Couple other photos from this event:One last Upper Midwest event I'd like to talk about for now: the April 30, 1936 Iowa-Minnesota tornado outbreak. It has been mentioned in this thread before but I'll elaborate more on the event. The first notable event of this outbreak was the Lake Okoboji IA F4. Cottages and homes along the lake were swept away or completely leveled. This tornado continued through the countryside leveling entire farms before moving through (and dissipating in) Terrace Park where more homes were destroyed. The contextual damage this tornado produced was rather impressive with trees being heavily debarked, cars being thrown up to 330 yards with one Plymouth car being wrapped around a tree, scouring occurred as "two places appeared as if swept by a huge broom. Oats and shelled corn mixed with mud was plastered everywhere." Two people were killed by this tornado.
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2 hours later a much larger and longer-tracked event touched down on the south edge of Estherville IA. 430 ft of railroad track on a bridge in the southern half of Estherville was torn up before this tornado moved into rural areas and begin to rapidly intensify. In the rural areas of Emmet County IA the tornado was extremely violent. Entire farms were swept away with debris being scattered over a wide area, trees were stripped of all but the largest branches and debarked, dirt inches deep was plastered against the walls of one farmhouse, mattresses were carried up to a mile and a half, and cars were thrown. The storm started to weaken as it entered Martin County MN but was still intense enough to level farms including ones that were damaged by another tornado/downburst complex that passed through the county earlier. The tornado dissipated into a downburst complex as it approached Blue Earth MN. 2 people were killed in MN and over 61 were injured in both MN/IA.
I do wonder if one of the F4s from this event reached F5 intensity.Couple other photos from this event:
Joplin
Yep. i agree Joplin was by far the most memorable tornado of the 2011 year and possibly 2010 era
Leedey was basically if Jarrell went through a town.So, I don't remember if I ever posted this before (I know, that seems to be a running theme here), but Oklahoma was visited by a massive, extremely violent tornado in the spring of 1947. And no, not Woodward. The next month, on May 31, a large section of the town of Leedey was virtually obliterated by a tornado that - according to several people who witnessed both - was actually even more intense than Woodward. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to agree with that, but it's certainly in the same conversation:
First, we'll start with something unusual for that time period: a sequence of photos showing the early stages + strengthening of the tornado itself.
The first few homes it encountered were almost entirely flattened. Nearby, an Oldsmobile was thrown into a tree and demolished:
Needless to say, things escalated rather swiftly from there. After blowing down the town's water tower, the tornado proceeded to absolutely obliterate home after home after home.
Two churches and a hotel were destroyed as well:
A number of vehicles were thrown great distances and crumpled into nearly unrecognizable balls, like this one-ton pickup that was parked not far from the Baptist church:
In some areas, the ground was reportedly scoured to a depth of a foot or more. Debris was granulated so badly in the core of the path one person remarked that "at least at Woodward there was debris left." By the time the tornado lifted, it had almost literally erased an entire swath right through the middle of Leedey:
Yeah, I posted stuff on this thing a while back but at least it's being resurrected in this thread. This thing was surprisingly well documented for the time.So, I don't remember if I ever posted this before (I know, that seems to be a running theme here), but Oklahoma was visited by a massive, extremely violent tornado in the spring of 1947. And no, not Woodward. The next month, on May 31, a large section of the town of Leedey was virtually obliterated by a tornado that - according to several people who witnessed both - was actually even more intense than Woodward. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to agree with that, but it's certainly in the same conversation:
First, we'll start with something unusual for that time period: a sequence of photos showing the early stages + strengthening of the tornado itself.
The first few homes it encountered were almost entirely flattened. Nearby, an Oldsmobile was thrown into a tree and demolished:
Needless to say, things escalated rather swiftly from there. After blowing down the town's water tower, the tornado proceeded to absolutely obliterate home after home after home.
Two churches and a hotel were destroyed as well:
A number of vehicles were thrown great distances and crumpled into nearly unrecognizable balls, like this one-ton pickup that was parked not far from the Baptist church:
In some areas, the ground was reportedly scoured to a depth of a foot or more. Debris was granulated so badly in the core of the path one person remarked that "at least at Woodward there was debris left." By the time the tornado lifted, it had almost literally erased an entire swath right through the middle of Leedey:
talkweather.com
In the 4th picture here the ground looks muddy and torn, possibly extreme ground scouring.Couple other photos from this event:
