Significant Tornado Events

[AJS]

I know this has probably been posted somewhere in this thread, but when researching a bit more about the 2014 Vilonia tornado, I came across this image that absolutely infuriated me even more as to why was this tornado given an EF4…

Notice how this house not only has its exterior walls anchored down, but if you look at this image, you can see how the interior walls were also bolted down! I genuinely thought Vilonia couldn’t get any more infuriating, but here we are. That is insanely strong anchoring and it’s such a shame that the one tornado in Arkansas history that caused such extreme/classic EF5 damage was robbed of its rating. Robinson was a straight up clown and i’m so glad he left LZK.

 

[HAwkmoon]

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I know this has probably been posted somewhere in this thread, but when researching a bit more about the 2014 Vilonia tornado, I came across this image that absolutely infuriated me even more as to why was this tornado given an EF4…

Notice how this house not only has its exterior walls anchored down, but if you look at this image, you can see how the interior walls were also bolted down! I genuinely thought Vilonia couldn’t get any more infuriating, but here we are. That is insanely strong anchoring and it’s such a shame that the one tornado in Arkansas history that caused such extreme/classic EF5 damage was robbed of its rating. Robinson was a straight up clown and i’m so glad he left LZK.

As much as I agree Vilonia deserved EF5. That home did not meet the far too stringent criteria set by the Moore 2013 survey. It was bolted yes but wall studs were straight nailed, and a couple bolts were missing nuts and washers. Also some bolts were spaced to close to the edge of the foundation and failed that way. These seemingly minor things are enough to prevent EF5. If it happened before 2013 it would have without question got EF5.