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Severe Weather Threat June 15-23

slenker said:
I don't think I've seen this picture. Is this actually Spiritwood? If so, that's substantially higher end damage than I expected...
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Yes, it’s been circulating around today and must have been recently released.
 
AJS said:
I’m not even trying to sound hyperbolic, but that is genuinely some of the worst vehicle damage I have ever seen.
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Stratton will forever have done the worst vehicle damage ever recorded, outside of that one tornado that granulated an entire truck
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When I started this thread in the days leading up to this tornado event, I was not expecting what the tornadoes did
 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
@TH2002 new EF5 candidate just dropped :eek::eek::eek:
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Without knowing the whole extent of the contextual damage (scouring? debarking? wind rowing? etc.) I'm not going to say it's an EF5 candidate.

El Reno '13 is a perfect example of this. 295+ mph readings in subvortices? Yes. Tremendous vehicle damage? Yes. But all the other damage was AT BEST, low end EF4.

But like I said after Matador, it's not really debatable that vehicle damage of this caliber is typically only seen in violent (EF4-EF5) tornadoes.
 
TH2002 said:
Without knowing the whole extent of the contextual damage (scouring? debarking? wind rowing? etc.) I'm not going to say it's an EF5 candidate.

El Reno '13 is a perfect example of this. 295+ mph readings in subvortices? Yes. Tremendous vehicle damage? Yes. But all the other damage was AT BEST, low end EF4.

But like I said after Matador, it's not really debatable that vehicle damage of this caliber is typically only seen in violent (EF4-EF5) tornadoes.
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This, and before I personally would put this as a potential EF5 candidate, I’d want to see what the surrounding ground would have looked like before the tornado as well. If it’s already somewhat of a barren field before the tornado, then the ground scarring is definitely going to look more intense than it actually was. It looks bad in those images, but what were those fields looking like before the tornado hit?
 
TH2002 said:
Without knowing the whole extent of the contextual damage (scouring? debarking? wind rowing? etc.) I'm not going to say it's an EF5 candidate.

El Reno '13 is a perfect example of this. 295+ mph readings in subvortices? Yes. Tremendous vehicle damage? Yes. But all the other damage was AT BEST, low end EF4.

But like I said after Matador, it's not really debatable that vehicle damage of this caliber is typically only seen in violent (EF4-EF5) tornadoes.
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I would say it would at least take a high-end EF4 tornado to do that type of vehicle damage and vegetation damage.
 
Shakespeare 2016 said:
I would say it would at least take a high-end EF4 tornado to do that type of vehicle damage and vegetation damage.
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It really depends; I've heard the truck in the photo was rusted to god knows prior to the tornado (which does seem somewhat true looking at that license plate); rust can severely compromise a vehicle's structural integrity if it's bad enough.
 
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