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Tornado Anniversaries

Brice W

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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 go at it! I’m sure this day had some crazy tornado event!!
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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Today is the 25 anniversary of the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak.

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If anyone here personally witnessed that event, then please share your experiences here!
 
Here's the May 3rd 1999 supercell.
 

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Maxis_s said:

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.
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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!
 
While we're all awaiting the severe weather event of tomorrow-Saturday, we should also remember that today is the 35th anniversary of the tornado outbreak that produced multiple tornadoes across the Plains, most infamously the F5 that struck Hesston, Kansas. Here is an excellent video (runtime 14:35) that goes over that event:

 
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While we're all awaiting the severe weather event of tomorrow-Saturday, we should also remember that today is the 35th anniversary of the tornado outbreak that produced multiple tornadoes across the Plains, most infamously the F5 that struck Hesston, Kansas. Here is an excellent video (runtime 14:35) that goes over that event:

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This is one of the better videos I’ve seen from this tornado.
 
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous 3/18/1925 outbreak that birthed the Tri-State Tornado, to this day still the deadliest tornado in American history at 695 dead (though an argument could be made for the 1840 Natchez tornado, due to a lot of potential deaths not being counted for various reasons). The total from this outbreak was 747, making it the deadliest single tornado day in American history. Perhaps the only way we could ever see that number exceeded would be to have a violent tornado go through a populated/crowded area without adequate warning, and let's all pray that we never witness anything of that nature in our lifetime!
 
Today is the 93rd anniversary of the 3/21/1932 outbreak, the deadliest in Alabama history with at least 268 recognized deaths. It is also one of the hardest to study for various reasons--for example, it's likely that the actual death toll is likely even higher (perhaps far more so), but for a variety of reasons those deaths were not properly documented enough to confirm them as storm victims.

The Alabama Weather blog just posted an article on it earlier today, including an old Public Information Statement from the late J.B. Elliott (which is well worth a read):

OTD in 1932: Alabama’s Deadliest Tornado Outbreak : The Alabama Weather Blog

www.alabamawx.com www.alabamawx.com
 
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