Tornado Anniversaries

[Brice W]

I’ve looked through a few threads and saw some talks about the anniversaries of tornadoes. I thought it would be fun to start a thread of this, we can also learn more about tornadoes that could be unheard of. So got at it! I’m sure this day had some crazy tornado event!!

 

[MichelleH]

Yes, today is the 30th anniversary of the F4 tornado from March 27, 1994 that hit Piedmont, Alabama and destroyed Goshen United Methodist Church. I think 22 were killed, with 20 deaths in the church, including the pastor's 4-year-old daughter.

 

[akt1985]

Yes, today is the 30th anniversary of the F4 tornado from March 27, 1994 that hit Piedmont, Alabama and destroyed Goshen United Methodist Church. I think 22 were killed, with 20 deaths in the church, including the pastor's 4-year-old daughter.

Goshen UMC came close to getting hit again on 4/27/11

 

[catatonia]

Today is the 40th anniversary of the great Carolina outbreak.

 

[Brice W]

Today is the 40th anniversary of the great Carolina outbreak.

The deadliest of this outbreak was an F4 that killed 16. And I think there was a couple more F4s too, crazy day for sure.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Ahead of the 1-year anniversary of the 3/31/23 outbreak, NWS Quad Cities has put out a video breaking down the setup for the outbreak in their CWA, including the Keota etc tornado family. One of the frame grabs I sent them is in the graphic at 4 minutes (and on the thumbnail).



I was diving a little bit into the archived SPC data earlier this week, and DVN's summary here jives with my impression that this event was surprisingly thermodynamically driven for an early-season Midwest setup. While certainly more than adequate for significant tornadoes given the other conditions in place, the low-level shear (at least in terms of raw SRH values) in this area wasn't jaw-dropping by high-risk, violent tornado outbreak standards. What really put this over the top IMO was the 3CAPE and lapse rates, as well as nearly optimal streamwise vorticity ingestion per the hodograph allowed for maximal use of what spin there was in the atmosphere.

 

[Tennie]

Today is the 25 anniversary of the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak.

If anyone here personally witnessed that event, then please share your experiences here!

 

[JPWX]

Here's the May 3rd 1999 supercell.

 

[Maxis_s]

A very, very good youtuber who doesn't do weather videos made a video on Moore. Didn't know where to post it, and haven't watched it yet but I thought I'd share it.

 

[Tennie]

A very, very good youtuber who doesn't do weather videos made a video on Moore. Didn't know where to post it, and haven't watched it yet but I thought I'd share it.

I've actually watched some of his videos before, and they're quite good! I'll have to remember to check this one out when I get a chance to do so!