Yes, I also have the habit to hoard tornado videos also damage pictures.(around 15000 at this time) I made a list on youtube of 1200+ best tornado videos list and I hoard most of them.A lot of videos will be lost, especially home videos, if they are not saved now.
Once the Tupelo tornado dissipated, that same supercell quickly dropped another tornado near the Alabama state line that Killed 4 in Red Bay Alabama and 4 more just Northwest of Russellville. That part of Alabama just is a magnet for violent tornadoes.
I'm pretty sure that Red Bay, AL F3 is actually the Tupelo, MS tornado, as the damage gaps between the 2 aren't that large and it's likely that the tornado continued into Alabama before dissipating, similar to Smithville and many other Dixie events. Locomusic01 had a post that demonstrated the link between Tupelo and Red Bay once; hopefully he can back me up here.
I noticed that the school damages made by Moore tornado were among one of the strongest ever, much severe than Joplin High School. Both Plaza Towers Elementary School and Briarwood Elementary School were rated 190mph,highest DOD of JHSH DI.When comparing Joplin and Moore, I would at least say that Moore produced much more impressive ground scouring. But with that said, Joplin did produce some notable ground scouring as well. It's not quite as dramatic as other examples of this phenomenon, but any tornado that can remove grass from lawns is extremely intense. These were from near the high school.
Yeah Moore completely swept away two well-built schools. It also hit a major hospital head on with its core, leaving it in ruins. Joplin's core just missed St. John's Hospital, still the hospital had to be demolished anyways. Moore definitely produced more intense ground scouring.
I hadn’t heard that but it is certainly possible.
Wow I've never seen most of those photos before, the ground scouring from the Moore tornado (especially in Celestial Acres) really does rival that of Jarrell. Granulation of debris also looks pretty intense though not as impressive as Joplin.Yup, Moore 2013 produced the most intense scouring occurring within a built up urban/suburban area that I've ever seen. Definitely reminiscent of Jarrell.
For the pavement scouring in the Wal-Mart parking lot, I think what happened was streetlights were yanked out and took chunks of the pavement with it, not sure I'd call that scouring.
That and the wood impaled through the concrete curb have been the subject of debate for a while now. Very similar to how the Rainsville tornado pulled up a stone pillar at one residence, taking out a chunk of foundation and some argued that the foundation was "scoured".
You can see the cracks in the curb where the wood is through, I don't buy the PVC pipe stuff.
Unless tornadoes play target practice, I too highy doubt the wood just so happened to end up in a PVC drainage culvert.
Actually, they are separate ones, there's one home video showed the extremely tiny noodle-like landspout briefly lifted/obsecured by rain curtain mintues before the cone-shaped funnel, the actual Jarrell itself dropped down.Seem like everybody even NWS and NCDC listed them as one single tornado
Well, cell-merging is a common phenomenon, and I remember one paper shows 64％ cells tend to get stronger with at least one other cell.Cell-merging could feed in more environmental vortices, thus making a high efficient utilization of low-mid level wind shear to the dominat storm.Other finding shows mother storm's Streamwise Vorticitiy Current's getting evident after merging with other storm, which was the lead precursor of tornadoes.
Overall, I'd say Moore 2013 is more intense then Joplin due to the much more pronouncing ground scouring, that said, it only killed 23 people. Joplin was the first tornado since 1953 to kill 100+ people. Ultimately, neither of these tornadoes hold a candle to events like Jarrell or Smithville, obviously.
The low fatality of Moore may due to its highly visble condensation funnel, a slower movement and narrower width, I can't imagine what will happen if a rain-wrapped, slow moving wedge of moore's strength moves directly into the urban area.
