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

[Wind Driven Coconut]

Don't forget it would need to be built  above a standard of construction that apparently is almost never seen anyway.

Because some of the people involved in making EF scale believed houses shouldn't be EF5 and this unscientific personal whim is apparently more authoritative that Fujita's prescription of a six step scale to be used with houses.

This is my entire problem with the scale. Why have a 6 step scale if the highest rating is virtually unobtainable?

 

[keithGA]

I'd like to point out that only one of these anchor bolts has washers on them. This either means that, well, only some of them had them to begin with, or the tornado was able to rip one of them off of one of the bolts.

The important washers would be on the other side of the baseplate, under the nut...and they are gone.

 

[Austin Dawg]

Another Dane County warning, though I'm still out of the polygon, but am moving to the basement. It looks like this line is just going to spin as it moves into the area. The cats will hate me, but so it goes.

Watch yourself—you're south of where my late father used to live near Montello. I really miss going up there to visit Wisconsin.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

Don't forget it would need to be built  above a standard of construction that apparently is almost never seen anyway.

Because some of the people involved in making EF scale believed houses shouldn't be EF5 and this unscientific personal whim is apparently more authoritative that Fujita's prescription of a six step scale to be used with houses.

I understand what your saying it just seems like there is way too much scrutiny handing out an EF5 as you said. Sometimes I tend to get the attitude that high-end EF4 is good enough and that is because of the absurd standards to get an EF5 rating.

Edit...Yesterday was also the 11 year anniversary since the last time a tornado was rated EF5.

 

[JBishopwx]

 

[A Guy]

I understand what your saying it just seems like there is way too much scrutiny handing out an EF5 as you said. Sometimes I tend to get the attitude that high-end EF4 is good enough and that is because of the absurd standards to get an EF5 rating.

Edit...Yesterday was also the 11 year anniversary since the last time a tornado was rated EF5.

Scrutiny's fine if it's considered and balanced.

The issue is that they actually moved the goalposts based on personal opinions that should have been rejected.

 

[warneagle]

Confirmed tornado near Wilton, IA. Should be crossing I-80 just west of Davenport in a few minutes.

 

[A Guy]

Look on the ABC 3340 Weather Blog & go back to 03-04 Apr, Bill Murray. This was during the 50 anny Superoutbreak discussion. The warning actually stated 120 mph but the tornado actually moved 113.

You're going to have to link it. I can find a rather non-authoritative mention of 120.

 

[warneagle]

Ugh. These are tough to look at.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

How wide was this tornado? I have heard from others on Twitter that are saying it was narrow.

 

[Clancy]

Ugh. These are tough to look at.

It'd literally be unrecognizable if not for the picture. The only thing that looks remotely the same is the remnants of the white house and that green light pole that's bent in the 2nd shot.

 

[jiharris0220]

 

[Clancy]

Multiple potentially tornadic storms ongoing in AR.

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

You're going to have to link it. I can find a rather non-authoritative mention of 120.

Here is where I first saw it. It’s a recollection from Bill Murray (not THAT Bill Murray lol) on the 4/3/74 outbreak. He co-hosts weather brains with James Spann. This seems to be the storm itself and not the tornado.

Just before 10 p.m., the announcers at WFMH were broadcasting from their transmitter, observing the storm to their northwest. They read a bulletin from the Weather Service that stated that the storm over Marion County was moving at over 120 mph! I had always heard that the faster the storm was moving, the more severe it must be. Moving at double anything I had ever heard of.

 

[A Guy]

Here is where I first saw it. It’s a recollection from Bill Murray (not THAT Bill Murray lol) on the 4/3/74 outbreak. He co-hosts weather brains with James Spann. This seems to be the storm itself and the tornado.

Just before 10 p.m., the announcers at WFMH were broadcasting from their transmitter, observing the storm to their northwest. They read a bulletin from the Weather Service that stated that the storm over Marion County was moving at over 120 mph! I had always heard that the faster the storm was moving, the more severe it must be. Moving at double anything I had ever heard of.

That's what I could find. And it sounds iffy - there's no other evidence I heard of saying the Guin tornado (the only one in Marion County) moved that fast.

 

[TheSuckZone]

Any word on if that tanker truck that Leeroy Jenkins'd that tornado has landed yet?

 

[UncleJuJu98]

Is that where the video of that guy driving into the tornado was from

 

[jiharris0220]

 

[Tempestas Tonitrua]

That's what I could find. And it sounds iffy - there's no other evidence I heard of saying the Guin tornado (the only one in Marion County) moved that fast.

Yeah - definitely not the tornado. I remember Tornado Talk’s review mentioning Guin moving at one point around 45 MPH.

 

[A Guy]

Moving to more current matters, is there anything on the ground with this tangle of warnings in Wisconsin?