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Significant Tornado Events

speedbump305 said:
Y’all i found some tree damage from the Moore Tornado of 2013 that people might not know about? do y’all wanna see?
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What makes you think we don't know about anything involving tornado damage of any sort? Lol
In all seriousness, post whatever you found. We live for ogling tornado damage photographs all day and night, 24/7/365.
 
Juliett Bravo Kilo said:
What makes you think we don't know about anything involving tornado damage of any sort? Lol
In all seriousness, post whatever you found. We live for ogling tornado damage photographs all day and night, 24/7/365.
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Lol fr anyways this caught my attention. idk if anyone else has seen this, but it caught my attention and reminded me of Smithville tree damage. idk if it looks the same to y’all, but i feel like Moore 2013 is now in my top 7 strongest tornadoes of all time. this makes me think of how much tornado damage we are really missing
 

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Casuarina Head said:
1) You are correct in that I tend to place too much weight on singular pieces of evidence rather than a breadth of high-quality data. I should probably focus more on recent, well-documented events instead of older, more obscure ones. I’ll try to eliminate the dubious cases from my lists, posts, and musings from now on.

2) However, can you find a single instance of damage, contextually modulated or otherwise, that occurred in San Justo yet was more extreme than Tianjin? I don’t think San Justo snapped steel-and-concrete rebar, whereas Tianjin did so “in spades,” colloquially speaking.

1) I agree, but maybe we should define “minimal info.” People posted a number of images from Tianjin in this thread, several pages ago.

2) If I recall correctly, only the Plainfield event literally reduced mature corn to bare soil, even in spots. It even obliterated roots and stubble.
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Omg you’re exhausting. I KNOW it’s mature corn and it doesn’t matter. It’s CORN and corn fields already have exposed soil. I knew you’d regurgitate the same sentences you always spew out when trying to somehow paint Plainfield as impressive. There is NO SUCH THING as conclusively violent corn damage.

Also few pages and photos on a forum with no source materials are not enough to make conclusions about Tianjin being a top 5 event, let alone #1. This clearly shows your scatterbrained leaps in logic that I’m all to familiar with at this point.

I’m gonna go try to bring my blood pressure down now lol.
 
buckeye05 said:
Omg you’re exhausting. I KNOW it’s mature corn and it doesn’t matter. It’s CORN and corn fields already have exposed soil. I knew you’d regurgitate the same sentences you always spew out when trying to somehow paint Plainfield as impressive. There is NO SUCH THING as conclusively violent corn damage.

Also few pages and photos on a forum with no source materials are not enough to make conclusions about Tianjin being a top 5 event, let alone #1. This clearly shows your scatterbrained leaps in logic that I’m all to familiar with at this point.

I’m gonna go try to bring my blood pressure down now lol.
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I think Plainfield only deserves a low end F4 rating. it literally only got the F5 for the CORN DAMAGE. LIKE COME ON it’s CORN. plus it wasn’t even that impressive
 
Juliett Bravo Kilo said:
I'm wondering if speedbump305 is a sock puppet for Casaurina Head
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speedbump305 said:
I think Plainfield only deserves a low end F4 rating. it literally only got the F5 for the CORN DAMAGE. LIKE COME ON it’s CORN. plus it wasn’t even that impressive
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Now that i think about it, there’s several F5s that were rated on ground scouring. Philadelphia definitely deserves its EF5 rating tho the damage was extremely intense. Plainfield and Goesell don’t even deserve F5. they were rated on damage to crops. it’s absurd
 
I actually have a story about Jarrell to tell. my dad was driving from Waco to Austin and he happened to drive into jarrell a day after the tornado had passed and he drove through the damage path. he said it was the most insane tornado damage he has ever seen. he’s been in natural disasters and he said it was incredibly intense damage. he said you couldn’t even tell houses were here and it was just so intense, even bodies were torn into pieces and scattered. he will never forget seeing the damage.
 
I still have questions about whether TianJin tornado 1969/8/29 was an EF5 tornado, let alone the strongest of all time. Speaking of the factory damage, no one know whether it had sufficient vertical steel to support the lateral wall or whether any other weak point of the building exist. That "mangled car" in ZhuHe village was just normal cart rather than mangled vehicle, something very common in rural area in this place. There was no such "vehicle thing" in such rural area in North China Plain in 1969. People live in poor life at this time and no way they can afford an vehicle. EF scale rating here was quite liberal yet still got EF4 rating rather than EF5. The tornado was likely stronger before entering TinJin. You may have no idea what a true night time EF5 tornado can do to the fourth largest city in China at that time.
 
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pohnpei said:
I still have questions about whether TianJin tornado 1969/8/29 was an EF5 tornado, let alone the strongest of all time. Speaking of the factory damage, no one know whether it had sufficient vertical steel to support the lateral wall or whether any other weakpoint exist. That "mangled car" in ZhuHe village was just normal cart rather than mangled vehicle, something very common in rural area in this place. There was no such "vehicle thing" in such rural area in North China Plain in 1969. People live in poor life at this time. EF scale rating here was quite liberal yet still got EF4 rating rather than EF5. The tornado was likely stronger before entering TinJin. You may have no idea what a true night time EF5 tornado can do to the fourth largest city in China at that time.
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Those are some good points about the Tianjin 1969 tornado. Also, has there been any new information on the 8/11/2017 Chifeng tornado which reportedly swept away well-anchored brick homes?
 
MNTornadoGuy said:
Those are some good points about the Tianjin 1969 tornado. Also, has there been any new information on the 8/11/2017 Chifeng tornado which reportedly swept away well-anchored brick homes?
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I don't think that in 2017, Chifeng tornado reached the intensity of Funing tornado, and tornadoes may have the level of low-end ef4. In fact, the damage in non Di fields brought by Chifeng tornado is far less than that of Funing tornado, and most brick buildings just collapsed
 
MNTornadoGuy said:
Those are some good points about the Tianjin 1969 tornado. Also, has there been any new information on the 8/11/2017 Chifeng tornado which reportedly swept away well-anchored brick homes
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When I was a child, I also help my grandfather build his rural house. We just cover cement on one brick and then put another brick on it. There is no "anchor bolt" thing for these houses as far as I know. Some of the well built houses have vertical steel rebar further reinforce it. That happened on some of the houses in Funing tornado but not Chifeng tornado as far as I see. The EF4 rating was kind of surprise to us but was also reasonable in our current system. That is to say, if a private house totally collapse, it was an EF4 tornado, no matter the quality of the building was.
 
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Y’all i want to apologize for any inconvenience i’ve brung to the thread. i’m really sorry that we ended up having arguments. i’m rlly sorry and i hope we can put that in the past. i’ve been doing some more research on damage and i have some good things to share
 
speedbump305 said:
Y’all i want to apologize for any inconvenience i’ve brung to the thread. i’m really sorry that we ended up having arguments. i’m rlly sorry and i hope we can put that in the past. i’ve been doing some more research on damage and i have some good things to share
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Bruh. You need to just chill. You’re posting a lot, but don’t have much to say.
 
Speaking of violent overseas tornado, I am always wandering 1996 Bangladesh tornado which killed more than 600 people.

Words cannot describe how insane this environment was. This kinds of environment certainly capable of producing violent tornados.
Some of the information of this tornado can be found in this article but I still want to find more. There was real survey about this tornado and showed that it travelled at least 25km and the maximum width reached 1.5KM. Rating of the tornado was F4.

Tornadoes in the districts of Jamalpur and Tangail in Bangladesh

By Thomas W. Schmidlin and Yuichi Ono, Published on 01/01/96
scholarcommons.usf.edu scholarcommons.usf.edu
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speedbump305 said:
true you have a point. i’m deeply sorry for calling Smithville a marginal EF5. it was for sure an Extreme EF5 and i agree. Smithville was more intense than Hackleburg now in my opinion. It’s close, but Smithville wins due to the pipe, trench, softwood tree damage, and the granulated brick. now btw i wasn’t say all the damage was mid range EF5, i was speaking of half the damage, the high end EF5 damage was extremely intense and deserved its recognition. i’m sorry y’all
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Smithville may be stronger than the others but the core damage area was small compared to others. Hackleburg's videos are insane that show a monster. Joplin was the big fear of a violent tornado hitting a populated area and very sobering in the aftermath. Jarrell is what happens when a monster slows down. The Tri-State was like a huge bulldozer.
 
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