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Beautiful photo of Laverne 1991
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Significant Tornado Events
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Warren Faidley is still an active poster on StormTrack, one of the few old-school (pre-Twister) chasers who is.
I always thought this was the scariest looking tornado ever when I was a young kid, along with the 1974 Ash Valley, KS tornado. Something about the way all the plowed up dirt in the air made them look.
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Ah man, last time I've seen that photo was ~20 years ago in one of Warren Faidley's old (and now hard to find and OOP) books on storm chasing, he's got quite a bunch of photos that still aren't available online (or at least easily) after all these years. One of his books had a close up of this tornado and it took on a purple-orange-red/rust hue, it was gorgeous.
Anyone have a photo of this house that was swept away by the Chickasha tornado? Sounds like the strongest EF5 candidate of all of them.
Here are the other two:
Here are the other two:
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That is the same as the home in the third photo I posted. That one is clearly missing nuts on some anchor bolts, while the one in the DI I posted was only mentioned as missing washers. It does however appear to have straight nailed studs and caked mud on one side of the foundation so that could be it. Thinking something might have gotten screwed up on the DAT.
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Sometimes on DAT, they have multiple DIs for the same structure for different views. I think they couldn't attach multiple files at that point.
A "not exceptionally well constructed" house swept away by the Goldsby tornado. Even if this house was not exceptionally well constructed, I am exceptionally confused as to why this tornado wasn't rated EF5.
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I'm guessing it has to do with the contextual damage not being intense enough as the grass around the house is not too scoured, and some of the shrubs are not stripped.
There is one shrub closest to the house that is totally stripped, so my guess is a narrow and intense subvortex was responsible for that damage.
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1974 Brandenburg tornado:
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I was under the impression that it was the new normal that storms were getting stronger because of the effects of global warming. Is this just a non-spoken antithesis for tornadoes and only saying that hurricanes are getting stronger and not Twisters?
I am cornfused...
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I didn't wanna go too far off-topic in the December 10th outbreak thread, but the refrigerator in the tree reminded me of one of the more striking scenes from the 5/31/85 Tionesta F4:
I haven't been able to confirm it yet, but a relative of the people who owned this property said that the woman who died here was struck and killed by the fridge as it hurtled through the air before pancaking into the tree. Incidentally, there was also a refrigerator from a home in Albion that ended up more than half a mile away on the roof of a bank. Still hoping to find a picture of that, for the novelty of it if nothing else.
Some photos from one of the more forgotten tornado events of the 2010's, the 6/5/2010 Lake Township, OH EF4:
Homes leveled or swept off their foundations, including one that lost most of its subflooring
Closer view of the home with the most severe damage. CMU foundation with anchor bolts
What appears to be a tractor tangled up in a partially debarked tree
A vehicle pretty much crushed in half
The Lake Township Police Department was destroyed as well as about half of its fleet of police vehicles.
Homes leveled or swept off their foundations, including one that lost most of its subflooring
Closer view of the home with the most severe damage. CMU foundation with anchor bolts
What appears to be a tractor tangled up in a partially debarked tree
A vehicle pretty much crushed in half
The Lake Township Police Department was destroyed as well as about half of its fleet of police vehicles.
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What is it with Ohio and nighttime (E)F4s? Cincinnati 1999, Dayton 2019, and had totally forgotten about this one.
Yeah this one was the last EF4 in Ohio prior to Dayton 2019 (though I have some suspicions about Moscow, OH 2012). I remember being up that night watching the radar. The cell that dropped this looked like a disorganized blob of convection to my untrained eyes at the time, and I remember thinking that nothing too bad would happen. Man was I wrong.
Also Harrison, OH 1990
Also the Millbury/Lake Township, OH tornado produced some of the more intense damage to a school building that I’ve seen. Was given an EF3 rating, but school busses were thrown considerable distances, and debris from the structure was wind-rowed, which makes me think it may have been a little stronger than EF3 at that location. The EF4 rating was actually based on those homes that were swept away pictured above.