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That’s Cabot AR from 1976.I found this on a news station from PA covering the 5/31/85 event. The caption simply says "tornado north of Pittsburgh, 1985" so I'm not sure which one this is. Whichever of the tornadoes came closet to Pittsburg, I suppose. For some reason I'm thinking it was Atlantic but not sure.
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GREATEST TORNADO THREAT WILL LIKELY EXIST ACROSS ERN IA AND INTO SRN WI/NRN
IL...NEAR THE SURFACE LOW AND WARM FRONT WHERE LOW-LEVEL SHEAR WILL BE MAXIMIZED.
That was Wisconsin's largest April outbreak on record with 15 tornadoes in the state, but it wasn't quite as big as it potentially could have been. Not sure exactly what happened (other than just some Broyles hype), but the forecast the day before called for it to affect areas all the way down to and even a little south of the I-80 corridor in Illinois, but Wisconsin was basically unscathed everywhere south of that Arkdale-Cottonville storm with just very isolated wind and hail reports from there down into Illinois.
Storm Prediction Center Apr 9, 2011 1730 UTC Day 2 Convective Outlook
Severe weather, tornado, thunderstorm, fire weather, storm report, tornado watch, severe thunderstorm watch, mesoscale discussion, convective outlook products from the Storm Prediction Center.www.spc.noaa.gov
Note this snippet from the text:
Not so much...
I was living in Milwaukee at the time (actually close to one of the few severe reports in southern Wisconsin); here's some video I took as the storms rolled in that evening:
Wikipedia:
"It was associated with six satellite tornadoes, including two simultaneous in Buena Vista County and four simultaneous in Pocahontas County, with five tornadoes on the ground at one time from 02:56–02:58 UTC. This tornado took a very erratic path, turning eastward and northward along a northeasterly track, producing an unusual and varying debris field; the track ended just west-southwest of Havelock."
6 satellites? Almost like a multivortex mesocyclone or something.Let's not forget about the day previous, with the very long tracked Pocahontas EF3 and it's many many satellites.
Man, the more stuff I read about that happened that year the more it's clear that 2011 was the year of the tornado (the most impressive year in a long, long time).Let's not forget about the day previous, with the very long tracked Pocahontas EF3 and it's many many satellites.
F3? Yeah, looks worse than that....
Nice work! Especially love the Brandenburg drawing.Here are some of my drawings of tornadoesView attachment 15318View attachment 15319View attachment 15320View attachment 15321View attachment 15322View attachment 15323View attachment 15324
Guin also has no known photographs, even worse that it occurred at night. Of course, it was likely a violent wedge also like Hackleburg or the Tri-State but no way to know for sure.Nice work! Especially love the Brandenburg drawing.
The Tri-State one is pretty interesting to me too; since there's no photographs of the tornado (obviously) all we can do is speculate about what the storm might have looked like, though based on survivor accounts I've always thought it probably had an appearance similar to Hackleburg. Anyhow, welcome to the forums!
Brandenburg doesn't have any known photographs either unless I've missed one.Guin also has no known photographs, even worse that it occurred at night. Of course, it was likely a violent wedge also like Hackleburg or the Tri-State but no way to know for sure.
I'm sure there's a photograph out there of the Tri-State in someone's attic or buried in some local archives that likely will never be found, shame really.
Brandenburg doesn't have any known photographs either unless I've missed one.
Speaking of violent 70's tornadoes, I was going through Twitter on a Mass violent tornado binge when this post caught my eye:
Is that an actual photo of the Windsor Locks F4? Lord knows but I did a Google image search and it turned up no matches.
Ah......Darn it. Thought I had something.At first I thought it was DePauw what with the lack of a clear condensation funnel, but Yandex tells me it's Xenia:
EDIT: Here's a link with it the pic in a slideshow:
PHOTOS: 25 must-see images showing the destruction of the 1974 Xenia tornado
A collection of photographs from the Dayton Daily News archive show the damage from a tornado left in Xenia on April 3, 1974. The F-5 tornado killed 33 people and injured more than 1,300.www.daytondailynews.com