This reminds me of the reasoning for the F3 rating for the Mulvane tornado. There was a wooden light pole still standing by the leveled house and that prevented an F4 rating. You can't make this stuff up.
“Chris Darden, engineer Tim Marshall, and others reviewed the destruction to the house and ultimately designated it as high-end EF4 damage. Per our interview with Chris, “It was pretty well swept… it didn’t quite qualify for a 5. There was some small debris that was still around. The home was built pretty well, but there was some anchoring that was a little bit suspect with it. There was a little bit of the cow fencing that was still there, that had not been completely destroyed… In my mind, to this day, that tornado probably was a five.”
Since this is the Enhanced Fujita Ratings Debate Thread and not the Which State is the Worst Debate Thread, perhaps it might be a good idea to get a new one going for the latter - doing so would certainly facilitate some interesting responses
Nothing besides tree damage from Flat Rock strikes me as EF5 damage.
Lol is this an attempt at a diss? I have no extra personal investment in the ratings of tornadoes in my personal WFO area nor the state I live in, so I don't really care. High-end EF3 would have been fine for Dayton too. In fact, I find the EF4 rating to that apartment complex very questionable. This is a good insight into the childish IMBY mindset though, and you are a perfect example. Sorry "your" tornado isn't as special as you want it to be, but go ahead and keep coping and seething, and being blinded by your own childish IMBY bias and bizarre personal emotional investment in "your" tornado. Freaking weirdo...
LMAO that exact GIF forms the title card for Todd In The Shadows' Trainwreckords videos............Lol
All good, my little “angry” emoji was in jest lol especially after the California joke. As I’ve gotten older, I too have picked up the sense of humor that I’m basically a good ole KY redneck haha.This thread is even better then it was before
Seriously though, I simply said lots of EF4s are actually missed EF5s and this all happened lol.
Also, concerning the Midwest and South I was just making a joke to lighten things up (I'm a native Midwesterner, I got a sense of humor about my heritage) before getting back down to business (tornado ratings). So let's do that.
There's this entry from 2016 where he proposes doing away with these kinds of ratings altogether:
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That can't rate higher than an "Engine Frontal 2" because both locomotives remained upright and the lettering wasn't mud-splattered. The cow jumping over the moon just out of frame on the right also gives us contextual indication that the engineer of the left train skipped breakfast that day.
Maybe you should drink some milk or something idk. Just stop typing messages with your face red. After all it’s not worth putting so much emotion into ratings, especially when you weren’t there.
Yeah, this one really get little attention while doing very impressive damage. It occurred in an exceptional rare environment with cape over 8000.In my opinion the July 17, 2011 LaMoure County/Berlin, ND EF3 is one of the most underappreciated EF4/EF5 candidates. This tornado didn't hit much yet still managed to utterly mangle literally every vehicle it encountered, cause ground scouring and partially scour the foundation of a grain bin, debark numerous trees and an allegedly well-built farmhouse was swept away. Had this tornado occurred in any other year it would probably have gotten a lot more attention, but was naturally overshadowed by other events (again putting into perspective just HOW violent 2011 was for tornadoes).
thats what botherd me , the whole , it can only be rated ef4 but it for sure had ef5 winds thing , like how are you sure it had ef5 winds? if its damage then rate it ef5? if it isnt then that means theres some sort of wind measurement , but we havent herd anything about this.
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