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Significant Tornado Events

Central Ohio Wx said:
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HPC (again)
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Hackleburg has always had that sinister look to it, especially with how dark it got as it moved northeast. The LCLs almost legitimately scraping the ground in some images of it.

What’s interesting is that there was a F4 during the April 1920 Deep South outbreak that was nearly a carbon copy path wise of HPC. It impacted both Hackleburg and Phil Campbell and there were also reports of very darkened conditions during the storm.

Here is a description from the wiki article:

Pronounced darkness occurred at several locations in the path of the storm; one observer near Waco noted that there was no daylight and conditions were "dark as midnight.
 
You're an absolute wizard for finding all of these niche images @Central Ohio Wx . Cullman was one of the less photographed tornadoes during its peak intensity compared to other 4/27 storms, and the top one you've got there looks to be after it left the city and wedged out. Definitely one of the more overlooked tornadoes from that day. Looks like Tuscaloosa in that image.
 
slenker said:
You're an absolute wizard for finding all of these niche images @Central Ohio Wx . Cullman was one of the less photographed tornadoes during its peak intensity compared to other 4/27 storms, and the top one you've got there looks to be after it left the city and wedged out. Definitely one of the more overlooked tornadoes from that day. Looks like Tuscaloosa in that image.
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Cordova is the one I’ve been looking hardest into:
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Nick Krasz found that the Parkersburg tornado actually cycled two times and was not in fact a single tornado for 43 miles. Instead, two cycles occurred which he personally rated EF2. I'm not surprised at this as I always found it unusual how the tornado wedged out at its max while it weakened and didn't understand how it was larger than when it was EF5.

This really just does prove how even if documentation is better than it was 50 years ago that there's probably many tornadoes that haven't actually tracked what we think they did. Excellent work, @NickKrasz_Wx!



(@ColdFront introduced a tip to view threads like this if you don't have X, i forget what it was but hopefully he can add in here!)

I'm becoming increasingly interested that I might make a few tornado documentaries or at least try to research a few tornadoes further in depth that might not have the best documentation while the period is inactive for severe weather. I don't know what tornadoes I might do but might be some lesser known violent tornadoes
 
slenker said:
You're an absolute wizard for finding all of these niche images @Central Ohio Wx . Cullman was one of the less photographed tornadoes during its peak intensity compared to other 4/27 storms, and the top one you've got there looks to be after it left the city and wedged out. Definitely one of the more overlooked tornadoes from that day. Looks like Tuscaloosa in that image.
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That first photo of Cullman was in fact not after it wedged out - here's a clip from nearly the same spot:


Another clip filmed moments later, showing this is the tornado as it was entering Cullman:


You may have seen these videos before, but this is what the tornado ACTUALLY looked like as it left Cullman and subsequently wedged out in Fairview and Arab:


 
WeathermanLeprechaun said:
Nick Krasz found that the Parkersburg tornado actually cycled two times and was not in fact a single tornado for 43 miles. Instead, two cycles occurred which he personally rated EF2. I'm not surprised at this as I always found it unusual how the tornado wedged out at its max while it weakened and didn't understand how it was larger than when it was EF5.

This really just does prove how even if documentation is better than it was 50 years ago that there's probably many tornadoes that haven't actually tracked what we think they did. Excellent work, @NickKrasz_Wx!



(@ColdFront introduced a tip to view threads like this if you don't have X, i forget what it was but hopefully he can add in here!)

I'm becoming increasingly interested that I might make a few tornado documentaries or at least try to research a few tornadoes further in depth that might not have the best documentation while the period is inactive for severe weather. I don't know what tornadoes I might do but might be some lesser known violent tornadoes
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You just replace the “x” in x.com with “xcancel”, works like a charm.

I’d honestly like for someone to explore both El Reno 2011 and Red Rock 1991. I think Red Rock 1991 may be a bit too old, but it seems like both of those storms were really pushing the upper bound for maximum path length for a plains tornado.
 
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slenker said:
You're an absolute wizard for finding all of these niche images @Central Ohio Wx . Cullman was one of the less photographed tornadoes during its peak intensity compared to other 4/27 storms, and the top one you've got there looks to be after it left the city and wedged out. Definitely one of the more overlooked tornadoes from that day. Looks like Tuscaloosa in that image.
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Let me know if there's any specific tornado other than New Harmony or Lake Martin (both are generally accepted to be almost completely undocumented, with both having only one confirmed photo) you'd like me to look into and I'd gladly preform some more magic. ;)
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
Let me know if there's any specific tornado other than New Harmony or Lake Martin (both are generally accepted to be almost completely undocumented, with both having only one confirmed photo) you'd like me to look into and I'd gladly preform some more magic. ;)
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Have you tried the Great Smokey Mountain EF4 from 4/27/11? IIRC, it was spawned by the Cullman supercell. It was in a remote area, but I’d be interested to see if any nearby communities even got a snapshot of the wall cloud.
 
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