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Severe Weather Threat 5/19-5/22/2024
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tornado examiner
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Ahem. "No EF5 this time." That's a better way of putting my thoughts.
Oh you're not seeing tornado examiner's posts? How pleasant for you lol.
Oh lol. Block list is a beautiful thing.
tornado examiner
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The "ignore" button is a thing.
tornado examiner
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And why are you even mad when mister buckeye is doing the exact same thing? Stating "This is not high end ef4 damage"
jiharris0220
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Well perhaps, but structures with non poured concrete sliders have been rated high before.
Of course, times have changed since then, but these two structures rated ef5 from the Phil Campbell tornado aren’t exactly what you would call a sturdy foundation.
The cinder blocks on the second photo are hollow, and I don’t even know what’s up with the right one. Weak looking structures definitely do have the chance of being highly rated.
But like I said earlier, regardless of what we think it’s the NWS surveyors call to make.
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The reason I say "aggregate" as high end EF4 is because when you combine the fact that essentially every structure in the direct path was leveled or swept away, the extensive tree debarking, the vehicle damage, wind rowing (which is some of the most impressive I've seen frankly), and other things like the wind turbines, you arrive at something that should be no less than 185-190 mph.
This is also factoring in the DOW measurements, which IMO should be a factor here because they were actually co-located with intense damage this time.
This is also factoring in the DOW measurements, which IMO should be a factor here because they were actually co-located with intense damage this time.
tornado examiner
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And then you have those who throw around "this is an ef5 candidate" and nobody complains...
Despite my opinion on DOW measurements being that they shouldn't count for a rating, I agree that they should at least be considered if they were measured while they impacted structures, since that's a direct correlation with damage being done.
jiharris0220
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Well, ok, safe to say I’ve had enough with a certain someone’s “Examinations” to these threads, the ignore button is quite a lovely thing to have.
Carbon tornado (northern of the pair of long trackers) prelim EF3.
tornado examiner
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I speak my mind in my own way and people throw a fit. This isn't nwschat its a public forum free for anybody to use. What the heck is y'alls problem? I'm not even being strictly offensive to anyone. You all keep saying that ef-ratings don't matter yet you continue to talk about them.
This one "only" moved at an average of about 53.3mph. What caused the tornado this cell produced near Des Moines to move so fast?
Tempestas Tonitrua
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My guess would be its proximity to the frontal boundary or it was in an area where it could take advantage of the best parameters to push it to that speed. And the tornado could have only moved at that speed for some of its life and slowed down to a more average speed as it tracked further out
Tempestas Tonitrua
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I think it’s your overall body of work bro…. Not just today
My feeling is this might take a long time to survey.
After taking a look over every damage photo and drone video I have been able to find of the Greenfield tornado damage, I have to parrot Andy and say this appears to be a 185-190 MPH type event. I do not think this one is going to make the cut for EF5, but it was clearly a very violent tornado, and this is easily the most intense damage we have seen so far this year. Anything less than 185 MPH will be a gross underestimate of this thing's true intensity.
It makes me curious what did the tornadoes in say Moore and Joplin do that this one didn't?
