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I haven't been able to find many damage photos from this tornado, aside from ground spirals and some general destruction to the town.
These two pics were taken near where the probe was placed, you can also notice the mangled white car mentioned by pohnpei.
There is a two-story white house near this location which was completely obliterated.
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The moment the tornado hit the house and the probe, a violent drillbit-like tornado
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Following pics were photographed between 2011 and 2013 in the center of the once-stood small town Manchester. Though it's already been ten years, these completely debarked and twisted hardwood trees were still visble
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A wide angle view of the whole meso
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These two pics were taken near where the probe was placed, you can also notice the mangled white car mentioned by pohnpei.
There is a two-story white house near this location which was completely obliterated.
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The moment the tornado hit the house and the probe, a violent drillbit-like tornado
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Following pics were photographed between 2011 and 2013 in the center of the once-stood small town Manchester. Though it's already been ten years, these completely debarked and twisted hardwood trees were still visble
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A wide angle view of the whole meso
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Wow that thing has a gorgeous mesocyclone and wall cloud structure, looks like a mushroom. Also, do you know if there's any photographs of the scoured asphalt?
 
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These two pics were taken near where the probe was placed, you can also notice the mangled white car mentioned by pohnpei.
There is a two-story white house near this location which was completely obliterated.
View attachment 9413
View attachment 9415
The moment the tornado hit the house and the probe, a violent drillbit-like tornado
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Following pics were photographed between 2011 and 2013 in the center of the once-stood small town Manchester. Though it's already been ten years, these completely debarked and twisted hardwood trees were still visble
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A wide angle view of the whole meso
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Interesting article on tornado ghost towns, Manchester is the first mentioned.

 
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Does anyone here know of any photographs involving the Clyde, TX tornado of 1938? It seems very intense but I haven't had luck finding much in the way of visual documentation on it.
 
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Today's the twenty-second anniversary of the deadly 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado. It was this event that really got me interested in weather especially tornadoes, I even did a school science project on it.



This home video is in my opinion the best of the storm in it's wedge phase as it moved through Bridge Creek and along the I-44 turnpike towards Moore and OKC. You can see the complete structure of the supercell and wall cloud as well as debris floating in air.
 

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Does anyone here know of any photographs involving the Clyde, TX tornado of 1938? It seems very intense but I haven't had luck finding much in the way of visual documentation on it.


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Well, this sucks. Tried really hard to get my article done in time for today's anniversary, but apparently I actually need to work if I wanna do cool stuff like pay bills and whatnot. I'm close now, but I've been working on it since 6 and my brain's getting mushy. I will have it posted at some point tomorrow, though.

I suppose the outbreak technically didn't end until May 5 anyway, so I'm still in the ballpark lol

In the meantime, one of my favorite anecdotes I came across in my research: I spoke to a guy whose home in Midwest City was destroyed. He was thrown through the air and thought for sure he was going to die, and then.. he landed (relatively) safely in a swimming pool about a block away. Sometimes tornadoes make no sense. Bummed that he didn't have any pictures of the pool though.
 
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A drillbit, likely violent tornado occurred on rural farmlands in Williamson IA on 8/2/2015, this tornado was only rated EF1 for causing minor damage to heavy-loaded silos and flipped farm equipments. However, much alike Dalton and Wilkin EF4, this one left some deep ground scars in cornfields and even maybe some ground scouring, centerline was highly visble as well. Hardwood trees close to the damage site were snapped off from the base and suffered some slight debarking. Though the tornado had some low-quality video, the violent motion was quiet evident. Imagine this one would have got more attention nowadays since there're more chasers and it might have become the "tornado of the year".
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I'll recommend this video
 

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It's official: this thread has hit 200 pages. More than double the old one (I think it only got to 70-80 pages). Amazing to think that this thread didn't really take off until May of 2020 (not long after I made a comment about the Xenia tornado #humblebrag) , amazing how far things have come. Hopefully we don't run out of tornado events to discuss. Lol.
Seriously though, all of you deserve credit for getting this thread back to what it used to be before the old one went down years ago. Really awesome.
 
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I thought that this view of the Greensboro - Brent - Centreville EF3 from March 25th, 2021 shortly after it touched down was very, very interesting. I am certain that this tornado was violent.

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There were two instances in particular where I believe that an intensity of EF4 may have been reached. First, the tornado touched down large and intense. It immediately began doing at least EF3 damage within seconds of touchdown. Just north-northeast of touchdown, the tornado leveled a poorly-built home and produced some tree debarking nearby. This debarking is consistent with some of the other lower-bound EF4's that I have seen.

A photo from this area

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The next area of likely violent-intensity damage was reached in the rural forests of Bibb County, about 15 miles from Brent - Centreville. where remote sensing detected an area of nearly 100% treefall. Some photos I found online from this area show many of the trees snapped very close to the ground over a very wide swath.

Satellite imagery of the affected area. The area with total blowdown is on bottom left.

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Some ground photos from this area

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Some additional finds from this outbreak I found very, very cool:

The Ohatchee EF3 Tornado (the one that killed 5) crossing the Coosa River

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This ring video of the Eagle Point area EF3 (the tornado before Ohatchee) is absolutely insane
 
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I also found this image of tree damage from the Chapman Tornado of 2016View attachment 9480
This Chapman photo, wow you can see scoured grass and partially scoured hillside topsoil, reminds me somewhat of Andover.
The tree debarking here reminds me of quite a bit Dixie events, but no single one in particular.
Yet more proof Chapman should have been rated EF5.
 
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