Significant Tornado Events

[Central Ohio Wx]

In my opinion, the 1925 Tri-State F5 probably looked very similar to the Wichita Falls F4 while it was in MO, and like the Hackleburg and Yazoo City tornadoes in IL and IN. I still believe there are images out there of this beast that simply have remained in basements.


Yazoo City (edited to look like a pre-color image)

Hackleburg (edited to look like a pre-color image; tried my best lol)

 

[ColdFront]

Speaking of Hackleburg/PC, I didn’t realize just how much Vilonia physically resembled it. Especially when H/PC was in the Tanner area. Both really had that boiling cloud/ground scraping wall cloud look.

H/PC:




Vilonia:

 

[slenker]

Speaking of Hackleburg/PC, I didn’t realize just how much Vilonia physically resembled it. Especially when H/PC was in the Tanner area. Both really had that boiling cloud/ground scraping wall cloud look.

Is it fair to say that Vilonia was every bit as powerful as many of the violent tornadoes from 4/27/11? The damage imagery I see from Vilonia is always supremely impressive to me, and really does remind me of damage from Ringgold, Tuscaloosa, or Rainsville. It’s especially odd to me that 4/27/14 was full of far less powerful tornadoes than 4/27/11, yet contained that monster.

 

[ColdFront]

Is it fair to say that Vilonia was every bit as powerful as many of the violent tornadoes from 4/27/11? The damage imagery I see from Vilonia is always supremely impressive to me, and really does remind me of damage from Ringgold, Tuscaloosa, or Rainsville. It’s especially odd to me that 4/27/14 was full of far less powerful tornadoes than 4/27/11, yet contained that monster.

I would definitely agree it was on par with some of the tornados you listed from that day.

 

[joshoctober16]

Speaking of Hackleburg/PC, I didn’t realize just how much Vilonia physically resembled it. Especially when H/PC was in the Tanner area. Both really had that boiling cloud/ground scraping wall cloud look.

H/PC:
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Vilonia:
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when i hear the boiling cloud on the ground , in my mind sounds more like a pyroclastic flow.

i say this because there was one of the cope landspouts (might be a hybrid) that turned into a strange downwards pyroclastic tumbling boiling look



look at the left one at 0:30 to 0:38



heck bridge creek 1999 did this when it went from wedge to stovepipe in bridge creek.
at 6:30 to 7:30 , harder to see since its lower quality and fuzzy looking.

 

[joshoctober16]

Tri state 1925 from what i can see was 3 main tornadoes along with some satellites or twins during the main EF5


at its max width was likely over 2+ mile wide



there were momments of what appears to be twin violent tornadoes that seem to merge into one , similar to el reno 2011


can find a lot of damage points of swept clean with spots of light damage in the middle , tri state did a lot of cycloidal like path changes , this could sometimes be seen with the hackelburg tornado near tanner , and el reno 2011.

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Tri state 1925 from what i can see was 3 main tornadoes along with some satellites or twins during the main EF5
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at its max width was likely over 2+ mile wide
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there were momments of what appears to be twin violent tornadoes that seem to merge into one , similar to el reno 2011

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can find a lot of damage points of swept clean with spots of light damage in the middle , tri state did a lot of cycloidal like path changes , this could sometimes be seen with the hackelburg tornado near tanner , and el reno 2011.

Wait, could I get that kmz too? I could probably use it for the Wikipedia article lol

 

[joshoctober16]

Wait, could I get that kmz too? I could probably use it for the Wikipedia article lol

my tri state survey isn't finish yet.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Wait, could I get that kmz too? I could probably use it for the Wikipedia article lol

I have a kmz for the full damage path with 5,200 damage points. Josh is actually using mine albeit an outdated version.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Tri state 1925 from what i can see was 3 main tornadoes along with some satellites or twins during the main EF5
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at its max width was likely over 2+ mile wide
View attachment 46280

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there were momments of what appears to be twin violent tornadoes that seem to merge into one , similar to el reno 2011

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can find a lot of damage points of swept clean with spots of light damage in the middle , tri state did a lot of cycloidal like path changes , this could sometimes be seen with the hackelburg tornado near tanner , and el reno 2011.

I can send you the updated kmz file on discord if you like. I also have a link to a sharepoint.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Google Earth

earth.google.com

To anyone who wants it. Here is the sharepoint to the google earth link of the damage path. It has 5,200 placements. It may take time to load.

 

[HAwkmoon]

Also included debris locations.

each point has info.