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Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

Well. The tornadoes were incredible! That’s for sure!
 
Oh my lord, just found this DI from the Grinnell survey:
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This is a 112 mph EF2 DI with zero comment on how the house disappeared and instead chose to focus on damage to neighboring homes. This is one of the worst surveys I’ve ever seen.
Oh, and it gets a lot better! Here’s a 113 mph EF2 DI to the north they just added:
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Is it safe to say Goodland is the most unreliable NWS office when it comes to ratings?


Me holding in my feelings about this survey like:

Jim Carrey Reaction GIF
 
I have a brief clip from Morganfield from Weatherwise during the Morganfield TOR warning;
 
I'll just say it's pretty wild how some of the strongest EF5 candidates of the last few years were mostly rated EF3. The high end EF4 rating is reserved for storms that actually deserve that exact rating. Anything stronger, and it's rated lower. Way lower.
 
Yeah dude. Imagine rebuilding everything and it could all be wiped away again. I’d need counseling lol

Greensburg was actually almost hit again the very next day (which had a high risk in Kansas that included the Greensburg area) and on May 23, 2008.
 
And don’t forget Moore. Hit twice by ef5. That was crazy to watch in 2013..

I remember reading about a guy living in or near Moore whose house was damaged in the October 1998 F2, damaged again in the May 3, 1999 F5 (after which he had a concrete safe room installed), then destroyed (and the safe room saved his life) in the May 8, 2003 F4. I would hope he'd have gotten the h*** out of there by 2013.
 
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