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re: Today marks the 13th anniversary of the start of the April 25-28, 2011 Super Outbreak
Posted on 4/25/24 at 12:01 pm to CleverUserName
Posted on 4/25/24 at 12:01 pm to CleverUserName
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I remember looking at my weather radar app that day and seeing the EF5 on radar that hit Smithville, MS head on. It was so clear on radar a child could point out where it was.
If you want to read one of the best tornado surveys out there, go give Tornado Talk a couple bucks on Patreon. A kid named Nelson Tucker (I think he was 17 at the time he did the survey) put together maybe the best survey I've read on the Smithville tornado. I'm almost positive it is behind their paywall, though. They do good work over there and have a large catalogue of storm and event surveys now.
This was from a home that just missed a direct hit from the Smithville, MS tornado, it still took some damage. The curtains were visible outside the home, tattered, but flapping in the breeze.
This post was edited on 4/25/24 at 12:06 pm
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Posted on 4/25/24 at 12:29 pm to LegendInMyMind
Based on the damage survey and the ground scouring of multiple feet in some areas.. the winds of that tornado was estimated 300 plus.
It takes 200 MPH winds to be considered EF5.
So basically, this tornado was the jump beyond from a basic EF5 the same that a jump is from a full strength EF1 to borderline EF2 is to a EF5. So take in consideration how much worse an EF5 is than a strong EF1- base EF2, and make that same jump from a base EF5 into what that tornado was.
Astounding that only 16 people died in Smithville.
It takes 200 MPH winds to be considered EF5.
So basically, this tornado was the jump beyond from a basic EF5 the same that a jump is from a full strength EF1 to borderline EF2 is to a EF5. So take in consideration how much worse an EF5 is than a strong EF1- base EF2, and make that same jump from a base EF5 into what that tornado was.
Astounding that only 16 people died in Smithville.
This post was edited on 4/25/24 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 4/25/24 at 2:00 pm to LegendInMyMind
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This was from a home that just missed a direct hit from the Smithville, MS tornado, it still took some damage. The curtains were visible outside the home, tattered, but flapping in the breeze.
That happened to the house we had just moved from in Tulsa. Tornado lifted the roof, sucked out the curtains, then dropped the roof. Next morning the curtains are outside the house. Not good. Tornado debris plugged the drainage and caused the house to flood too. Today it is a vacant lot that cannot be built on. Nothing lasts forever.
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