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Significant Tornado Events

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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I second @ColdFront for the Great Smoky Mountains EF4. Also, I saw you posted some imagery of Sawyerville-Eoline and am interested in more imagery about that storm, since it’s one of the EF3s that could very well been HE EF4+. Very very underrated tornado.
 
slenker said:
I second @ColdFront for the Great Smoky Mountains EF4. Also, I saw you posted some imagery of Sawyerville-Eoline and am interested in more imagery about that storm, since it’s one of the EF3s that could very well been HE EF4+. Very very underrated tornado.
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Imagery of the tornado itself or damage? I have a few photos of the tornado itself but not too many.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
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Does this look like two distinct mesocyclones (one to the SW) to y'all? I've already sent BMX the report of the two undocumented funnels captured on Coleman's video as I've found damage likely associated with them (directly E of Aldridge; probably not associated with the morning EF3 although it can't be ruled out), but just double-checking. The main reason these weren't able to be sent in prior to yesterday is that no attempt was made to geolocate Peters/Coleman's video and line up the time they showed up on video with the NWS-made path; lining everything up put them just east of Aldridge, which is where I found damage.

I counted at least four tornadoes spawned to the south of the main tornado, with two having definite damage and one being extremely weak, with only a few trees down. The fourth is a 50/50 as the damage is possibly not tornadic and it wasn't caught on video. None are satellites as all have a visible mesocyclone. Sorry for posting about these undocumented AL tors so much.
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BMX replied about this and unfortunately determined that due to the proximity to the morning EF3 they were unable to fully confirm any satellites associated with the main tornado. I don't necessarily agree, but it is what it is.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
Imagery of the tornado itself or damage? I have a few photos of the tornado itself but not too many.
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The tornado itself - @Grand Poo Bah had a great post in the EF debate thread detailing this tornado’s damage a good while back and it was really eye-opening to how violent this tornado was. Just another example of an underrated 4/27/11 tornado, good shot it reached EF5 intensity - whether it deserves the rating fully or not is another question. More likely should have been given an EF4 of some kind.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
BMX replied about this and unfortunately determined that due to the proximity to the morning EF3 they were unable to fully confirm any satellites associated with the main tornado. I don't necessarily agree, but it is what it is.
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Also, quick addition - BMX mentioned that there may have been ground contact briefly, so take it with a grain of salt.
 
ColdFront said:
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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This is the only confirmed one I’ve found.
 
slenker said:
I second @ColdFront for the Great Smoky Mountains EF4. Also, I saw you posted some imagery of Sawyerville-Eoline and am interested in more imagery about that storm, since it’s one of the EF3s that could very well been HE EF4+. Very very underrated tornado.
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Last pic is possibly a different tornado.
 
ColdFront said:
Your Wikipedia work (if it was you) on this tornado was top notch btw. I hadn’t been on the 4/27 Wikipedia in a while and was pleasantly surprised at how many of the violent afternoon tornados have their own articles now.
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Indeed that was me; glad someone noticed. Flat Rock, Cordova, Ringgold, and Cullman are also my work, while Hackleburg I've worked a little bit on.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
Indeed that was me; glad someone noticed. Flat Rock, Cordova, Ringgold, and Cullman are also my work, while Hackleburg I've worked a little bit on.
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I also can't resist posting the full list, lol:
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Central Ohio Wx said:
NWS JAN is considering splitting up the path of the Yazoo City EF4 due to multiple evident cycles.
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If I had to guess, this is how this splits would go:
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ThatGuy;P said:
The fact that even modern tornadoes like yazoo city and Parkersburg may have been multiple tornadoes really backs up the idea that the tri state tornado was multiple as well.
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Surprisingly no, Tri-state appears to have been one tornado through 100-200 miles of its track, similar to West Kentucky.

Speaking of tornadoes that are probably families, Enterprise MS from the 2011 super outbreak was definitely multiple tornadoes. Feel like large portions of ef0-ef2 damage in long tracker tornado paths is usually a red flag.
 
eep said:
Surprisingly no, Tri-state appears to have been one tornado through 100-200 miles of its track, similar to West Kentucky.

Speaking of tornadoes that are probably families, Enterprise MS from the 2011 super outbreak was definitely multiple tornadoes. Feel like large portions of ef0-ef2 damage in long tracker tornado paths is usually a red flag.
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I do agree with the tri state tornado that there was one tornado that made a large part of its track, but I have a hard time beleiving that a single tornado tracked 220 miles, especially considering that all of our documents come from before official record keeping on stuff like this.
 
All i’ll say about Mayfield is that the track length was very consistent the whole time and if you look at the damage path, it very clearly shows a tornado that was on the ground for an insanely long amount of time. 166 miles covered and on the ground for 2 hours and 54 minutes still to this day blows my mind.
 
speedbump305 said:
All i’ll say about Mayfield is that the track length was very consistent the whole time and if you look at the damage path, it very clearly shows a tornado that was on the ground for an insanely long amount of time. 166 miles covered and on the ground for 2 hours and 54 minutes still to this day blows my mind.
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Radar data was also completely supportive of a continuous tornado for 165 miles. There's still some people out there that say it didn't cycle before it entered Kentucky, and that its path length was indeed exceeding 200 miles, but that's most certainly not the case to me. Zero damage to the ground between the end of the Monette tornado and the beginning of the Mayfield tornado, as well as the velocities clearly being thrown a little out of balance when that happened. Very unlikely that it didn't cycle there.
 
Mayfield is one of those tornadoes that will still be talked about a ways down the road. A 160 mile tracked, violent EF4 (though it is 100% an EF5 candidate and if it happened in the 1960s or 1970s, it likely would have been rated such), and in DECEMBER, of all things.
 
eep said:
Surprisingly no, Tri-state appears to have been one tornado through 100-200 miles of its track, similar to West Kentucky.

Speaking of tornadoes that are probably families, Enterprise MS from the 2011 super outbreak was definitely multiple tornadoes. Feel like large portions of ef0-ef2 damage in long tracker tornado paths is usually a red flag.
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???

Everything I've read and seen regarding Enterprise suggested that it was not only continuous, but had a track length longer than the official record.
 
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