Is this yours? Trying to work out whether old-timey events were one tornado or a family can be kind of a nightmare, but I've always thought it'd be a fun project. VLT tornadoes are fascinating and we don't really have much reliable information on most of them.VERY LONG TRACK TORNADOES PRE-2000
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It is indeed mine lmaoIs this yours? Trying to work out whether old-timey events were one tornado or a family can be kind of a nightmare, but I've always thought it'd be a fun project. VLT tornadoes are fascinating and we don't really have much reliable information on most of them.
Edit: Also, my brain is fried today and I confused Grinnell w/Pomeroy. Took me entirely too long to figure out why the path looked so much different from mine lol
Edit 2: Actually, on second thought, the track is really quite similar aside from the place names + overall length.
Don't have many good photos handy, but:Are there any photos of the homes that "literally vanished" from the Dunlap tornado #2 a.k.a. the Sunnyside Subdivision tornado
Yeah, there's easily 5 F5s from that day. It's ridiculously underrated.I have a hard time believing that out of the 18 F4 tornadoes during the Palm Sunday outbreak there wasn’t at least 1 that caused F5 damage. A couple of which I believe were originally rated F5 before being dropped for various odd reasons.
Are there any photos of the possible F5 damage from Sheridan (IN) and Rainbow Lake (IN), Manitou Beach (MI)Sunnyside, Toledo and Pittsfield were 100% F5s IMO. You could make a pretty good case for Sheridan, Manitou Beach and/or Rainbow Lake, too.
Been a little under the weather but probably tomorrow I'll post what I have. I think there's stuff from some of the other tornadoes I've been meaning to post anyway. Someday I need to go through my folder of unsorted/unlabeled Palm Sunday pictures and see if I can figure out where they're from as well.Are there any photos of the possible F5 damage from Sheridan (IN) and Rainbow Lake (IN), Manitou Beach (MI)
Speaking of Grinnell, it's weird how many people I've come across who were there and then later went on to experience another notable violent tornado. In my Enigma Outbreak article I wrote about a guy who saw both Grinnell and the Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC F4+. One of the accounts I found while researching New Richmond came from a guy who'd previously had both his legs broken at Grinnell. There was a man who lost.. a sister I think? or maybe a wife? in Grinnell and then was killed himself in Pomeroy 1893. I think there were one or two others as well but I can't remember them off-hand.Found a collection of damage photographs from the Grinnell, Iowa tornado of 1882:
Grinnell's interesting because Grazulis thinks it's the earliest F5 that can be rated as such given the amount of damage photographs from it.Been a little under the weather but probably tomorrow I'll post what I have. I think there's stuff from some of the other tornadoes I've been meaning to post anyway. Someday I need to go through my folder of unsorted/unlabeled Palm Sunday pictures and see if I can figure out where they're from as well.
Speaking of Grinnell, it's weird how many people I've come across who were there and then later went on to experience another notable violent tornado. In my Enigma Outbreak article I wrote about a guy who saw both Grinnell and the Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC F4+. One of the accounts I found while researching New Richmond came from a guy who'd previously had both his legs broken at Grinnell. There was a man who lost.. a sister I think? or maybe a wife? in Grinnell and then was killed himself in Pomeroy 1893. I think there were one or two others as well but I can't remember them off-hand.
I didn't really know what I was doing back then so my search was far from exhaustive. Unfortunately if photos do exist they're probably in some random university collection or somewhere else where no one will ever get to see them.Grinnell's interesting because Grazulis thinks it's the earliest F5 that can be rated as such given the amount of damage photographs from it.
Yeah, apparently the guy who saw damage from Rockingham-Philadelphia Church, NC said that damage from it was worse than Grinnell, which REALLY makes me wish there was available photographs from 1884. I'm sure there's some buried in archives or newspapers.com somewhere I just haven't thought to look for yet or might be lost forever, who knows?
Seems like lots of historic Dixie outbreaks are poorly documented; I'm sure occurring in remote, rural areas and being rain-wrapped might play a role but there's probably other reasons I haven't thought of.I didn't really know what I was doing back then so my search was far from exhaustive. Unfortunately if photos do exist they're probably in some random university collection or somewhere else where no one will ever get to see them.
And no I'm definitely not bitter at all.