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Is this the link you mention? Some pretty impressive pics on here: https://www.sellersphoto.com/p370159506That sounds right.
I wish sellerphoto hadn’t taken down their interactive map with the photos. Many photos are still up on the site, but many are missing. There was also an excellent high res aerial video on YouTube from Hackleburg to Athens, but it is gone as well. The damage in Moulton isn’t talked about as much, but from the air it was just as severe as Hackleburg. The ground was just blasted white.
Today' s the 15th anniversary of the Stoughton WI F3 occurred on 8/18/2005.Another potential violent tornado, narrow but andover-like violent motion was evident as it went into downtown Stoughton.Numerous FR12 got completely destroyed or leveled though a close inspection shows the missing of some anchors in some houses.Ground scouring can be clearly seen outside town.Would like to go a 165—170mph rating
I have a feeling it would have been rated F5 it not for La Plata 2 years prior.Whoa. That thing was damn near F5.
This outbreak undoubtedly gets overshadowed by Palm Sunday that occurred only weeks earlier, and it was part of a sequence lasting from May 5-8, that produced violent tornadoes throughout the Upper Midwest. On May 8, Gregory, South Dakota was struck by an F5, the only such tornado in South Dakota's history, interestingly enough. This thing had a path length of 30 miles, quite long for tornadoes that far north which normally have path lengths in the single digits. The only informative article on that thing with damage pics I could find:One event that isn't talked about much in the weather community is the May 6, 1965 Twin Cities tornado outbreak. Though generally known for the Fridley tornadoes there were other violent tornadoes in rural areas. What was probably the most intense of these tornadoes was the Norwood-Young America F4 which devastated the countryside just outside the town of Norwood-Young America. Trees were shredded and debarked, a half a dozen farms were leveled (some had the farmhouse swept away), one new $60,000 brick country-home was completely leveled or swept away, cars were thrown long distances and some possible ground scouring occurred.
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That tornado was one of 2+ long-tracked violent tornadoes (or tornado families) in the NE-SD region that day. One of the other notable violent tornadoes from this outbreak was the Primrose NE tornado which basically destroyed the town of Primrose. Homes were swept away in Primrose, a truck body was carried/rolled for 2 miles, cars were carried for 400 yards, trees were debarked and denuded and ground scouring occurred.This outbreak undoubtedly gets overshadowed by Palm Sunday that occurred only weeks earlier, and it was part of a sequence lasting from May 5-8, that produced violent tornadoes throughout the Upper Midwest. On May 8, Gregory, South Dakota was struck by an F5, the only such tornado in South Dakota's history, interestingly enough. This thing had a path length of 30 miles, quite long for tornadoes that far north which normally have path lengths in the single digits. The only informative article on that thing with damage pics I could find:
Tripp County, SD F5 Tornado – May 8, 1965 – Tornado Talk
www.tornadotalk.com
There are many inconsistencies and false information in the official NWS tornado database for May 6, 1965. Somehow the Norwood-Young America tornado got an F2 rating despite the very obvious F4 damage, injuries and fatalities are missing for some of the tornadoes, the starting and ending points are wrong for some of the tornadoes and over 8 tornadoes are not even in the database.Given the foundation type, that doesn’t look like genuine F5 damage to me. It’s odd they’d give this single tornado an F5 rating, yet all from the 1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak just weeks prior were eventually rated F4, despite producing damage that was much more impressive than Colome/Gregory.
People talk about rating inconsistencies like it’s a new problem, but it’s always been there. Even with the old scale.
Ruskin Heights gets overlooked quite a bit, which is surprising considering how well-documented it was for the time. As a Kansas City, it's a bit of a legend up here. It also had a path of nearly 70 miles, quite impressive for a typical plains tornado. Some notable pics from it:
As this occurred in 1965 it would've been before the establishment of the F-scale, correct? So it would have been retroactively rated based on damage pictures, right? Yeah, Fujita really was lenient with many of the "F5s" he rated in his career, and yet somehow Palm Sunday 1965 has 17 F4s and not a single F5 among them; Fujita really was weird with his ratings.There are many inconsistencies and false information in the official NWS tornado database for May 6, 1965. Somehow the Norwood-Young America tornado got an F2 rating despite the very obvious F4 damage, injuries and fatalities are missing for some of the tornadoes, the starting and ending points are wrong for some of the tornadoes and over 8 tornadoes are not even in the database.