Honestly, the Grand Blanc damage is much less severe than I was anticipating. It might not even meet the criteria for EF2.
I think it lofted enough lightweight debris to make it look really scary on CC. The thing about dual-pol is that when you see that dreaded blue dot, it could either be leaves and lightweight debris, or large parts of trees, vehicles, and buildings in the air, and still look the same.Weaker-spectrum tornadoes can wreck a lot of stuff if they go through a city, but substantial site-built structures resist them well enough that they usually don't cause fatalities/serious injuries if everyone is properly sheltered.
Yellow Springs is where the comedian Dave Chappelle livesThat one came dangerously close to Yellow Springs; my favorite small town in Ohio.
I’m also concerned about what this will bring to the Columbus metro.
Haha yeah when I lived in that area, I used to see him at the gym and at local bars every once in a while. Pretty much every Dayton area resident has a “I saw Dave Chapelle at so and so” story.Yellow Springs is where the comedian Dave Chappelle lives
...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
APPALACHIANS STATES/EASTERN U.S....
...SUMMARY...
Isolated strong to locally severe wind gusts will be possible today
from the Tennessee Valley and west slopes of the Appalachians to
western New England, the Mid-Atlantic Region, and portions of the
Carolinas.
...Tennessee Valley/Appalachians...
A well-organized northeast/southwest-oriented thunderstorm squall
line continues to progress generally eastward across northern
Alabama, eastern Tennessee as well as southeast Kentucky and
southern West Virginia as of late morning, largely paralleling an
eastward-moving cold front. Periodic strong or locally severe wind
gusts will remain a possibility across a broad portion of the region
today, but especially across the Tennessee Valley toward southern
Appalachians where somewhat stronger heating and destabilization are
expected coincident with the southern periphery of strong winds
aloft and weak height falls. Farther north, showers and cloud cover
will tend to remain prevalent across much of the pre-frontal warm
sector across the Northeast, although some clearing/weak
destabilization is possible later this afternoon immediately near
the front currently across the Upper Ohio Valley.
..Guyer/Bentley.. 02/28/2024
Reminds me kindve of the armory Mississippi tornado back on the night of the rolling fork tornado. So close and looked so bad. But only because it was so close. This was the ef3 armory tornado, super gnarly because of proximity to radarI think part of the reason the Grand Blanc tornado looked so scary on radar is its proximity to the radar site. At least on Level 3 data, those deep blues are more likely to show up with a tornado that's close to the radar.
Grand Blanc tornado has a preliminary rating of low-end EF2 (115mph). Calhoun County has preliminary rating of EF1.