Hey Loco, I don't think we ever did get your opinion as to your "personal" F5s from Palm Sunday.I know I'm flooding the thread with Palm Sunday (sorry), but here's some more stuff from the "F1" in Monroe, WI:
And from the Watertown, WI "F2" as well:
Again, I'm far from an expert, but I feel fairly confident in saying the official ratings for Palm Sunday are.. not great.
Hell yeah man. The Ruskin Heights F5 is one of my favorite tornadoes of all time! Cannot wait to see the published product!Also, I've been (very slowly) working on an article on the Ruskin Heights outbreak so I figured I'd share a few preliminary things. Here's the full damage path with all of the fatalities plotted, and a closeup of the area between Martin City and Raytown where most of the deaths occurred:
The actual path was certainly wider in some areas, but I tend to err on the conservative side. Anyway, here's the Concordia, KS F4. The path plotted here is almost exactly 54 miles; Grazulis had the tornado dissipating 3mi NE of Morrowville, but there's continuous damage going several miles further, and a local sheriff reported watching the tornado follow him up the highway and cross in front of him near the end of the path here. Possible it may have been a tornado family, but there's no place I can definitively pinpoint a break.
The Harris-Rush City, MN F4 gets almost entirely overshadowed for obvious reasons, but its narrow core was pretty violent. The path here is about 10.4 miles with a max width of just under a quarter-mile, but the most intense damage may have only been like 50-100 yards:
I was a bit surprised to learn there were apparently multiple photos taken of this tornado, but I've only been able to find one so far:
The Fremont-Van Buren F4 path isn't finalized yet but it's roughly accurate and all seven deaths are plotted. Length is ~24.8 miles:
The Desloge, MO F3 (which I just realized I forgot to mark two of the deaths) with a path of ~30.5 miles. Not 100% certain the last couple of miles are actually tornado damage though, still working on that:
The Brownbranch-Squires, MO F2 (rated F3 by Grazulis, which is much more appropriate IMO). The path here is 33 miles:
There was a fairly significant tornado family in SE Nebraska covering a combined 74 miles, the last of which was photographed by multiple people in and around Lincoln:
Seeing the 12/23/2015 event on this list reminded me of another event that would qualify: the Christmas Day 2012 event.
No offense, but maybe start a new thread for this. I'd hate for this valuable thread to get cluttered with submitted tornado drawings.
No, I completely get it. I’ll go ahead and make a new thread for it later. I actually appreciate you telling me that, because I forgot what this site turned into the other day.
Multiple people who surveyed both events have compared Loyal Valley to Jarrell, and you can certainly see why. Thankfully Loyal Valley didn't hit anything like Double Creek Estates, but what it did hit, it pretty much obliterated. Multiple trucks and tractors were thrown between 1/4 and 3/4 mile, cows were mutilated in Jarrell-esque fashion, a 720-foot stretch of FM 152 was peeled up, mesquite trees were destroyed and/or uprooted and thrown, ground scouring was extreme, etc.
Sunnyside and Pittsfield are definitely the no-doubters, and I'd probably add Coldwater Lake #1 (J-4 if you go by Fujita's classification) to that category too. In my mind, the Sheridan, Greentown, Toledo and Rainbow Lake tornadoes also belong in their own little group. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I can discriminate between them except to say that they're just a notch below the first group. You could definitely make a case for any of them (and I'd argue all likely reached F5 intensity at some point), but they're not quite as clear-cut. If I had to choose, I'd say I'm most confident in Sheridan based on some of the damage around the Curryville subdivision.Hey Loco, I don't think we ever did get your opinion as to your "personal" F5s from Palm Sunday.
Well, besides Sunnyside and Pittsfield, which are in the "so obvious it hurts" category.
If memory serves me right, a gentleman was killed when a piece of wood penetrated both his garage and the car in which he was sittingMultiple people who surveyed both events have compared Loyal Valley to Jarrell, and you can certainly see why. Thankfully Loyal Valley didn't hit anything like Double Creek Estates, but what it did hit, it pretty much obliterated. Multiple trucks and tractors were thrown between 1/4 and 3/4 mile, cows were mutilated in Jarrell-esque fashion, a 720-foot stretch of FM 152 was peeled up, mesquite trees were destroyed and/or uprooted and thrown, ground scouring was extreme, etc.
Any photos of the Curryville Subdivision?
Yeah, the car you see in some of the photos is the one in which he was killed. He was in the car with his family and the garage was blown away and the car blasted by debris. Somehow everyone else in the car survived.
I need to look for some better ones; don't have much right now.
The only tornadoes from the 1974 super outbreak that I feel like deserved their F5 rating were Brandenburg, KY and Guin, AL. I do believe Tanner 1 was also extremely violent and probably was worthy of it’s F5 rating based on the damage reports i’ve heard from it, but I haven’t seen much images of the damage it caused.
Wow, I honestly didn’t know there were pictures of this beast. What a great find!
I agree completely actually. Brandenburg, Tanner 1 and Guin were the only tornadoes that caused F5 damage in the 74 Super Outbreak, from what I've seen.
Some sort of windrowing i guessDon't remember the context of this one, but it's from the same general area. I think it's across the road from where a couple of the homes above were.
2017 and 2018 were slow years when it comes to major outbreaks, but there were a few individual tornadoes that stood out for sure. Canton was definitely one of them. Pecos Hank called it the scariest tornado he'd ever seen. I agree it was probably violent.
What site are you getting the satellite images on? The one I used to get them from is no longer free access so I've looking for an adequate alternative.
EarthExplorer. It's not nearly as user-friendly as Sentinel Hub or LandsatLook (which it replaced), but it does the job.
