SilentShadow87
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Jordan, IA (June 12, 1976) is another example which I think is especially weird considering none of the available damage photos appear to show anything that wouldn't be expected from a "typical" violent tornado. There's some fairly visible wind-rowing of debris in one shot, but not anywhere near as extreme as, say, Andover or Smithville.There are (probably apocryphal) tales circulated of how "Fujita himself" was so impressed by the damage from such-and-such tornado (most often Guin or Xenia from 1974) that he considered rating it an "F6." Alternatively, that Bridge Creek-Moore 1999 should have been rated F6 because DOW measured 318 MPH winds with it. Well, if there were such a thing as an EF6, Smithville would be it. Some of that damage is on another level even compared with other EF5s (IMO only Parkersburg, IA 2008 comes close, with extreme debris granulation).
Interestingly I seldom hear Jarrell mentioned in the "F6" conversation despite the totality of the destruction, I wonder if it is discounted because of its slow movement?