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Oh nice! That's horrifying. What a scary sight. Mind if I throw that in the article?
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Oh nice! That's horrifying. What a scary sight. Mind if I throw that in the article?
South Roxana, Illinois from May 2013 was one of the most ridiculously overrated tornadoes I know of btw. The collapse of this large, and likely frail wood-framed shed structure was assigned a high-end EF3 rating somehow. Also note the untouched power poles next to it. Some WFOs wouldn't even rate this higher than EF1. Pretty ridiculous..
Exactly. I was incredibly confused when that survey was released. Pretty sure the lead surveyor was Fred Glass, who definitely has the tendency to overrate tornadoes. I remember another survey where he applied an EF3 rating to an unreinforced cinder-block wall that partially collapsed at a commercial building. That type of damage happens at 90 MPH (EF1). Would love to see him and John Robinson from LZK in a room together talking ratingsThose aren't well built either.
This so much! I can’t wait.I am absolutely chomping at the bit for sigtor19. I don't know how I'm gonna make it two years. So many events I am eager to see in the Grazulis perspective.
Exactly. I was incredibly confused when that survey was released. Pretty sure the lead surveyor was Fred Glass, who definitely has the tendency to overrate tornadoes. I remember another survey where he applied an EF3 rating to an unreinforced cinder-block wall that partially collapsed at a commercial building. That type of damage happens at 90 MPH (EF1). Would love to see him and John Robinson from LZK in a room together talking ratings
That would be a nightmare. Wasn't John Robinson the guy who said about the Vilonia, Arkansas tornado no EF5 this time.Exactly. I was incredibly confused when that survey was released. Pretty sure the lead surveyor was Fred Glass, who definitely has the tendency to overrate tornadoes. I remember another survey where he applied an EF3 rating to an unreinforced cinder-block wall that partially collapsed at a commercial building. That type of damage happens at 90 MPH (EF1). Would love to see him and John Robinson from LZK in a room together talking ratings
This so much! I can’t wait.
This is low to mid EF2 (115-125 mph) damage at most.South Roxana, Illinois from May 2013 was one of the most ridiculously overrated tornadoes I know of btw. The collapse of this large, and likely frail wood-framed shed structure was assigned a high-end EF3 rating somehow. Also note the untouched power poles next to it. Some WFOs wouldn't even rate this higher than EF1. Pretty ridiculous..
That would be him. Also by "this time", he really means "ever".That would be a nightmare. Wasn't John Robinson the guy who said about the Vilonia, Arkansas tornado no EF5 this time.
Speaking of rating issues, I still don't understand why the Gregory, SD tornado on the same day was rated F5 when this one wasn't. To be fair I haven't seen many damage photos, but the descriptions I've read really suggest to me that the Primrose tornado was probably more violent than the Gregory one.Rare (and reasonable quality) colour photograph of the F4 tornado that devastated Primrose, NE on 5/8/1965.