Significant Tornado Events

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Yup, Huntsville does indeed confirm that DAT should be disregarded and CWA issues are to blame. Hackleburg now re-holds the record as "longest of the Super Outbreak".

Still fails to explain the long EF0 string of damage before the EF3 picks up in Tennessee.
Someone doesn't know what they're doing.

 

[OH-IOan]

Still fails to explain the long EF0 string of damage before the EF3 picks up in Tennessee.
Someone doesn't know what they're doing.

Yea, I personally disagree that they were one tornado, but just letting y'all know that officially it's been confirmed that they were apparently one long tornado from the west side of Hamilton, Alabama to Huntland, Tennessee.

 

[A Guy]

Still fails to explain the long EF0 string of damage before the EF3 picks up in Tennessee.
Someone doesn't know what they're doing.

Overview of the Hackleburg-Harvest-Huntland AL-TN Tornadoes of April 27, 2011 – Tornado Talk

www.tornadotalk.com

Evidence apparently points to NWS Huntsville simply being wrong. I'd also add that CWA issues are impossible - the entirety of the lengths at question are within their CWA.

 

[OH-IOan]

Here's the full email response:

Thank you for reaching out. To directly answer your question, the information logged and certified in StormData represents the official record and stance for this tornado track.

I understand the confusion the DAT display might cause. In 2011, the DAT was not yet in operational use at WFO Huntsville; only a few offices, like WFO Birmingham (BMX), were testing it. This is why their tracks in the DAT from that period appear more detailed.

For the Huntsville area of responsibility, damage points were logged locally (standard operating procedure at the time), submitted, and then verified in StormData. The apparent gap in the DAT for northern Madison County, for instance, was surveyed several days after April 27, 2011, and after WFO BMX and DAT developers manually added points in the DAT. Damage was found, leading to the connection of the two track segments in the official StormData record.

My understanding, though I and much of the current staff were not here in 2011, is that these connected tracks were logged locally and certified in StormData, but not retroactively entered into the DAT, as Huntsville did not have access to the tool during its test phase.

Therefore, for information regarding the 2011 event, please rely on the official, certified StormData. The DAT became a more consistently accurate operational tool a few years later, and since its full implementation, DAT viewer entries align much more closely with what is certified in StormData.I hope this clarifies the situation.

Thanks!

Apparently I misread; there was less of a CWA issue and more of an office issue. Regardless, it's likely wrong.

 

[A Guy]

Their Storm Data write up is less than convincing:

 

[Ivanthetornadoenthusiast]

@locomusic01 (sorry for the mention) do you have anything on the April 27th-29th, 1942 Tornado Outbreak?

 

[AJS]

You’re friendly reminder on how utterly insane the tree damage caused by the Bassfield, MS tornado was.

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Another day another sig tor I'm looking for photos of. And maybe a popularity boost like what happened with 5/23/2008.

The tornado I'm looking for pictures of this time is the Estill, SC EF4 of April 13, 2020. Granted the thing was a QLCS tornado at 3:00 AM in the morning so I doubt there are too many photos of it but who knows? I didn't know of any Cairo or Cedar Bluff photos either, until I asked!

Remember this?

To this day, I still am wondering if ANY media has surfaced of this tornado. It was at 6:00 AM, in 2020, in an age where more people than ever have a cellphone. Logically there'd be at SOMETHING - even Newnan, a midnight rainwrapped mile wide wedge, at least has the dashcam footage, as does Cookeville. Estill is particularly important because it's the most likely officially rated violent tornado anywhere in the Carolinas to be photographed/filmed. Literally no other Carolinas violent tornado has photos or video.

I'll keep looking.

 

[locomusic01]

@locomusic01 (sorry for the mention) do you have anything on the April 27th-29th, 1942 Tornado Outbreak?

Not a whole lot. A few from the Crowell, TX F4 on 4/28:

And a few from the Oberlin, KS F5 on 4/29:

There's too much stuff in my Pryor, OK F4 folder to go through right now, but there's a bunch of photos here, among other places:

Pryor Tornado: April 27, 1942 – Pryor Public Library

www.pryor.okpls.org

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Remember this?

To this day, I still am wondering if ANY media has surfaced of this tornado. It was at 6:00 AM, in 2020, in an age where more people than ever have a cellphone. Logically there'd be at SOMETHING - even Newnan, a midnight rainwrapped mile wide wedge, at least has the dashcam footage, as does Cookeville. Estill is particularly important because it's the most likely officially rated violent tornado anywhere in the Carolinas to be photographed/filmed. Literally no other Carolinas violent tornado has photos or video.

I'll keep looking.

Here is all the video I've found from 4/13/20:

 

[locomusic01]

While we're in 1942, here are a few photos from the 6/20/42 Mulvane, KS F4:

And two from the 5/2/42 Mound City, KS F4:

And two from the Pawhuska, OK F4 the same day:

 

[locomusic01]

Continuing w/1942 stuff, a few random shots from the Caneyville, KY F4 on 3/16:

 

[locomusic01]

Also from the 3/16/42 outbreak, the delightfully named Squeeze Bottom, TN F3:

 

[Aaron Rider]

Also from the 3/16/42 outbreak, the delightfully named Squeeze Bottom, TN F3:

Man, did people dress sharp back in those days

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Man, did people dress sharp back in those days

Every girl was crazy for a sharp dressed man back then.

(Also that's a terrible, terrible song Jesus Christ ZZ Top what the hell were you thinking)

 

[locomusic01]

Man, did people dress sharp back in those days

Right? I was showing my girlfriend photos from New Richmond when I was working on that event and that's almost word for word the first thing she said too lol

On another topic, some more new stuff from 5/31/85, starting with the Niles-Wheatland F5:

 

[locomusic01]

And more from the Atlantic F4 (rambling to meet the word count):

 

[locomusic01]

Also a few from the Beaver Falls F3 (specifically around Saxonburg). I included the first one in my article, but this version is clearer & higher resolution:

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

It was at 6:00 AM, in 2020, in an age where more people than ever have a cellphone.

I found an answer to this, btw: it was apparently a rainwrapped wedge. That explains the lack of any notable photos/video.

 

[TornadoFan]

Good, but sobering video on the 2005 Evansville tornado.