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re: Tornado historian Thomas Grazulis with an incredible stat regarding violent tornadoes...
Posted on 4/24/24 at 12:24 pm to RollTide1987
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.
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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 3:27 pm to LegendInMyMind
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1. Smithville, Mississippi was the strongest tornado on 4/27/2011
Granulated debris is no laughing matter for sure.
There were some doozies that day, that Hackleburg-Phil Campbell tornado was ridiculous. So were the Rainsville and Philadelphia, MS storms.
The Tuscaloosa storm kind of overshadowed the rest.
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2. The Mayfield, Kentucky tornado was an EF5
I've heard a lot of folks make this argument, also to a lesser extent, the Rolling Fork, MS tornado last year and that 3 mile wide behemoth in MS in 2020.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 3:58 pm to LegendInMyMind
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The Mayfield, Kentucky tornado was an EF5
frick the NWS Paducah office. Dude was so frazzled he couldn’t even type out the Tornado Emergency 5-10 minutes before it hit. Even Ryan Hall called him out for it. It went out as soon as it hit the candle factory. When it destroys refortified concrete buildings and churches, that’s a problem.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:03 pm to LegendInMyMind
Picked up a town of smithville check made to the USPS in my pasture in northern Alabama the morning after that outbreak
Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:54 pm to LegendInMyMind
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2. The Mayfield, Kentucky tornado was an EF5
Second this one.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:07 pm to LegendInMyMind
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The Mayfield, Kentucky tornado was an EF5
Agreed.
I was taking care of my mother for a month in Mayfield when this storm hit. I had returned to middle TN overnight to retrieve some personal items and want in Mayfield that one night. Thankfully the storm missed my mom's home.
That very night I was laying right where I am now reading the OT storm thread when it hit.
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