Juliett Bravo Kilo
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One of the most notable tornadic events outside the United States...the 1987 Edmonton storm. This high-end F4 is remarkable in so many ways, not the least being that it formed over 350 miles north of the U.S. border. It stayed on the ground for over an hour before finally dissipating on the northern edge of the city limits of Edmonton. So, some links and relevant pics:
1. https://1987edmontontornado.webs.com/apps/photos/--this site has a great collection of photos of the tornado and damage
2. https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/tornado/home/t87--the best resource for meteorological review of the event. Also has a section on where the F4 rating was justified and explained quite thoroughly. It should be noted that some believe this tornado should have been given an F5 rating.
The first two pics are aerial photographs of areas where the most intense damage occurred. Borderline/low-end F5 damage may have occurred here:
The Evergreen Mobile Home Park, the tornado went through here near the end of it's life, and had narrowed significantly but was still doing F2-F3 damage. 15 of the 12 fatalities occurred here. Even the anomalous tornado that occurs 350+ miles north of the American border still manages to strike a trailer park.
These two pics are ground-level views of damage. Of note is the car with it's engine torn out and the large oil tank thrown a couple blocks.
This last pic is of the massive oil tank that was thrown and landed upside down after flying a couple blocks or so:
Two formation videos of this. The second is one of the most impreesive multivortex formations I've ever seen:
1. https://1987edmontontornado.webs.com/apps/photos/--this site has a great collection of photos of the tornado and damage
2. https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/tornado/home/t87--the best resource for meteorological review of the event. Also has a section on where the F4 rating was justified and explained quite thoroughly. It should be noted that some believe this tornado should have been given an F5 rating.
The first two pics are aerial photographs of areas where the most intense damage occurred. Borderline/low-end F5 damage may have occurred here:
The Evergreen Mobile Home Park, the tornado went through here near the end of it's life, and had narrowed significantly but was still doing F2-F3 damage. 15 of the 12 fatalities occurred here. Even the anomalous tornado that occurs 350+ miles north of the American border still manages to strike a trailer park.
These two pics are ground-level views of damage. Of note is the car with it's engine torn out and the large oil tank thrown a couple blocks.
This last pic is of the massive oil tank that was thrown and landed upside down after flying a couple blocks or so:
Two formation videos of this. The second is one of the most impreesive multivortex formations I've ever seen:
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