows? I didn't know of any Cairo or Cedar Bluff photos either, until I asked!
 

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Another day another sig tor I'm looking for photos of. And maybe a popularity boost like what happened with 5/23/2008.

The tornado I'm looking for pictures of this time is the Estill, SC EF4 of April 13, 2020. Granted the thing was a QLCS tornado at 3:00 AM in the morning so I doubt there are too many photos of it but who knows? I didn't know of any Cairo or Cedar Bluff photos either, until I asked!
There are no photos of the Estill tornado.
 

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There are no photos of the Estill tornado.
Wow, you'd have thought there would be something. Lots of folks (well at least some) would have been up at 6AM and darn near everyone has a cellphone camera now. Whole different area of my State so I'd have no idea of who to ask there.

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Wow, you'd have thought there would be something. Lots of folks (well at least some) would have been up at 6AM and darn near everyone has a cellphone camera now. Whole different area of my State so I'd have no idea of who to ask there.

Phil
I'm sure there is, just a matter of digging them up somewhere.
 
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There are no photos of the Estill tornado.
Ahhh. Of course. Such is the story of tornadoes past midnight and before sunrise, it seems.

Lots of folks (well at least some) would have been up at 6AM
No, no, Estill was at 3 AM. Only insommniacs are usually up at that hour and everyone who was woken up by sirens was probably a lot more busy either running for shelter or getting killed.
 

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Ahhh. Of course. Such is the story of tornadoes past midnight and before sunrise, it seems.


No, no, Estill was at 3 AM. Only insommniacs are usually up at that hour and everyone who was woken up by sirens was probably a lot more busy either running for shelter or getting killed.
Hmmm... the Wikipedia article said touchdown was 6:10 AM with a duration of 27 minutes. If it was 3AM then yeah, pics would be unlikely. If anyone has Wikipedia editing access maybe they can fix it in both the "Estill" and "Nixville" pages.

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The more I look at the chaos that occurred in Kansas on 5/23/2008, the more angry I get that basically everyone focused exclusively on Quinter. The EF3 tornadoes in particular seemed to be incredibly intense. Like Locomusic said, Mullinville was basically Greensburg without the town. The Buttermilk tornado threw antique cars into isolated ravines, never to be seen again. Cedar Bluff Reservoir threw farm implements up to half a mile. Trousdale, Cairo and Fort Supply were nothing to scoff at either.

I've essentially given up hope of there being any Mullinville photos. There were exactly four chasers near the storm - Two were too late for Mullinville, another couldn't see it from the forward flank core, and the fourth didn't post a chase log. Also given up hope on Buttermilk (Very, very rural) and Trousdale (Also extremely rural), so it looks like Cairo, Cedar Bluff and Fort Supply were the only photographed EF3 tornadoes that night.
 

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11 years ago today - here's some lesser seen footage. May 20 was also the 9th anniversary of the Moore tornado.





These next two videos are particularly frightening; filmed in the parking lot of St. John's, so this guy was EXTREMELY lucky.




His Chevy Blazer lost all its windows, the luggage rack and tail lights, but still fared well compared to other vehicles parked nearby:
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Homes that were swept from their foundations:
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An incredibly violent tornado going through a densely populated area is obviously never going to end well, but Joplin was truly a worst-case scenario compounded by confusing, mixed signals and the storm's rain-wrapped nature. There was little many of those in the path could have done, and that's the worst part.

May those who were lost 11 years ago R.I.P.
 

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11 years ago today - here's some lesser seen footage. May 20 was also the 9th anniversary of the Moore tornado.





These next two videos are particularly frightening; filmed in the parking lot of St. John's, so this guy was EXTREMELY lucky.




His Chevy Blazer lost all its windows, the luggage rack and tail lights, but still fared well compared to other vehicles parked nearby:
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Homes that were swept from their foundations:
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An incredibly violent tornado going through a densely populated area is obviously never going to end well, but Joplin was truly a worst-case scenario compounded by confusing, mixed signals and the storm's rain-wrapped nature. There was little many of those in the path could have done, and that's the worst part.

May those who were lost 11 years ago R.I.P.

That first picture of the truck wrapped around the tree is just insane. I really wonder how strong the winds had to be to do that.
 

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It’s pretty interesting how it just went from total annihilation to minor damage in only 1-3 miles.
I've never heard anyone not agree that this was the most damage-intense tornado ever, and the slow ground speed absolutely played a role in that. As I understand it, at some parts of it's path it was moving at only 3-5 MPH; something like a fast walking or jogging pace. It moved faster after Double Creek but the 1-3 miles took much longer than what we normally see, so I can understand how the weakening would seem quick- only it really wasn't.
 

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I was able to pinpoint the exact location those slabs from Joplin. These homes were located along E 18th Street, immediately south of Parr Hill Park and northeast of Joplin High School. Probable EF5 damage occurred here as these homes were well built, and bolted to poured concrete slab foundations. What's also interesting is that this area was located outside of the main EF5 damage core, which mostly stayed south of E 20th Street prior to crossing Range Line Road, so perhaps a subvortex took out these homes?
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One final interesting tidbit: The homes that sit on those foundations today were rebuilt to be nearly identical to the ones that were there prior to the tornado.
 
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