Significant Tornado Events

[Lake Martin EF4]

Terrifying image of the Linwood EF4:

Source (+story)

 

[andyhb]

25th anniversary of the 4/8/1998 Oak Grove/Rock Creek/Pleasant Grove F5 today, which was sort of the modern benchmark since 1974 for how bad it could get in Alabama prior to 2011.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

VERY LONG TRACK TORNADOES PRE-2000

docs.google.com

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

I had a whole post written up about how that Ruskin Heights photo with the two funnels on each side of the charcoal black stovepipe was actually from a different Kansas tornado but then I checked the NWS article and it is indeed from the Kansas section of the Ruskin Heights path. Lol

 

[locomusic01]

VERY LONG TRACK TORNADOES PRE-2000

docs.google.com

Is this yours? Trying to work out whether old-timey events were one tornado or a family can be kind of a nightmare, but I've always thought it'd be a fun project. VLT tornadoes are fascinating and we don't really have much reliable information on most of them.

Edit: Also, my brain is fried today and I confused Grinnell w/Pomeroy. Took me entirely too long to figure out why the path looked so much different from mine lol

Edit 2: Actually, on second thought, the track is really quite similar aside from the place names + overall length.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Is this yours? Trying to work out whether old-timey events were one tornado or a family can be kind of a nightmare, but I've always thought it'd be a fun project. VLT tornadoes are fascinating and we don't really have much reliable information on most of them.

Edit: Also, my brain is fried today and I confused Grinnell w/Pomeroy. Took me entirely too long to figure out why the path looked so much different from mine lol

Edit 2: Actually, on second thought, the track is really quite similar aside from the place names + overall length.

It is indeed mine lmao

 

[Ivanthetornadoenthusiast]

Are there any photos of the homes that "literally vanished" from the Dunlap tornado #2 a.k.a. the Sunnyside Subdivision tornado

 

[locomusic01]

Are there any photos of the homes that "literally vanished" from the Dunlap tornado #2 a.k.a. the Sunnyside Subdivision tornado

Don't have many good photos handy, but:

Also gonna use this as an excuse to repost some other photos from Sunnyside because they're freakin' incredible.

 

[locomusic01]

Overlooked a folder earlier - here's a bit more:

Edit: Also, I had this one in my Goshen/Midway folder but I believe this is the area where six people were killed near the intersection of IN-15 & US 20:

 

[Western_KS_Wx]

I have a hard time believing that out of the 18 F4 tornadoes during the Palm Sunday outbreak there wasn’t at least 1 that caused F5 damage. A couple of which I believe were originally rated F5 before being dropped for various odd reasons.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

I have a hard time believing that out of the 18 F4 tornadoes during the Palm Sunday outbreak there wasn’t at least 1 that caused F5 damage. A couple of which I believe were originally rated F5 before being dropped for various odd reasons.

Yeah, there's easily 5 F5s from that day. It's ridiculously underrated.

 

[locomusic01]

Sunnyside, Toledo and Pittsfield were 100% F5s IMO. You could make a pretty good case for Sheridan, Manitou Beach and/or Rainbow Lake, too.

 

[Marshal79344]

I've been doing some digging through online stock websites and have come across a few notable images of tornado damage that I find worth sharing with you guys.

Cookeville, TN




Indian Bayou area near Rolling Fork, MS



Flint, MI tornado of 1953



An aerial of the Smithfield area after the tornado of April 4th, 1977



An aerial of Hesston, KS after March 13th, 1990

Damage near Deland, FL after the early-morning tornado of February 2nd, 2007



High-end tornado damage near Clinton, AR after the tornado of February 5, 2008




Some more images from Vilonia

 

[Ivanthetornadoenthusiast]

Sunnyside, Toledo and Pittsfield were 100% F5s IMO. You could make a pretty good case for Sheridan, Manitou Beach and/or Rainbow Lake, too.

Are there any photos of the possible F5 damage from Sheridan (IN) and Rainbow Lake (IN), Manitou Beach (MI)

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Found a collection of damage photographs from the Grinnell, Iowa tornado of 1882:


More can be found in these links:

Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views - NYPL Digital Collections

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Views of the Grinnell Cyclone of June 17th 1882 - Destruction on the Campus | Digital Grinnell

digital.grinnell.edu

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[locomusic01]

Are there any photos of the possible F5 damage from Sheridan (IN) and Rainbow Lake (IN), Manitou Beach (MI)

Been a little under the weather but probably tomorrow I'll post what I have. I think there's stuff from some of the other tornadoes I've been meaning to post anyway. Someday I need to go through my folder of unsorted/unlabeled Palm Sunday pictures and see if I can figure out where they're from as well.

Found a collection of damage photographs from the Grinnell, Iowa tornado of 1882:

Speaking of Grinnell, it's weird how many people I've come across who were there and then later went on to experience another notable violent tornado. In my Enigma Outbreak article I wrote about a guy who saw both Grinnell and the Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC F4+. One of the accounts I found while researching New Richmond came from a guy who'd previously had both his legs broken at Grinnell. There was a man who lost.. a sister I think? or maybe a wife? in Grinnell and then was killed himself in Pomeroy 1893. I think there were one or two others as well but I can't remember them off-hand.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Been a little under the weather but probably tomorrow I'll post what I have. I think there's stuff from some of the other tornadoes I've been meaning to post anyway. Someday I need to go through my folder of unsorted/unlabeled Palm Sunday pictures and see if I can figure out where they're from as well.


Speaking of Grinnell, it's weird how many people I've come across who were there and then later went on to experience another notable violent tornado. In my Enigma Outbreak article I wrote about a guy who saw both Grinnell and the Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC F4+. One of the accounts I found while researching New Richmond came from a guy who'd previously had both his legs broken at Grinnell. There was a man who lost.. a sister I think? or maybe a wife? in Grinnell and then was killed himself in Pomeroy 1893. I think there were one or two others as well but I can't remember them off-hand.

Grinnell's interesting because Grazulis thinks it's the earliest F5 that can be rated as such given the amount of damage photographs from it.
Yeah, apparently the guy who saw damage from Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC said that damage from it was worse than Grinnell, which REALLY makes me wish there was available photographs from 1884. I'm sure there's some buried in archives or newspapers.com somewhere I just haven't thought to look for yet or might be lost forever, who knows?

 

[locomusic01]

Grinnell's interesting because Grazulis thinks it's the earliest F5 that can be rated as such given the amount of damage photographs from it.
Yeah, apparently the guy who saw damage from Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC said that damage from it was worse than Grinnell, which REALLY makes me wish there was available photographs from 1884. I'm sure there's some buried in archives or newspapers.com somewhere I just haven't thought to look for yet or might be lost forever, who knows?

I didn't really know what I was doing back then so my search was far from exhaustive. Unfortunately if photos do exist they're probably in some random university collection or somewhere else where no one will ever get to see them.

And no I'm definitely not bitter at all.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

I didn't really know what I was doing back then so my search was far from exhaustive. Unfortunately if photos do exist they're probably in some random university collection or somewhere else where no one will ever get to see them.

And no I'm definitely not bitter at all.

Seems like lots of historic Dixie outbreaks are poorly documented; I'm sure occurring in remote, rural areas and being rain-wrapped might play a role but there's probably other reasons I haven't thought of.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Alright my tornado movie thread was getting derailed so moving discussion there.

Apparently on April 9, 1975 there was a major tornado in Smithfield, Nebraska. It was originally F5 but Dr. Fujita himself downgraded it to F4.

But apparently there was damage at a shack so bad he almost rated it F6. This is very interesting, especially for an event I had never heard of before.

BTW, the bots are back in town. Meet @Bender!