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re: This is why the tornado grading scale needs to be changed…
Posted on 5/1/24 at 6:35 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/1/24 at 6:35 pm to RollTide1987
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The tornado had a gate-to-gate velocity reading of 260 MPH.
That’s not necessarily a great method for rating them either because winds like that may not have translated to the surface. Going by damage allows the rating to be based on what was actually happening at the surface rather than hundreds or thousands of feet up. Radar estimated wind speeds are also impacted by how close the storm is to the radar site (i.e. the height of the radar beam).
This post was edited on 5/1/24 at 6:37 pm
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