Significant Tornado Events

[locomusic01]

Some rather violent damage from Pryor, Oklahoma, on 27 April 1942 (note the debarking of shrubbery and/or trees):



This source also contains many photographs that I have never personally seen before, also from this F4+ event.

I had a big folder full of stuff from Pryor at one point but I have no idea what happened to it now. Anyway, I remember a couple of shots from the Crowell, TX F4 the following day that looked even more impressive. I'd like to try and find them again at some point. That period from the end of April to the first week of May 1942 produced a bunch of impressive & relatively lesser-known tornadoes.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Hey! I messaged you a couple days ago but it seems like it didn't go through for some reason. Anyway, someone volunteered to read half of the article, so would you be willing to take the other half? If not, I can just send a few chapters — whatever works for you. I'm not super concerned about persnickety little grammar rules and whatnot (I deal with that enough in my day job lol) so much as making sure everything makes sense and I haven't made any boneheaded errors or left anything important out.

If you're still up for it, I'll probably be sending it out like tomorrow or Friday, work schedule permitting. It's basically done now but there are a couple things I'd really like to go back and add/expand on first.

Yeah I can read the second half for you.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Came across this on Reddit, apparently The Niles, OH Police Department just published these photos of the 1985 F5 that were rediscovered in the department garage:







Majority of this is F2-F3 damage but one of the pics there might be ground scouring and the two pics with the reddish-looking car with it's paint chipped off are impressive. Also, one of the car pics you can see 1 or 2 other cars behind it beat up real bad.

 

[locomusic01]

Came across this on Reddit, apparently The Niles, OH Police Department just published these photos of the 1985 F5 that were rediscovered in the department garage:

Majority of this is F2-F3 damage but one of the pics there might be ground scouring and the two pics with the reddish-looking car with it's paint chipped off are impressive. Also, one of the car pics you can see 1 or 2 other cars behind it beat up real bad.

Most of these were taken around the Convenient Food Mart (where one woman was killed) and the Eastwood Arms Apartments. Basically just before the tornado hulked out going up through the cemetery and the Shadow Ridge subdivision, although it was obviously pretty intense already.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Most of these were taken around the Convenient Food Mart (where one woman was killed) and the Eastwood Arms Apartments. Basically just before the tornado hulked out going up through the cemetery and the Shadow Ridge subdivision, although it was obviously pretty intense already.

Wasn't someone from the fire department or police going to send you a bunch of photos and just forgot to? Lol.
I wonder if this collection is from the same person.

 

[locomusic01]

Wasn't someone from the fire department or police going to send you a bunch of photos and just forgot to? Lol.
I wonder if this collection is from the same person.

Yeah, not sure if they forgot or just stopped responding for whatever reason. I sent them multiple messages but no luck. I believe those photos were supposed to be more from Niles Park Plaza and the neighborhoods around there.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Yeah, not sure if they forgot or just stopped responding for whatever reason. I sent them multiple messages but no luck. I believe those photos were supposed to be more from Niles Park Plaza and the neighborhoods around there.

Of course the most intense damage photos are the ones they didn't send. Always a problem with researching F5 tornadoes, it seems.

 

[pohnpei]

A few more to add to the collection:

Another DI I find interesting is this plausibly well-constructed home on Sara Rd NE that was obliterated in an EF5 fashion. It was extremely new and not there in the 2008 satellite imagery. But it ended up unsurveyed so unless someone finds ground level photos, we will never know for sure...
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Was that the house south of I-40? It's leveled by tornado and do seems well built in closer pics but debris piled up and didnt blown away btw. The strength of the tornado in this area was unimaginable based on the analysis of Raxpol data.

 

[TH2002]

Was that the house south of I-40? It's leveled by tornado and do seems well built in closer pics but debris piled up and didnt blown away btw. The strength of the tornado in this area was unimaginable based on the analysis of Raxpol data.

The tornado crossed I-40 near El Reno, didn't it? This house was north of Piedmont.

 

[locomusic01]

Happened to randomly come across a few photos from the Pomeroy F5 this morning while researching something else. I don't think they were included in my article (except maybe the last one IIRC?) but tbh I don't really feel like checking:

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Happened to randomly come across a few photos from the Pomeroy F5 this morning while researching something else. I don't think they were included in my article (except maybe the last one IIRC?) but tbh I don't really feel like checking:

Looks like some ground scouring in some photos, the debris granulation and ground scouring in the 3rd photo reminds me of that PowerPoint from Tim Marshall (I think) on differentiating between EF4 and EF5 damage.

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Going through my Tri-State photo collection and decided to put some pics through a colorizer. Yeah, ground scouring is noticeable in these. FYI all are from Missouri or Indiana, can't find many scouring pics in Illinois for whatever reason.

Missouri. One from Frohna, one from Biehle area:


Here you can see torn up ground in the remains of the home, and possibly some scouring on the hillsides nearby but hard to tell for sure:





This pic you can see discolored soil and debarked, shredded trees in the background.



These are from Indiana:








FYI some of the Indiana aren't the best quality to begin with so the colorizer can only do so much but the scouring is more noticeable here. Considering this tornado was moving in excess of 60 and 70 mph at times this kind of scouring is extremely impressive.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Going through my Tri-State photo collection and decided to put some pics through a colorizer. Yeah, ground scouring is noticeable in these. FYI all are from Missouri or Indiana, can't find many scouring pics in Illinois for whatever reason.

Missouri. One from Frohna, one from Biehle area:

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Here you can see torn up ground in the remains of the home, and possibly some scouring on the hillsides nearby but hard to tell for sure:



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This pic you can see discolored soil and debarked, shredded trees in the background.



These are from Indiana:
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FYI some of the Indiana aren't the best quality to begin with so the colorizer can only do so much but the scouring is more noticeable here. Considering this tornado was moving in excess of 60 and 70 mph at times this kind of scouring is extremely impressive.

Nice, What tool are you using for this?

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Nice, What tool are you using for this?

This one:

Image Colorizer

Add color to old family photos and historic images, or bring an old film back to life with colorization.

deepai.org

I used it for Guin damage pics extensively.

 

[locomusic01]

This one:

Image Colorizer

Add color to old family photos and historic images, or bring an old film back to life with colorization.

deepai.org

I used it for Guin damage pics extensively.

For anyone who has Photoshop, the Colorize neural filter works pretty well too, at least for certain images. It's kind of a hassle to use but it gives you more control over the results. I actually haven't played around with it a ton but I used it for a few Worcester photos (which, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I forgot to add to my article lol):

'Course it also helps that they were high-quality images to begin with. I'm still debating whether to colorize some New Richmond photos; I experimented with it a little bit a few months ago but the results were really hit-or-miss.

 

[HAwkmoon]

For anyone who has Photoshop, the Colorize neural filter works pretty well too, at least for certain images. It's kind of a hassle to use but it gives you more control over the results. I actually haven't played around with it a ton but I used it for a few Worcester photos (which, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I forgot to add to my article lol):

'Course it also helps that they were high-quality images to begin with. I'm still debating whether to colorize some New Richmond photos; I experimented with it a little bit a few months ago but the results were really hit-or-miss.

Cool, I used it here on Tri-state and got a decent result, looks very much like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

[andyhb]

This picture of the aftermath from SW of Barnsdall is pretty extreme.

 

[jiharris0220]

The Barnsdall tornado will go down as a dreadful reminder of what that day could’ve been with multiple tornadoes of such intensity going through Oklahoma.

Those trees weren’t just debarked, they got stubbed and splintered.

 

[Shakespeare 2016]

The Barnsdall tornado will go down as a dreadful reminder of what that day could’ve been with multiple tornadoes of such intensity going through Oklahoma.

.Those trees weren’t just debarked, they got stubbed and splintered.

Yeah, that is really violent tree damage. Maybe some possible scouring but can't say with certainly. A day where you have a high risk and have 31 weak tornadoes and this surprisingly one mile-wide EF4 tornado.

 

[Tanner]

Yeah, that is really violent tree damage. Maybe some possible scouring but can't say with certainly. A day where you have a high risk and have 31 weak tornadoes and this surprisingly one mile-wide EF4 tornado.

We have been very lucky this season for tornadoes.