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Severe WX Severe Weather Threat 3/14-3/16

I must say, this is the kind of application of the EF scale I think is accurate, but would also eliminate a large amount of issues with the current scale. You can just about nitpick any completely destroyed house DI down to 165mph (or lower) based on any number of flaws in construction, as we have seen offices do in the past. Yet some tornadoes are clearly violent, based on the context and fashion of the damage. Little Rock have done in a great job in identifying the clearly violent nature of the tornado, and rating it to the original intended use of the EF scale (I.e. home of typical construction completely slabbed should be rated high end EF4)
 
UK_EF4 said:
I must say, this is the kind of application of the EF scale I think is accurate, but would also eliminate a large amount of issues with the current scale. You can just about nitpick any completely destroyed house DI down to 165mph (or lower) based on any number of flaws in construction, as we have seen offices do in the past. Yet some tornadoes are clearly violent, based on the context and fashion of the damage. Little Rock have done in a great job in identifying the clearly violent nature of the tornado, and rating it to the original intended use of the EF scale (I.e. home of typical construction completely slabbed should be rated high end EF4)
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I agree, honestly it seems that tornado ratings as a whole since 2024 have been accurate so far, and I’ve really had no issues with a single one them to date since then.
 
The fact they went this high on the preliminary rating tells me the team there didn't want feedback from the higher ups at the NWS and felt confident in their abilities to use the scale as it was written. This feels like a major win, and a shift away from the ASCE towards science. Major freaking props to NWS Little Rock.
 
jiharris0220 said:
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That’s incredible too, because if it takes a tornado like Moore 2013 to get a prelim HE EF4, literally as violent and nasty as it gets, then they gotta be really impressed with this tornado. Which doesn’t surprise me after seeing that video from above, which is what I was referring to in a post I made in another thread. That is one incredibly violent stovepipe and on the surface certainly deserves to be rated as highly as it is.
 
Grand Poo Bah said:
The fact they went this high on the preliminary rating tells me the team there didn't want feedback from the higher ups at the NWS and felt confident in their abilities to use the scale as it was written. This feels like a major win, and a shift away from the ASCE towards science. Major freaking props to NWS Little Rock.
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THIS IS A MASSIVE W. Nws Arkansas instantly shooting up on my list as great survoyers.
 
slenker said:
That’s incredible too, because if it takes a tornado like Moore 2013 to get a prelim HE EF4, literally as violent and nasty as it gets, then they gotta be really impressed with this tornado. Which doesn’t surprise me after seeing that video from above, which is what I was referring to in a post I made in another thread. That is one incredibly violent stovepipe and on the surface certainly deserves to be rated as highly as it is.
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Really curious to see how the rest of the survey goes. That was one of the longer tracked storms of the day so there could be
some damage left not surveyed still.
 
In terms of 2024, Greenfield and Barnsdale were EF5s, and Minden/harlan, Sulphur, and Westmoreland were EF4s, and you absolutely cannot change my mind. In 2007 this wouldn't even be an unpopular opinion. It wasn't until 2014 the criteria people are using now to say the ratings are fine changed.

We can always debate further in the other thread.
 
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