One thing I also amazed at was the highly symmetry damage feature in the town of Hackleburg. With wind speed difference between north and south sides of the tornado with a clear defined core as high as 60m/s, the EF3 damage contour extended further north of the center and almost entirely symmetrical to the south side. The NWS survey speech recently on youtube mentioned that weaker fast moving tornado usually don't have weaker side damage at all. So it needs tremendous intensity to do this.I remember i read somewhere that said that the Guin Tornado was likely the strongest tornado to ever hit Alabama. I disagree and that Crown goes to Hackleburg. The Hackleburg Tornado was just an Absolutely Incredible Tornado and had the words “ Extreme “ all over it. It produced some incredibly violent damage, moved at 70+ mph, had a very high injury to fatality ratio, the extreme path length, 72 fatalies. It was just an absolute incredible tornado and was the closet to the Tri State of our life time
The discolouration of the ground along the core of the tornado was obvious ground scouring.
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