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Tornado historian Thomas Grazulis with an incredible stat regarding violent tornadoes...
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:46 am
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:46 am
And as ABC 33/40 Meteorologist James Spann points out on his Facebook page, it has also been 3,992 days since the last recorded EF5 tornado occurred.
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Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:47 am to RollTide1987
It is all the windmills that are keeping them from forming!
This post was edited on 4/24/24 at 11:49 am
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:48 am to RollTide1987
What about Category 6 hurricanes?
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:48 am to RollTide1987
What does it mean?
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:48 am to RollTide1987
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it has also been 3,992 days since the last recorded EF5 tornado occurred.
Climate change is causing this.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:49 am to RollTide1987
You see, that's how climate change works. It makes the least amount of tornados and that's why it's dangerous.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:53 am to RollTide1987
Don't play with fate like that. We are now doomed.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:56 am to goofball
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Don't play with fate like that. We are now doomed.
We're way overdue for a violent tornado outbreak in the United States so it's going to happen eventually. I'm fairly certain this is the longest drought without an EF5 we have had since the Fujita scale was first created.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 12:24 pm to RollTide1987
Three things I will go to the grave believing:
1. Smithville, Mississippi was the strongest tornado on 4/27/2011
2. The Mayfield, Kentucky tornado was an EF5
3. Hurricane Idalia did not make landfall on the Big Bend of Florida as a Major Hurricane
We've almost gotten to the point that we've moved the goal posts so much in regards to what constitutes an EF5 tornado that making comparisons to the historical record is pointless.
1. Smithville, Mississippi was the strongest tornado on 4/27/2011
2. The Mayfield, Kentucky tornado was an EF5
3. Hurricane Idalia did not make landfall on the Big Bend of Florida as a Major Hurricane
We've almost gotten to the point that we've moved the goal posts so much in regards to what constitutes an EF5 tornado that making comparisons to the historical record is pointless.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 12:27 pm to RollTide1987
What separates a “tornado” from a “violent tornado”?
Everyone I have ever known that was in any tornado says they are all violent.
Everyone I have ever known that was in any tornado says they are all violent.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 12:31 pm to Sidicous
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What separates a “tornado” from a “violent tornado”?
It's a meteorological term that distinguishes weaker tornadoes from more powerful ones. We do the same thing for hurricanes. Typically a hurricane is considered "violent" after it reaches Category 3 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Tornadoes are similarly considered "violent" once they reach EF4 status. Though there are those who lump EF3 tornadoes under that moniker as well.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 12:34 pm to Helo
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What about Category 6 hurricanes?
You mean EFUs?
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:11 pm to RollTide1987
I am sure if you are on the bad end of a tornado, you wouldn’t give two shits what “catagory” it is….
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:15 pm to Lake08
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I am sure if you are on the bad end of a tornado, you wouldn’t give two shits what “catagory” it is….
This is quite true and, considering I witnessed firsthand the devastation of the April 27, 2011 tornado that hit Tuscaloosa, I know this all too well from experience. However, that does not belie the fact that these terms are in usage in the meteorological and storm chasing community to distinguish the degrees of power these storms have.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:18 pm to Lake08
So what do we do when an EF3 wants to identify as an EF5?
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:37 pm to LegendInMyMind
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1. Smithville, Mississippi was the strongest tornado on 4/27/2011
Do you mean " the strongest that day" or " strongest ever" ?
We watched the April,3,1974 tornado that hit Tanner, Alabama and continued through Capshaw and Harvest..from a few miles away.
It was insane. You could see the debris flying up around it.
You could distinguish what was sheet metal, like roof material or mobile homes from everything else.
That day, before things started firing off, the air felt dangerous.
Parents came and got us from school, the sky was so dark that street lights were coming on at lunchtime and it didn't even start raining until around nighttime.
The tornado hit Tanner about 30 minutes before dark. From our POV it took up 1/3 of the sky. It was massive.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:40 pm to auggie
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Do you mean " the strongest that day" or " strongest ever" ?
I think he means "that day" judging by the language he used. And I can't but agree with him. Though there are arguments to be made for it being one of the all-time strongest tornadoes on record. However, I think the Jarrell, Texas tornado takes the cake for strongest ever. Look at the before and after pictures of that neighborhood it wiped out. Only pieces of body parts were found of the victims. No one who was home that afternoon survived and all of the victims had to be ID'd using DNA and bone fragments.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:42 pm to RollTide1987
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it has also been 3,992 days since the last recorded EF5 tornado occurred.
Damn. I didn't realize that the Moore, OK was the last confirmed EF5.
Time flies.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:55 pm to RollTide1987
Hmm, yeah, memories of the April 2011 tornadoes in AL. I drove south that morning to Auburn and could see the sky behind me getting darker as the sun rose.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 1:59 pm to Smeg
quote:Tornados make a lot of wind, which cools off the earth and contributing more to climate change. We need to send Ukraine $60 Billion more to stop this cycle!
that's how climate change works. It makes the least amount of tornados and that's why it's dangerous.
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