It started like 5 minutes before it hit the Air Force base and ended very close to the munincipal airport ofter a failed occlusion. The path was not just 3 miles, probably upwards of 8-10 miles.
In 2026 fashion, not long track lol. Definitely good thing..
In this case, thats because it was so slow moving. The tornado was on the ground for like 45 minutes to an hour and moving 15 mph. If it was moving with average speed then no doubt it could've been a long tracker.
Generally it’s very tough to determine tree debarking from aerial imagery, and you really need ground level pics to confirm it. But yeah definitely grass scouring, although based on what I’ve seen so far, maybe not quite to the Moore 2013 degree I was comparing it to earlier. Right now I can say EF4 with confidence, but I’m not quite ready to call it a strong EF5 candidate yet. I’d need to see more photographic evidence and get more construction info before making a call like that. I may not have seen the most intense damage yet.
True. I thought it was moving at 25? Still slow but yeah.
You're far from being the only one. Tornado climatologist Tom Grazulis opened his tornado climatology tome Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991 with the following paragraph:
That wasn't the focus. I mean't the real show to be that scouring (if it is truly all scouring)
Clearly not from anyone with a lick of intelligence. There was a 10% CIG1 extending into N OK with a 5% CIG1 extending south of that. I don't think confidence was high enough in sustained storms to upgrade to a CIG2.
A lot of folks on twitter don't understand that SPC forecasters aren't issued crystal balls on their first day of work. They can make the best forecast in the world and the atmosphere will still do whatever it wants to do. If the SPC missed something yesterday they will take a look at it and review it and I'm sure no one knows when they missed more than those forecasters do. Joe Blow on twitter screaming at them probably isn't going to provide them with any new information about a forecast miss.
