Talk:The nws mess ups/@comment-27987536-20170201235012

The El Reno 2013 tornado seems to be a tossup. I wonder if it had something to do with the most intense vortices not making actual contact with the ground or something like that. If 300 mph would have touched the ground there would have been an uplift of at least several inches or more of soil removed from the ground. Even in the most largest and intense tornadoes, EF5 damage may only represent about 1 mile long and less than 150 yards wide. As we know the Sherman tornado of 1896 took on a very narrow appearance but probably did damage that was probably the most intense ever documented. The Jarrell tornado from 1997 is right up there with it, as it left a 1/4 to a 1/2 mile wide of F5 intensity damage that was unrecognizable.