Later today I'll restart the search. Might go onto r/vancouver and ask if anyone in that subreddit's seen it.
Someone else has gotta do it (the Reddit thing - it's r/vancouverwa btw). Got flat banned from Reddit by my brother so yea
Oh! I'd also like to know about that F3 from the Enigma Outbreak which is also on the list.
I dunno why I listed it that way tbh - it's the F4 (possibly F5) that formed south of Cartersville and struck near Cagle, Tate, Jasper and Mount Oglethorpe. The damage swath was actually over three miles wide at times, but some of that was downbursts. The tornado itself may've been up to two miles wide and is notable for having completely swept away what were described as large, well-constructed homes in some of the wealthier areas in the region. IIRC the "official" death toll was around 20 but in reality was probably 30+. Some of the victims were reportedly hurled over half a mile and apparently mile after mile of forest was just obliterated.
I also read on Stormtrack from you that a tornado in Kansas in the 30s was calculated as having a path width of SEVEN MILES. Boy, if that was true, I wonder what the funnel looked like.
BTW, have you heard anything substantiating the claim that an infant was transported across 5 counties in the 1984 Carolinas outbreak?
There's also the Rockingham-Philadelphia, NC F4 (likely F5) that had a detailed survey done by someone a couple days after the event and it more or less obliterated forests and swept away large grain/water mills and the like.
Hmm.. I have no idea what I may've been referring to. I vaguely recall an event in Oklahoma in like 1930 or 1931 or something that supposedly had a damage swath 5-7 miles wide, but that's because it was multiple tornadoes in close proximity, probably with downbursts and such in between. There was a similar event in Iowa once, but for the life of me I can't remember the year.
No, but that seems like another one of those stories that seems to pop up in major events. A bit like the car that was supposedly carried into the next county or the slab foundation that was pulled clean out of the ground - some kind of combination of miscommunication, misinterpretation of facts and plain ol' urban legend.
Yeah, I'd give anything to have good photos (or at least really detailed information) on the entire event to get a better sense of its true scale and intensity. Just based on what we do know, all four of the F4 tornadoes sound like they could've possibly warranted F5 ratings if we had more evidence to justify it. The Maynard-Blountsville, GA F3 may've also been in that sort of F4+ range, and there are a bunch of other tornadoes for which we just don't have much info at all, but we know just enough to know they were probably very significant (which is one of the reasons I'd like to revisit it someday).
That was the Blair OK F4 tornado/downburst family of 16 Jun 1928. Local media referred to the combined event as being seven miles in width, per damages.
That's the one - I was a few years off. Something similar (multiple tornadoes + downbursts in close proximity) happened near Greensburg the same day, though there wouldn't have been much in the way to record damage.
Interestingly, a man, the farmer William Keeler, caught in the Greensburg F2+ family on the same date actually was inside the circulation and subsequently provided an account that was republished by Snowden D. Flora’s Tornadoes of the United States (1953). His was one of the earliest reports taken from inside a tornado by a survivor. Thomas P. Grazulis also mentions that one or more tornadoes from the same family literally ploughed the earth to such a depth (approximately six feet, according to The Tornado: Nature’s Ultimate Windstorm, p. 14) that a horse could be safely buried, according to local media.
I ran the numbers. 32 F4+, 9 F5.
Add 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville, 4/3/74 and 4/27/11 you'll see that Mississippi and northern Alabama are the Armageddon zones. Georgia doesn't get gollywhopped by tornadoes as much, which is what makes stuff like 1884 unique. It's basically 4/27/11 but shifted further east.
I'd like to see up a mashup comparing 4/20/1920, 4/3/74 and 4/2711 but specifically the long-tracked 4s and 5s that went through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Pretty sure some have identical/overlapping paths.
