Enhanced Fujita Ratings Debate Thread

[jiharris0220]

Underrated? Sure - I don’t know if it was unfairly underrated or if it was underrated just as a consequence of the scale’s confines, though. The tree damage from Robinson was really impressive. Egregiously underrated? Definitely not.

I actually do still think the Robinson survey was egregious, but not the usual reason of egregious. Any survey that involves missed DIs is automatically a bad one IMO, despite it being understandable why a lot of the homes went unsurveyed.
Obviously though, this isn’t a scenario where the weather office deliberately underrated the DIs that were surveyed.

Overall though, the March 31/April 1, 2023 tornado outbreak certainly had at the very least 3 violent tornadoes, and reasonably 5.

 

[ThatGuy;P]

Are any of the tornadoes from the southern mode considered to be violent candidates?

 

[SouthFLwx]

Are any of the tornadoes from the southern mode considered to be violent candidates?

that one long-tracked Tennessee tornado that happened overnight

 

[TH2002]

Thought it was caked in mud but I think it might've been the fourth image. Dunno how I would've mixed it up. Joplin was crazy.

found this photo, maybe the one you were referring to? (it's also from Joplin btw)

that one long-tracked Tennessee tornado that happened overnight

McNairy Co. definitely should have been rated a low-end EF4 based on the destruction of the Purdy Community Center, pavement scouring and partial debarking.

 

[eep]

found this photo, maybe the one you were referring to? (it's also from Joplin btw)



McNairy Co. definitely should have been rated a low-end EF4 based on the destruction of the Purdy Community Center, pavement scouring and partial debarking.

Now that I've been thinking about it, it might have been the Greenfield stop and I probably misread the reply. Thanks for the help though. It's a good lesson though, vaguely misremembering things is probably how most of the crazier tornado rumors start lol.

 

[akt1985]

What is everyone’s opinion of the Castilian Springs, Tennessee tornado from Super Tuesday 2008? It was rated an EF2 at first before being upgraded to low-end EF3 but it had the most fatalities from all the tornadoes in that outbreak.