Which is why you must never issue a tornado warning on April fool's day. And if it is warranted TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.That's a likely possibility. I do note no one on that FB thread has called out the original poster on their BS yet. How would they respond?
That is very high end F4 level damage, Possibly F5
It's hard to say with any level of certainty since ratings for tornadoes in that part of the world are extremely unreliable and the construction quality of most buildings is also extremely poor, but I will say the complete debarking of trees in the first photo definitely points to a higher end event. It is listed as an F4 on the Tornado Archive which seems very much warranted.
Was this the same one that damaged a concrete school?
That is what is so interesting about these international tornadoes, they have a mythical aura around them, some that we must figure out
feel free to ask questions or requests to zoom in on any tracks, also FYI I have old used google earths landsat display because the Landsat website is very confusing plus I have to make a special account which is annoying but higher res imagery would be cool to see
Yes I know this paper I've read it a few times and once I reach it on my to-do list I'll use its data more thoroughly
however, I do not have access to the Science Direct version since it is paywalled but apparently supplementary data was put into the Science Direct version
Do you think this one was a continuous path? I have read/translated the Kerounos report and it's hard to tell. They seem to have been working under the assumption it was one tornado rather than a family and so have connected the damage locations up as such, without considering the possibility of a tornado family and straight-line winds. The ESWD cites a Belgian website who looked at the NW end the track, but say they also received testimony and photographs from Dutch storm chasers who claimed the tornado that actually hit Bihucourt formed only shortly before the village. The ESWD now lists the tornado as five tornadoes with path lengths of 45, 11, 30, 15 and 15 km respectively. But I'm not sure if that leaves gaps, and aside from the language barrier I don't think the documentation sufficiently discerning to tell.
To be honest, I've been a little bit skeptical about the original path length, and didn't know it had since been split up into five separate tornadoes, Makes sense though. I used Google maps to track the path through the different villages it hit, and there were a lot of long gaps where it hit nothing but fields and caused no damage, leaving plenty of areas for breaks in the damage path. If ESWD says it was five, I believe them.
