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locomusic01
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They're just ruts from a tractor - you can see one of its rear wheels off to the right. I've found lots of reports of severe crop damage but nothing conclusive re: ground scouring. Apparently some of the yards in the Tottenham area (near the home I posted a while back that was blown away except for a toilet) were "torn up" but that's kinda ambiguous.Those brown patches in the grass; is that scouring or just partially plowed-grass? Also, the descriptions of this thing blasting trees down to stumps and severe ground scouring reminds me of some of the accounts in Missouri and Illinois of the Tri-State tornado, and of course, just like that tornado, it's also hard to find photographs of F4-F5 damage with this tornado.
This area here made me wonder a bit, but it's hard to tell for sure what it shows:
That's basically the path the center of the tornado took, and probably about the same width as the core, but it's hard to imagine it being that extreme. Especially given the 55-60 mph forward speed and the relative lack of debris sources upstream (a few houses were demolished but they're pretty sparse). On the other hand, a guy who lived in the area said that he didn't remember there being anything like that before the tornado but he couldn't say for sure. I dunno.