Yeah, those two are naturally interesting to me since they were in Germany, but I think the basis for assigning "official" ratings to storms from the 18th century is questionable at best. I'll make sure to share my translation of Genzmer's report once it's done; even if it's not a great basis for an official rating, it's one of the first scientific surveys of tornado damage.
The 103mile path seems reasonable to me which makes it the third longest path tornado on that day. But there was a post on another thread mentioned that Cordova was also likely two sperate tornado which makes Enterprise tornado the longest path on that day. But who knows whether Enterprise also quickly lifted in its path. It's hard to know If a tornado was entirely continues without full aerial damage shoto along entire path and aerial shoto just take a much more important role in damage survey pretty recently.
What is the largest tornado outbreak in Chinese history?
This one is probably just the largest one in Chinese history. Actually northeast China has some similar geographic conditions like Great Plain and Pampas in South America.
China's records are relatively incomplete. If we only discuss the intensity and quantity, I think this tornado outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak in China. In addition, a tornado outbreak in Zhejiang on March 26, 1967 may also have many tornadoes. It is said that one tornado pulled up a power tower, while another tornado destroyed a large number of houses in a village House.
I personally will have to disagree with you. In washington, there were actually quite a lot of “ Plausible EF5 “ damage indicators. the Debarking of Trees was widespread and i know it could have been done by debris, shrubs trees and bushes were all debarked in washington. Cars were mangled and thrown, but not like some of the famous Vehicle damage EF5s. but granulation, wind rowing, and completely swept away homes were extremely evident. and i have seen some with su flooring being ripped. forgot where i found the images but i did see them. but anyway i feel like Very high end EF4 was the right call because i saw barely any scouring so EF4 was the correct call, but it was very borderline
I personally will have to disagree with you. In washington, there were actually quite a lot of “ Plausible EF5 “ damage indicators. the Debarking of Trees was widespread and i know it could have been done by debris, shrubs trees and bushes were all debarked in washington. Cars were mangled and thrown, but not like some of the famous Vehicle damage EF5s. but granulation, wind rowing, and completely swept away homes were extremely evident. and i have seen some with su flooring being ripped. forgot where i found the images but i did see them. but anyway i feel like Very high end EF4 was the right call because i saw barely any scouring so EF4 was the correct call, but it was very borderline
The question I have mainly about two points: the first one was lack of very impressive contexual damage in the town, especially compared to those famous EF5 level tornados and even some EF4 level tornados. The second one was I havent seen close ground view showing appropriate anchor bolts yet, including several houses with subfloor being ripped. There is a possibility some of them may had anchor bolts but just I couldn't find pics showing these construction details.
Mobile homes tend to be much weaker, and are much more susceptible to being destroyed and granulated than regular homes. However, there are some photos that I have come across which depict high-end tornado damage from both cases.
That article was interesting, it does make me wonder about quite few other VLT tornadoes of the past couple decades (Yazoo City, MS 2010 and Clinton, AR 2008) and some of the other VLTs from 4//27/11 (Cordova, Enterprise and Shoal Creek) and if they were really a single tornado or actually parts of a family of wedges that were cycled quickly in succession, one after the other. Of course, it might be hard to tell when one tornado ends and the other begins, especially if over remote and/or inaccessible terrain or if going through rural areas with very few people to witness anything.
I’ve often wondered about that for years. The NWS Huntsville Survey says this:
