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Wow, that Tornado Talk link contains what I believe is the only radar imagery I've ever seen from that day. As expected, quite a lot of classic supercells clustered in a small area. Looks a bit like May 3, 1999 over central Oklahoma (although maybe not quite on that scale, maybe more like May 24, 2011).
It's surprisingly difficult to find much information on this event...according to this YouTube comment on one of the Pampa tornado vids apparently the damage and meterological surveys on this event were accidentally discarded by someone. Also, not sure if you've already seen this, but this TLC documentary has the only known videotaped damage aftermath from Pampa I've been able to find:
 
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It's surprisingly difficult to find much information on this event...according to this YouTube comment on one of the Pampa tornado vids apparently the damage and meterological surveys on this event were accidentally discarded by someone. Also, not sure if you've already seen this, but this TLC documentary has the only known videotaped damage aftermath from Pampa I've been able to find:


Yes, I have seen that documentary (have it recorded in fact), and I heard about the surveys being accidentally discarded. Shame, since it's the type of once-in-a-few-decades regional tornado outbreak that deserves an extensive write-up on the local NWSFO's web site.
 
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Yes, I have seen that documentary (have it recorded in fact), and I heard about the surveys being accidentally discarded. Shame, since it's the type of once-in-a-few-decades regional tornado outbreak that deserves an extensive write-up on the local NWSFO's web site.
Where did you here about the surveys being accidentally discarded? I heard it from a frequent YouTube commenter and storm chasing enthusiast 5-6 years ago.
 
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The 10t propane tank thrown half mile made by Moore EF5 was very famaous and there was actually another propane tank which also threw half mile onto the roof of Briarwood Elementary School.(You can also notice a car nearby, there was also a car threw onto the roof of Moore Medical Center)
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three oil tank pictures I can find:
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It also threw a cargo at least a quarter mile and it landed in the debris of a home.

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Wow, that Tornado Talk link contains what I believe is the only radar imagery I've ever seen from that day. As expected, quite a lot of classic supercells clustered in a small area. Looks a bit like May 3, 1999 over central Oklahoma (although maybe not quite on that scale, maybe more like May 24, 2011).

I'm curious about those two large supercells with classic hooks, adjacent to each other, southeast of the Pampa area at the end of the loop. I wonder if one of them eventually produced the Kellerville/Allison tornadoes?
Jeff Duda posted this radar loop in the stormtrack thread on the event: http://www.caps.ou.edu/~jdduda/other_ST/08_June_1995_KAMA_n0r_loop.gif
https://stormtrack.org/community/th...a-allison-kellerville-tornado-outbreak.17452/
 

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Some other pampa car damage can be found in this tornado documentary,around 25min I think

These badly mangled car all came from Ted whose home was taken a direct hit from pampa F4 and he claimed he saw the inside of the funnel,that's unbelievable.
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The tornado documentary also has some rare damage footage of kellerville F4(F5?)and even survivors's story(Though his home might not have been directly hit).
Home completely swept clean.
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dead cows and horses caked in mud, severe ground scouring
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Brick home damage,notice the intense tree damage in the corner
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Some other pampa car damage can be found in this tornado documentary,around 25min I think

These badly mangled car all came from Ted whose home was taken a direct hit from pampa F4 and he claimed he saw the inside of the funnel,that's unbelievable.
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The tornado documentary also has some rare damage footage of kellerville F4(F5?)and even survivors's story(Though his home might not have been directly hit).
Home completely swept clean.
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dead cows and horses caked in mud, severe ground scouring
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Brick home damage,notice the intense tree damage in the corner
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Are some of those cars the ones that were thrown into the air?
 

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Are some of those cars the ones that were thrown into the air?
I'm not very clear though I think those were not the cars been thrown into air.The famous footage which caught semi and pickup truck been thrown for 250m were actually fliming the moment tornado entering pampa industrial park,From the TLC documentary,you can see the same level car damage in pampa industrial park.
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Ted's house and his car were located at the edge of pampa residential area.So according to his words,the tornado firstly impacted his house and then moved to the industrial park.It's just astonishing that a drillbit type tornado can have some many violent car damage.
 

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Some other damage from the canton east TX EF3 on 4/29/2017,I just can't get why this tornado was rated 145mph EF3.
car damage
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asphalt removed
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Home completely swept clean
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intense tree damage
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Here's a collection of photos from the Worth, MO April 29, 1947 tornado. It sort of got lost in the shadow of the Glazier-Higgins-Woodward event but it was quite violent in its own right. 14 were killed in the small town, large trees were debarked, and fairly large and well constructed homes were completely destroyed and in some cases swept away. Grazulis considered it a possible F5.
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Some aerial shots
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Definitely quite violent.
 
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Some other damage from the canton east TX EF3 on 4/29/2017,I just can't get why this tornado was rated 145mph EF3.
car damage

asphalt removed

Home completely swept clean


intense tree damage

Were these pics from the Canton EF3 or the Eustace/Canton EF4 before?
 

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Were these pics from the Canton EF3 or the Eustace/Canton EF4 before?
Those pics all came from the canton EF3.The eustace EF4 completely destroyed or leveled many big FR12,but violent car damage could not be found in this tornado.
Eustace house damage:
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Is that really from 1899? It is much better quality than I would have expected

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It is indeed. The aftermath was photographed quite extensively so there are a lot of damage photos out there. New Richmond was a large-ish town for the area and the tornado and fires afterwards basically leveled it completely.
 
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It is indeed. The aftermath was photographed quite extensively so there are a lot of damage photos out there. New Richmond was a large-ish town for the area and the tornado and fires afterwards basically leveled it completely.
What's amazing and frustrating is how some older events (such as Richmond) have better documentation of them than modern ones (Lawrence County, 1998 or many of the Alabama tornadoes of April 3, 1974).
 
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