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Significant Tornado Events

AJS said:
Piedmont and Bridge Creek are in my opinion the two most violent tornadoes in Oklahoma history. I feel like when comparing them, the one thing each tornado did more impressively was the scouring and debarking each tornado did. Bridge Creek had ground scouring that was a bit more intense, but Piedmont takes the cake when it comes to utterly debarking every tree it touched. Every tree that twister struck was reduced to nothing but a lifeless, debarked tree.
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And both obliterated every building and vehicle they touched. I guess once can argue the sheer destruction of May 3rd is more impressive, or that the single area at Cactus-117 or that trenched home north of El Reno is. Which is why I always say that there is no true answer for "strongest tornado" it gets to a point where there is just no real difference.
 
HAwkmoon said:
And both obliterated every building and vehicle they touched. I guess once can argue the sheer destruction of May 3rd is more impressive, or that the single area at Cactus-117 or that trenched home north of El Reno is. Which is why I always say that there is no true answer for "strongest tornado" it gets to a point where there is just no real difference.
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I'd say El Reno 2011 is slightly more violent than May 3rd as it did massive debarking, scouring and the like it's whole and lasted for nearly 2 hours, Bridge Creek-Moore peaked over a smaller area and remained intense but significantly weaker as it went through the urban areas.
 
AJS said:
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There literally is not a single damage photo from this tornado that never ceases to stun me.
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Youve found the Flickr photo reel lol! But yes; this tornado is CERTAINLY on par with champions of violence like Bridgecreek, Moore, Loyal Valley, or your strongest tornado of all time. This tornado was described to have sounded like: "Heavy artillery fire" multiple times; plus detectably shake the surrounding landscape like an earthquake.
Rodger Edwards said in his chase blog: "This was one bad, bad, bad mother" in response to the visual appearance of the Piedmont tornado. Pecos Hank himself was scared of it's foreboding presence. It was noted by Convective Chronicles(YouTube) that this tornado had a horizontal subvortex so strong and large; you could see it on the RADXPOL scans.... if those descriptions dont hammer in how otherworldly this tornado was, Im sure theres still stuff out there that will.
 
Juliett Bravo Kilo said:
I'd say El Reno 2011 is slightly more violent than May 3rd as it did massive debarking, scouring and the like it's whole and lasted for nearly 2 hours, Bridge Creek-Moore peaked over a smaller area and remained intense but significantly weaker as it went through the urban areas.
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Even throughout Moore proper, it was extremely violent. Though I understand your point.1736892666431.png
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Central Oklahoma on May 24, 2011 was a hairsbreadth from a catastrophe that combined would have dwarfed either Moore (E)F5. Imagine, El Reno-Piedmont tracks just a mile or two further south, through both cities proper, while Chickasha and Goldsby each track for just another five miles into parts of Moore/Norman that had been/and in the future would continue to be repeatedly battered by strong-violent tornadoes.
 
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CheeselandSkies said:
Central Oklahoma on May 24, 2011 was a hairsbreadth from a catastrophe that combined would have dwarfed either Moore (E)F5. Imagine, El Reno-Piedmont tracks just a mile or two further south, through both cities proper, while Chickasha and Goldsby each track for just another five miles into parts of Moore/Norman that had been/and in the future would continue to be repeatedly battered by strong-violent tornadoes.
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Piedmont was about 2.3 miles north of El Reno; 2.3 miles and there wouldve been an unprecedented situation.
 
I feel like one tornado that gets overlooked this decade is the black creek Georgia tornado from 2022.

I feel like that one, could have been rated EF5, if the contextual damage matched the impressive home damage.
The first swept home was swept nearly COMPLETELY clean. And it was an exceptionally well built anchor bolted home.

I also find it odd that the homes in that subdivision seem to have been built back basically how they were before the tornado. With the same blueprints maybe.
 
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tornado examiner said:
I feel like one tornado that gets overlooked this decade is the black creek Georgia tornado from 2022.

I feel like that one, could have been rated EF5, if the contextual damage matched the impressive home damage.
The first swept home was swept nearly COMPLETELY clean. And it was an exceptionally well built anchor bolted home.

I also find it odd that the homes in that subdivision seem to have been built back basically how they were before the tornado. With the same blueprints maybe.
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Do you happen to have any damage pictures from the tornado?
 
NewFoundWeatherNerd said:
Piedmont was about 2.3 miles north of El Reno; 2.3 miles and there wouldve been an unprecedented situation.
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Look who it is!!!

Yeah, really. El Reno has gotten really lucky. In just 2 years, El Reno narrowly dodged 2 tornadoes that could've destroyed the town. Piedmont did absolutely absurd damage in the rural areas, imagine what it could've done in a town. Would've been extremely horrible.
 
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