Significant Tornado Events

[Central Ohio Wx]

I was looking for Parkersburg tornado live coverage and all I found was this video, has anyone seen anything else?


As an aside, in my opinion, this was really bad casting. A PDS warning over a town, and they're trying to figure out where an intersection is??

If you think that’s bad, check out WLBT’s coverage of the 2023 Rolling Fork tornado (it’s available on YouTube). They focus on hail for most of the time prior to the tornado hitting town; it’s easily the single worst tornado broadcast I’ve ever seen.

 

[N0mz]

I never realized the 2011 springfield ef3 produced such violent tree damage

 

[Clancy]

If you think that’s bad, check out WLBT’s coverage of the 2023 Rolling Fork tornado (it’s available on YouTube). They focus on hail for most of the time prior to the tornado hitting town; it’s easily the single worst tornado broadcast I’ve ever seen.

Here's a link for that coverage. I typically refrain from criticizing broadcast coverage, but this was particularly poor execution. He glosses over the storm in general for several minutes and talks haphazardly, and then does a poor job of conveying the significance of the TORP when issued. His assisting met, Peyton Garrison, was clocked-in by comparison, and she pointed out the strong couplet and BWER repeatedly.

I could forgive all those things, of course, broadcasting and communicating is difficult on-the-fly. But, as the tornado was on the ground, punching a clear hole through reflectivity and rapidly approaching Rolling Fork, he spent 5 minutes talking about quarter-sized hail, making sure to bring up VIL immediately after being told the tornado was spotter-confirmed. CC wasn't even used until 8:09 PM, at which point there was a very large TDS visible. Again, I get communicating to the public is tricky, but this was just not great and likely impacted some people's reactions.

 

[Aaron Rider]

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I never realized the 2011 springfield ef3 produced such violent tree damage

Yes, that tornado should have been EF4. First violent New England tornado since 1979, I believe

 

[N0mz]

Yes, that tornado should have been EF4. First violent New England tornado since 1979, I believe

Windsah Locks in ‘79 right? Another pretty monstrous tornado. We seem to get one once in a generation or so.

 

[Asha627]

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I have a bunch of photos from this tornado, I uploaded this one on X a while back as it seemed nobody had found it on YouTube yet.

 

[andyhb]

Rare footage of the Raritan IL F4 tornado from 5/13/1995. Very impressive motion evident in this clip (tornado part is the first 5 minutes or so).

 

[HAwkmoon]

Actually, I’m pretty confident it would have been rated EF5 during the Moore survey. Three of the EF5 homes in Moore had straight nailed studs and actually, one of them was upgraded AFTER the fact.

I am aware of at least one EF5 home in Moore that was later downgraded due to missing nuts/washers on the exterior anchor bolts - and typical resistance is that exterior walls are bolted, interior walls use cut nails. Some of the INTERIOR bolts on the Vilonia home may have been missing nuts/washers, but tbh I’m more inclined to believe they were stripped off by the tornado. No issues with the exterior bolts missing anything on the Vilonia home as far as I know.

Most of the Moore EF4 homes I looked at on the DAT were the typical EF4/170 “all walls collapsed” homes, with a few being given EF4/199 or 200 due to a lack of anchor bolts or no ground survey, usual stuff.

Only one home in Moore rated EF5 had solely straight nailing but vilonia's home had some bolts too close to the edge. Nuts if tightened properly cannot really be pulled off the bolt unless the entire bolt is sheared in tension failure (as was seen in tri-state). However now you mention Moore you do actually have a point and you got me questioning now. Thanks for this insightful comment.