Severe WX March 23-25th, 2023

[TornadoFan]

The roar of the Rolling Fork tornado in this video from Aaron Rigsby is something else.

That's more terrifying than any horror movie. .

 

[CheeselandSkies]

That's more terrifying than any horror movie. .

Note to anyone wanting to make a Twister sequel. That's the sound you're looking for. Not that lion roar.

 

[Jbop]

The roar of the Rolling Fork tornado in this video from Aaron Rigsby is something else.

Looks like a rabbit or something else sprinting/flying across the field starting at 13 seconds in

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

rabbit or something else sprinting/flying

If the rabbit was white, he may have been wanting to board the Jefferson Airplane.

 

[pohnpei]

 

[TH2002]

Saw that one of the DI's apparently being considered for EF4 190+ is this structure on the southwest side of town. Although I'm not sure what these kinds of buildings are usually rated (EF3 range?) from street view it hardly jumps out at me as an EF5 worthy structure:

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Saw that one of the DI's apparently being considered for EF4 190+ is this structure on the southwest side of town. Although I'm not sure what these kinds of buildings are usually rated (EF3 range?) from street view it hardly jumps out at me as an EF5 worthy structure:
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Yeah, either your source is in error or there's more going on here than meets the eye.

 

[jiharris0220]

That old rusted out shack of tin looks like it’ll be leveled and swept away in a ef1 tornado.
How in Sam’s hell is this one of the 190+ DI?

 

[ColdFront]

Thoughts? I know we still haven’t verified if this person is truly in the know, but this wouldn’t
indicate EF5 damage either. Impressive contextual? Absolutely.

 

[tornado examiner]

Saw that one of the DI's apparently being considered for EF4 190+ is this structure on the southwest side of town. Although I'm not sure what these kinds of buildings are usually rated (EF3 range?) from street view it hardly jumps out at me as an EF5 worthy structure:
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If that thing is being considered for high end ef4 than it must have been built like a bomb shelter

 

[Penitentes]

On the DAT that structure is listed as EF2 damage (windspeed of 112 mph).

 

[tornado examiner]

On the DAT that structure is listed as EF2 damage (windspeed of 112 mph).

Yup. Now why are they looking to up it? It looked to have been anchored at the corners with four bolts each but like…it’s still a tin shed

 

[buckeye05]

^I think this guy on Twitter is full of it honestly. Sounds like he's just spreading heresay and unconfirmed rumors, rather than having actual inside information. I'm taking his statements with a whole handful of salt. Regarding the slab scouring thing, it sounds to me like he's confusing nail scratch marks with something else.

 

[tornado examiner]

^I think this guy on Twitter is full of it honestly. Sounds like he's just spreading heresay and unconfirmed rumors, rather than having actual inside information. I'm taking his statements with a whole handful of salt. Regarding the slab scouring thing, it sounds to me like he's confusing nail scratch marks with something else.

Wouldn’t be the first time.

Still though the nws said that they’re still surveying the damage and that engineers are being brought in to finalize the survey and rating

 

[tornado examiner]

The amory di’s are up on the dat now

 

[Tennie]

This, in fact, is really nothing new. There have been a number of attempts over at least the past couple centuries to estimate wind speed from certain types of tornado damage (e.g. debris being embedded into an iron bridge from one of the tornadoes that hit St. Louis, MO, over the decades), and many of them tended to rely on assumptions made in calculations that may or (usually more likely) may not have accurately represented the phenomena that actually took place. Many of those calculations (particularly those in the pre-Fujita Scale era) tended to produce ridiculously high wind speeds (such as the one in the Tweet), which helped to lend a sort of air of credence to the old claims of tornadoes having wind speeds exceeding 500 MPH.

Thankfully for this guy, he does preface his estimates with a warning to take them with a grain of salt. That is something to give props to for sure.

 

[Equus]

Rummaging through the Amory damage points... looks like Amory itself had the highest DI's surprisingly. Two small areas of very low EF3 to the SW of town south of Nettleton (MEG went 140 for both destroyed frame homes and double wide, former must've been very poorly built w poor contextuals) and in Amory we have multiple industrial metal building systems tagged 155 along with one heavily damaged house on the north side of the track at 140. Heavy damage way down toward the center of town, more than just a glancing blow.

 

[Gail]

I wonder if the fatality count for the rolling fork tornado could go up again as people die from critical injuries over the coming weeks…hopefully not. But it’s a possibility.

Our Governor posted a drop in the totals this morning so I really hope they don’t increase! M

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

This, in fact, is really nothing new. There have been a number of attempts over at least the past couple centuries to estimate wind speed from certain types of tornado damage (e.g. debris being embedded into an iron bridge from one of the tornadoes that hit St. Louis, MO, over the decades), and many of them tended to rely on assumptions made in calculations that may or (usually more likely) may not have accurately represented the phenomena that actually took place. Many of those calculations (particularly those in the pre-Fujita Scale era) tended to produce ridiculously high wind speeds (such as the one in the Tweet), which helped to lend a sort of air of credence to the old claims of tornadoes having wind speeds exceeding 500 MPH.

Thankfully for this guy, he does preface his estimates with a warning to take them with a grain of salt. That is something to give props to for sure.

I think windspeeds in the most violent of all tornadoes may possibly reach 330 to 370 mph but 500+ mph sounds utterly ridiculous.

 

[CalebRoutt]

I think windspeeds in the most violent of all tornadoes may possibly reach 330 to 370 mph but 500+ mph sounds utterly ridiculous.

It’s not far fetched as you’d think especially when you disturb cyclostrophic balance in very low swirl ratio type vortices.