Tanner
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Okay, which home is that from?
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tornado examiner
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If they can't find at least high ef4 damage with all these BENT bolts ima be confused...surely some of these have to be well built if they have good anchoring like that and are still getting ripped away with enough force to flatten bolts sideways.
Don't know, but it was from this video.
This damage is absolutely unfathomable. We really, really do have an EF5 candidate.
Tanner
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I'm sure the specialists surveying will rate it accordingly. Still incredibly harrowing.
NWS Des Moines is actually pretty good and fair when it comes to surveying so it'll certainly be at least a high-end EF4.
They rated Winterset an EF4 and that was barely EF4 imo, unless there's damage that I haven't seen from that.
tornado examiner
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Compared to all the other EF5 candidates where does greenfield stand?
tornado examiner
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No it was just one home that got flattened and partially swept away. Good anchoring but weak contextual damage relatively...
Not sure what the others exactly are, but it's certainly up there.
Combine the damage we've already observed with the narrow size of the tornado, the forward speed, the DOW readings as it was in town, and the TDS height, and you get a very good idea of the tornado's intensity and possible damage intensity. I'm aware that the DOW windspeeds and TDS mean nothing in the surveying aspect but it does put into context how incredibly powerful this tornado was, and how well constructed the homes may have been.
tornado examiner
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Id say its above rolling fork and Mayfield personally
Extreme damage on farmsteads SW of Greenfield via FEMA CAP.
Oh without a doubt. Mayfield certainly had EF5 intensity IMO (albeit probably just barely?), and imo Rolling Fork wasn't an EF5, just a very high end EF4. This, however, has damage comparable to exclusively EF5 tornadoes, which, again, was only done in a few seconds.
...Yeah that's an EF5. I'm not gonna hide my thoughts.
Link to images here: http://fema-cap-imagery.s3-website-...2024/Source/24-1-5261/Sortie_7_AerialOblique/
This damage is extremely high end.
This damage is extremely high end.
tornado examiner
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If an anchore bolt is bent like that...does it indicate that the home tried to hold on for as long as possible before getting violently torn away? Which may indicate better construction quality.
SmokeEater
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Thanks for posting that, was going to correct my earlier post but didn't get a chance to yet.Sorry if this has been posted and I missed it. The woman killed north of Corning was not a chaser, she was on her way home from work at Southwest Iowa Egg Coop.
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Not sure, but I assume that the bolt would be bent after the home gets lifted. I'd have to look into the mechanics of how anchor bolts get bent, because it's either the sheer intensity of the winds, or the house getting ripped off of them.
Tempestas Tonitrua
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Wow. Especially wow at that first picture. Looks like a little clean up being done in the second picture, how are swept away homes that have already been cleaned up factored into the survey process?
