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Significant Tornado Events

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I swear, I am just absolutely dumbfounded at how astonishingly violent the El Reno/Piedmont EF5 was. Tornado TRX’s video really solidified its status for me as one of if not possibly the strongest tornado in history. It is in my opinion the strongest of the EF5s.
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Is this the tornado that managed to remove basement walls or something like that?
 
Juliett Bravo Kilo said:
Is this the tornado that managed to remove basement walls or something like that?
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One of them. It cracked and scoured parts of concrete basement walls, splattering it with mud and granulating all debris into fine particles. Vegetation here was also debarked and shredded. I listed more below.
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There are many more, but this is the single most notable instance. Tri-State (cracked basement walls near ground level in West Frankfort), Hackleburg (poorly built house had stem walls pushed down), Greensburg (cracked a windowsill), Parkersburg (deformed concrete walkway), Brandenburg (completely pushed down basement walls), are some others just to name a few. (Seriously, what is with the -burg tornadoes doing damage to basements lol)
 
ThatGuy;P said:
From what I know, Moore, Joplin, and Greensburg are just not that incredible damage wise. Philadelphia would be lower if it wasn't for that trench.
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I’d have to disagree on those 3 tornadoes not being all that incredible damage wise. Moore and Joplin caused the most extreme damage in residential areas we’ve seen in modern history. Here’s some photos I have of the 3 in chronological order:

Greensburg:
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Joplin:
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Moore:
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Even then these are just a select few of the hundreds other photos out there showcasing even more extreme damage from these tornadoes.
 
Based on recent discussions on this forum, I have heard that Fujita assigned a preliminary F6 rating to Xenia because of the cycloidal marks that it produced after leaving town, not because of the Arrowhead/Windsor Park Subdivisions. Are there any images of these marks?
 
parkersburgwx said:
Based on recent discussions on this forum, I have heard that Fujita assigned a preliminary F6 rating to Xenia because of the cycloidal marks that it produced after leaving town, not because of the Arrowhead/Windsor Park Subdivisions. Are there any images of these marks?
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I love how we have a user named Parkersburg now lol.

Also no. As far as I know, there are no known images of the Cyclodial markings left from the Xenia, OH tornado. However, we do have images of them from the March 13, 1990 Goessel, KS tornado.
 
A Guy said:
A pseudonymous amateur researcher claim to have documented 106 tornadoes for the 19/02/1884 outbreak (compared to the 60 recorded by Finley) with 75 significant (compared to Grazulis' 37). They've put them in a Google book which can be previewed for free. It seems they have used newspaper reports as their sources.





Must say, not sure about the tracks that are in rather different directions to the others.

Two years ago I found a report in the obscure American Meteorological Journal a report, though a not very detailed one, of a tornado that passed north of Stateburg (spelt 'Stateburgh' by the author) South Carolina, a locality west of where Shaw AFB now is. Finley's map isn't precise enough, but if Grazulis knew of it he didn't consider it significant, it isn't on the map on Shawn's (locomusic01) article, and it doesn't appear to be on the above person's map either.
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There was also an unconfirmed tornado, mentioned in a comment in Locomusic's Enigma article, that hit and apparently largely destroyed the town of Norlina, North Carolina. That one actually was potentially violent if it was legit and the implied scale of damage accurate. Not a trace of it on any map I've seen of the outbreak so far.

EDIT: Not my first mention of that one, either!
Lake Martin EF4 said:
Final thing - The same comment includes a mention that Norlina, NC (way up in Warren County near the state line) got gollywalloped by an undocumented tornado in the Enigma Outbreak.

Sounds like F4-F5 damage based off that singular post. But take it with a grain of salt.
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THE SMALL TOWN OF NORLINA NC WAS COMPLETELY FLATTENED OR BLOWN AWAY BY A LARGE AND DEADLY TORNADO DURING THE ENIGMA DISASTER.
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