Nightking2021
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Certainly!it did?
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Certainly!it did?
Almost as intense as Charles City! lolThat's fine and all, but when are we gonna acknowledge that Ruskin Heights was clearly the most intense tornado the Earth has ever seen?
I also forgot there was an engineer that estimated the wind speeds in the 1896 St. Louis - East St. Louis tornado at 400-500 mph on the basis of a 2x4 being driven through a plate girder of the Eads bridge. So I guess there's more competition than I thought.Yes! Thank you
Almost as intense as Charles City! lol
Oh there's plenty of competition. According to the 1965 book McGraw-Hill Meteorology Third Edition, winds of "300-500 mph" are required to cause the most intense instances of damage:I also forgot there was an engineer that estimated the wind speeds in the 1896 St. Louis - East St. Louis tornado at 400-500 mph on the basis of a 2x4 being driven through a plate girder of the Eads bridge. So I guess there's more competition than I thought.
I think it hit EF5 intensity (or at least its maxima) when it crossed over into Missouri, 15 of its 21 fatalities were in the Racine area and automobiles were reportedly thrown up to half a mile in places.Picher was likely an EF5 at one point to be honest. Vegetation damage was very high-end.
Wow!!! That aerial view screams higher end tornado event. I would rate it high-end EF4 based on the contextual evidence. It certainly reached EF5 intensity.Here are the most impressive vegetation damage pictures that I could find from the Picher Tornado
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I think it hit EF5 intensity (or at least its maxima) when it crossed over into Missouri, 15 of its 21 fatalities were in the Racine area and automobiles were reportedly thrown up to half a mile in places.
Also, Picher, OK reminds me of Manchester, SD in the sense of it being another instance of a natural disaster-induced ghost town, as the tornado threw all the waste from the towns lead and zinc mines that was dangerously close to the neighborhoods all over them, effectively forcing the residents to abandon it not long after.
Source for claims about tornado: https://www.weather.gov/sgf/events_2008may10
Footage of the Red Rock tornado. An incredible horizontal vortex is visible on this thing:
Aside from being 2+ miles wide, what exactly about Bassfield made it really impressive? I haven't reviewed much damage pics from it.Picher was already being abandoned due to contamination from the mine tailings, the tornado just (greatly) accelerated the process.
Some of those pictures posted above by @Marshal79344 show pretty impressive tree damage (snapping/debarking), similar to the degree we've just been discussing in the context of the recent Greensboro/Brent tornado and the 2020 Bassfield, MS tornado.
The aerial view damage from Picher reminds me a lot of the aerial view of tornado damage from the Tuscaloosa tornado on 4/27. I think the Picher tornado had a width of approximately a mile-wide so almost of similar size too.Here are the most impressive vegetation damage pictures that I could find from the Picher Tornado
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Aside from being 2+ miles wide, what exactly about Bassfield made it really impressive? I haven't reviewed much damage pics from it.