2022年8月3日 · Even looking at the damage paths of tornados like 2013 Moore, you will see the areas classified as “EF5” are incredible narrow and don’t last long. Since the EF scale is based on damage, a tornado of EF5 strength will have to get lucky and impact an …

This tornado was a part of the may 21-26, 2011 outbreak sequence which spawned the infamous Joplin EF5 which is a major factor which contributed to why this tornado may have been forgotten. And just shy of a month earlier the 2011 super outbreak happened which was infamous for its own reasons you probably already know about.

If a tornado did have >318 mph winds, it would still likely just do EF5 level damage, or it might not even do that given an El Reno 2013 type scenario. For a new category to be legitimately considered by surveyors, the damage would need to be beyond the high-end EF5 realm (Jarrell, Bakersfield Valley, Philadelphia, etc).

Yeah, the Hackleburg EF5 is absolutely asinine. I think its the most powerful Tornado of all time, it traveled 132 Miles and lasted 2-1/2 hours, maintaining High end EF4/EF5 intensity for close to TWO HOURS. All while traveling at a mind boggling 70mph at its peak

2021年12月17日 · You can have a 400mph Tornado hit a mobile home development, and the max damage that would be rated is an EF-2 soley based on the damage to the mobile homes. This is not the first time there has been an F5/EF-5 drought. After the Bridgecreek-Moore F5 in 1999, there were no F5/EF5 tornadoes until 2007.

We have most definitely had tornadoes reach and exceed EF5 strength since 2013. People get really wrapped up in the ratings, but realistically, a high-end EF4 isn't much different from an EF5. For example, Rochelle in 2015 was rated a 200mph EF4 vs the 2013 Moore Tornado which was rated as a 210mph EF5.

The Smithville EF5 was the one tornado that never got a tornado emergency of the four EF5 twisters that day... even the areas struck by the Rainsville Tornado got one, but the warnings never caught onto the massive wedge that just ambushed Smithville. Granulation. That word alone explains how horrifying this thing was. 60+ MPH.

Bassfield 2020 was probably the closest recent tornado to get an EF5 rating All in all, there's a lot of recency-bias for this question and I'm not sure a single person that has tracked tornadoes since 2013 would agree with Rolling Forks or Matador being the closest EF5 since Moore 2013.

The building wasn’t even subjected to the worst windspeeds in the tornado, and the tornado also hit at night, when there were only 30 people in the building. The authors of the survey say that there would have been MANY casualties if the tornado hit during business hours. Building codes also differ from building to building and region to region.

2023年5月14日 · Post after post about some past EF4 or EF5 tornado. I don’t see that being done for any EF0s or EF1s. If that’s not enough proof for you go to YouTube. I promise you there’s no EF1 tornado footage getting the same amount of views and EF5 does. I’ll say it right out front that I’d rather see footage of a large, wedge tornado than a EF0.