Enhanced Fujita Ratings Debate Thread

[slenker]

9 F5s. 9!!! Even on my list (the official 7 + perhaps Moodyville, Tennessee and one of Frankfort or Mannsville), this surpasses even 74.

Might be a very hot take, but after everything I've seen on this forum from past crazy outbreaks, I'd put both Palm Sunday 1965 and the 2011 Super Outbreak above the 1974 Super Outbreak. Guin, Tanner (I forget which one was worse though), and Brandenburg were the most violent tornadoes from that day from what I can see, and the damage they inflicted was reminiscent of the damage inflicted by tornadoes from the other two outbreaks. However, to me, 1965 and 2011 simply felt like they had more truly upper-echelon tornadoes, and I feel like the F-scale ratings for 1974 were skewed heavily towards granting more violent ratings (and in 1965 and 2011 it was the other way around).

I'm willing to maybe say that 1965 may have been less intense than 1974, but definitely not 2011. The 2011 Super Outbreak is the peak of tornado outbreaks in today's day and age.

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Might be a very hot take, but after everything I've seen on this forum from past crazy outbreaks, I'd put both Palm Sunday 1965 and the 2011 Super Outbreak above the 1974 Super Outbreak. Guin, Tanner (I forget which one was worse though), and Brandenburg were the most violent tornadoes from that day from what I can see, and the damage they inflicted was reminiscent of the damage inflicted by tornadoes from the other two outbreaks. However, to me, 1965 and 2011 simply felt like they had more truly upper-echelon tornadoes, and I feel like the F-scale ratings for 1974 were skewed heavily towards granting more violent ratings (and in 1965 it was the other way around).

I'm willing to maybe say that 1965 may have been less intense than 1974, but definitely not 2011. The 2011 Super Outbreak is the peak of tornado outbreaks in today's day and age.

Nothing from DePauw nor Cincinnati or convince me they were actually F5s.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Personally, based on recent impressive discussion, I have
The official 4
Plus
New Wren
Tuscaloosa
Flat Rock
Ringgold (which was apparently also extremely intense in Tennessee)
Cullman

9 F5s. 9!!! Even on my list (the official 7 + perhaps Moodyville, Tennessee and one of Frankfort or Mannsville), this surpasses even 74.

Also would personally add Cordova as it caused what TH2002 viewed as EF5 damage in Cullman County. And Barnesville based off contextuals.

11 EF5s. ELEVEN.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Nothing from DePauw nor Cincinnati or the two Tanner tornadoes convince me they were actually F5s.

I recall the quote looking like this when I first saw it lol. I was about to say, there is actually enough evidence to support F5 for BOTH Tanners, and I think DePauw and Cincinnati. Not enough evidence supporting EF5 for any of those, however.

 

[slenker]

Also, a little side note: The fact that we can see that many of the 2011 Super Outbreak tornadoes were more violent than their ratings suggested, and it still resulted in four EF5 tornadoes, is absolutely ludicrous to me, and really gives credence to how insane 2011 was.

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Also, a little side note: The fact that we can see that many of the 2011 Super Outbreak tornadoes were more violent than their ratings suggested, and it still resulted in four EF5 tornadoes, is absolutely ludicrous to me, and really gives credence to how insane 2011 was.

Also, Chickasha and Goldsby.

Has anyone looked at the Raleigh-Uniontown EF4 (the long-tracker in MS and AL)? I feel like that one was also particularly intense based on environment and track length.

 

[Aaron Rider]

Nothing from DePauw nor Cincinnati or convince me they were actually F5s.

In fairness, I've also never seen anything to convince me they weren't.