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Severe Weather Threat 5/19-5/22/2024

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keithGA said:
It will be interesting to see what the survey determines the width of the tornado was. The funnel itself was rather compact, but the damaging wind field was huge.

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It'll likely end up being fairly wide. As I've pointed out before, the width of the condensation funnel of the Moore tornado was 270 metres when the damage path was at its maximum width of 1900 metres. That's a funnel-to-wind ratio of 0.14.

That's also why I take eyeball estimates from people filming with a lot of salt now. They're not seeing the boundary of the EF0 winds.
 
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I just realized a really interesting coincidence.
The Greensburg EF5 ended what was at the time the longest F5/EF5 drought, the day after the anniversary of the previous F5/EF5, which was in Moore.
The Greenfield tornado occurred on the day after the anniversary of the previous F5/EF5, which was also in Moore.
Both of these towns have "Green" at the start of the name.
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It is quite a coincidence.
 
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OHWX97 said:
Not necessarily a photograph, but a violent tornado that struck Great Bend, Kansas on November 10, 1915 transported a check 210 miles, landing near Palmyra, Nebraska.

https://rcs.ou.edu/~jsnow/Research/Debris/BAMS.html
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Yeah, I feel like a photograph and a piece of paper of some sort are pretty similar, so I guess anything that's paper.
How strong was that tornado, again?
 
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Maxis_s said:
What's the record for a tornado lofting a photograph again?
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There was a photograph from Phil Campbell that was found in Lenoir City TN, 219 miles. The paper mentioning this says that's the longest confirmed debris trajectory from any tornado.

journals.ametsoc.org

Tornado Debris Characteristics And Trajectories During The 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak As Determined Using Social Media Data

Using publicly available information gleaned from over 1700 found-and-returned objects on the “Pictures and Documents found after the 27 April 2011 Tornadoes” Facebook page, the authors have created a database of 934 objects lofted by at least 15 different tornadoes during the 27 April 2011...
journals.ametsoc.org journals.ametsoc.org
 
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There was a photograph from Phil Campbell that was found in Lenoir City TN, 219 miles. The paper mentioning this says that's the longest confirmed debris trajectory from any tornado.
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Great timing!! The Andover KS 1991 tornado carried paper debris for more than 125 miles just north of Topeka, KS. That is when I was a boy living in Emporria.
 
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