With all due respect, you have, but again, it’s my fault for, quite honestly, piss poor clarification.
Going back to the violent core, this quote from my response to Grand Poo Bah is what I was actually trying to say here.
“Exactly what I’m talking about, a rare group of wedge tornadoes develop a central core, and it’s these tornadoes that cause the most extreme feats of damage known.
Obviously though when this being say said, I don’t mean that tornadoes that lack a violent core don’t produce extreme damage.
All wedge tornadoes have a meso vortex structure, but only few manage to develop a central core structure.
Greensburg and Joplin are examples of meso vortex structures that never developed a violent core, but the meso vortices are what did the extreme damage.
Smithville, Bass-field, Jarrel, Bridge creek, Moore 2013, and Piedmont are examples of wedges that did manage to develop a violent core.
The main point being that despite how impressive a TVS looks, it doesn’t always correlate to where the most extreme damage is going to be because in the vast majority of cases, meso vortex structures simply can’t produce a consistent swath of extreme damage due to the instantaneous nature of violent winds.”
And another quote talking about the same thing.
To clear up any confusion, meso vortices can in fact inflict extreme damage as well, but the area of damage is consequently more random and patchy rather than consistent. Violent tornadoes can produce that sort of damage just from meso vorts alone. Which I can assume is where the confusion came from when you responded to my point about “most wedges fail to develop a violent core” which is true. Core structures inside wedges are rare, again, most wedges are dominantly meso vortex structures, and these meso vortices can produce violent damage, but aren’t considered a core.
Obviously “wedge” is nothing but a visible representation of what a tornado looks like.
Im using the word “wedge” just as a descriptive term for the outer parent funnel since it’s easier to visualize. (Again, a substantial clarification fault on my part)
I’m not “invoking” anything, these structures inside tornadoes do exist, Ted Fujita, and many studies including the one I posted a few comments back (Figure 6) confirms this. Which just by looking at the damage path of wedge tornadoes, it’s easy to make out if they are meso vortex dominant (which almost all of them are, and again, can do extreme damage themselves) or the rare few that do develop a violent core. (Which again, “core” is a structural term, and is not in any way saying that non wedges or even wedges that never develop one don’t do violent damage)
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