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Significant Tornado Events - Global Edition
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I did some searching on Bilibili and found the damage survey of the Dongming tornado on 5 July last year. It was rated EF3. 
This path and rating was made by one of my friend who is a high school student so it's not official. Though we fully expected that official rating could coming in next few weeks and an EF3 rating is very much expected.
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Thank you! Do you know any ratings from tornadoes last year that you are expecting? (Juancheng, Dongping, Yuncheng, Wuzhou, Guangzhou)
Based on this pic published last week, we only know there were 3 EF3 rating and 8 EF2 rating tornados last year. And it appears that Guangzhou and wuzhou tornado was rated EF2. Dongming was most likely EF3 and at least one other tornado from 7/5 outbreak also rated EF3. Detailed information need to wait for upcoming annual report.
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It’s quite approx since each category of the IF scale doesn’t have specific starting and ending points in windspeed but it roughly looks like this:
T0/1 = IF0
T1/2 = IF0.5
T2/3 = IF1
T3/4 = IF1.5
T4/5 = IF2
T5/6 = IF2.5
T6/7 = IF3
T8/9 = IF4
T10/11 = IF5
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This table in the IF Scale Document shows the scale compared to other scales 
Apologies if you already have found this document, but just in case...
Here is the damage survey for that tornado.
By far the most notable British tornado since at least 1954, in my opinion.
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If it's useful here's some drone footage that covers the entire path of the tornado: Jersey drone footage
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The first deadly tornado in Europe this year just happened in Spain. It struck an agricultural warehouse, causing it to collapse, killing 3 workers. No rating has been applied yet but it looks in the IF2-IF2.5 range 
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In December, I embarked on a project to collect images and map the path of the 2005 Birmingham IF3. The map is coming along nicely, albeit gradually, however, I can share with you all now, in what I believe to be chronological order, every still image of the tornado in progress from 14:36-14:59 BST:
Photo 1, taken at approx. 14:36 in its initial phases. Strength IF0-0.5.
Image 2, taken approx. 2:38 from Moseley. Tornado is at approx IF1.5 intensity, with brief instances of IF2 damage.
Image 3, probably the best known image of the tornado, taken at around the same time as image 2 by Ian Dunsford at his office in 261 Stratford Road as the tornado approached his location. I used AI to upscale this image for better quality.
Image 4 is taken at the same location on a lower floor at around 2:41PM. The tornado is clearly showing multiple vortices as it approaches Balsall Heath, solidly reaching IF2 intensity. The tornado reaches peak intensity of IF3 briefly at around 2:42.
Image 5: Can’t find a location, I assume was taken at around 2:45 as the tornado is weakening slightly- IF1.5-2- likely due to a cell merger to the east. The tornado has lost its condensation funnel(s) at this point, and will remain invisible for the next few minutes.
Image 6, 7, 8- all taken from the City Center at ~2:46-2:52 as the tornado makes its closest pass approx 1.5 miles E. Narrowly misses St Andrew’s Stadium as it falls to IF0.5-1 intensity
Image 9, taken at around 2:55, shows us the backside of the tornado as it becomes rainwrapped, approaching StarCity and the M6. Very weak, IF0.5.
Image 10, taken as the tornado is dissipating over Erdington, probably 2:58-3:00.
Obligatory these images are NOT mine, I found them through intense internet archive scouring. Credit where credit is due, it is important to preserve these images. Please note that the timestamps are educated estimates based on - The tornado’s derived timings based on images/videos that ARE timestamped.
Thanks for reading, thought I’d do something big with my first post here.
Photo 1, taken at approx. 14:36 in its initial phases. Strength IF0-0.5.
Image 2, taken approx. 2:38 from Moseley. Tornado is at approx IF1.5 intensity, with brief instances of IF2 damage.
Image 3, probably the best known image of the tornado, taken at around the same time as image 2 by Ian Dunsford at his office in 261 Stratford Road as the tornado approached his location. I used AI to upscale this image for better quality.
Image 4 is taken at the same location on a lower floor at around 2:41PM. The tornado is clearly showing multiple vortices as it approaches Balsall Heath, solidly reaching IF2 intensity. The tornado reaches peak intensity of IF3 briefly at around 2:42.
Image 5: Can’t find a location, I assume was taken at around 2:45 as the tornado is weakening slightly- IF1.5-2- likely due to a cell merger to the east. The tornado has lost its condensation funnel(s) at this point, and will remain invisible for the next few minutes.
Image 6, 7, 8- all taken from the City Center at ~2:46-2:52 as the tornado makes its closest pass approx 1.5 miles E. Narrowly misses St Andrew’s Stadium as it falls to IF0.5-1 intensity
Image 9, taken at around 2:55, shows us the backside of the tornado as it becomes rainwrapped, approaching StarCity and the M6. Very weak, IF0.5.
Image 10, taken as the tornado is dissipating over Erdington, probably 2:58-3:00.
Obligatory these images are NOT mine, I found them through intense internet archive scouring. Credit where credit is due, it is important to preserve these images. Please note that the timestamps are educated estimates based on - The tornado’s derived timings based on images/videos that ARE timestamped.
Thanks for reading, thought I’d do something big with my first post here.
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Is this a picture of the tornado? I couldn't tell if the media just used it because they needed a picture for their story, or if it was actually a photo of it.
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That is an image taken at ~2:19 (TORRO says 2:29 in a paper but that doesn’t make sense with the storm’s movement speed) from Hopwood Park services, a brief, separate IF0, produced by the same parent supercell
Some of these (images 1 and 4 in particular) look like video screenshots. Is that correct? If so, I’d love to find the original footage…
Also, welcome to TalkWeather!
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Thank you! Now that you mention it, yes they do look like they’re from videos. I don’t think they are? I’ve got a collection of videos of it as well, but none show these.
By chance, did you make this video?
There are some clips of the tornado in here that I haven't seen anywhere else - and idk where the original uploader got the raw footage.
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There is also this video, which is more in depth than the one you linked that has some footage that I havent seen before: