Yeah, that survey in the Robinson area from ILX was pretty poor. These surveys with a number of missing, potentially higher end DIs are becoming too common as of late.
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I think we had at least 3 EF4s, maybe a 4th. But as Andy pointed out, at this point, do just a handful of WFOs even care about putting in the bare minimum effort on correct surveying? Does anyone at those offices even care?so the March 31 event now tied with Easter outbreak, becoming the third largest outbreak of all time in terms of tornado counts in 24 hours. The number of significant tornados is now stand at 45, which also second only to two super outbreaks in history.
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stormdate | 3/31/2023, 4:17 PM |
surveydate | 4/10/2023, 9:22 AM |
event_id | |
damage | 1.00 |
damage_txt | Small Barns or Farm Outbuildings (SBO) |
dod_txt | Total destruction of building |
efscale | EF2 |
damage_dir | N/A |
windspeed | 131 |
injuries | 0.00 |
deaths | 0.00 |
lat | 41.34 |
lon | -92.00 |
office | DVN |
image | |
gps_horiz_accuracy | |
qc | Y |
dod | 8.00 |
surveytype | |
comments | Outbuildings destroyed |
TBH I think it was just a combination of laziness and not caring. They saw what was very obviously violent damage, but didn't want to have to go through the necessary process to go above EF3 (calling in a QRT) so they just came up with some half-baked excuse along the lines of "Well we saw some potentially violent damage but couldn't get to it, EF3 case closed".RE; Robinson: though Lincoln probably crudded the bed in this case, I'd wager CRH might have been involved too (CRH was apparently also responsible for conservative ratings in Rochelle and Mayfield)
Meanwhile...
Which would be 1 more than the 1974 Super Outbreak. Holy Moly...
NWS Memphis just put out its story map on this event. They are saying we now sit at 154 total tornadoes nationwide:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b081d8c52514b73a83f194c794380ae
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pretty incredible stuff.
though i do find this interesting - this graphic suggests that the storm prediction center's official records indicate 125 tornadoes during the 12z - 12z period. in contrast, wikipedia & supporting sources indicate & list 120. i did some minor digging and discovered no tornadoes on december 14 or december 16, so all of the 125 would have had to occur on december 15. the spc's online database here - which it suggests contains *finalized* data up thru dec 31, 2021 - even lists 119 tornadoes. the difference is somewhat negligible but i am curious as to what the correct count is.
I thought that campground sounded familiar. That was the same outbreak that produced the Coal City, IL EF3 right?I didn't realize this until reading through NWS Chicago's summary page today...but apparently the Woodhaven Lakes campground near Amboy and Sublette, IL was hit by an EF2 on March 31...same as they were on June 22, 2015 which was one of the many "almost" tornado catches (aside from complete busts) that defined my chase career until Keota...this video frame grab is looking right at where it was, inside the wall of rain.
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I thought that campground sounded familiar. That was the same outbreak that produced the Coal City, IL EF3 right?