On this day 99 years ago, A tornado with a peak width of 1.25 miles wide tracked through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 3,000. The tornado destroyed several towns and cities, most infamous being Murpyhsboro, Desoto, Frankfort, Gorham and Griffin. The tornado was on the ground for around 3 hours and 30 minutes. The tornado was given an F5 rating by Fujita and Grazulis and is widely accepted as one.
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So, a pretty significant outbreak occurred last night from Ohio to Texas. As of the latest, there have been confirmed 3 fatalities. At one point, four tornadoes were on the ground simultaneously. The communities of Winchester in Indiana, and Wapakoneta, Ohio.
The preliminary rating for the Winchester and Wapakoneta tornadoes is EF3 with estimated winds of 155 mph. Possibly will be upgraded to EF4 in the coming days.
I will update you guys every time something noteworthy happens until around 12-1 in the morning! STAY SAFE AND BE PREPARED
So, I have an idea for a little experiment. This is a page that anybody can edit, to see how well HTW users can work together on a story. Vandalism is allowed, but it is a bozo move however. Have fun. Page link
What is your favourite tornado or tornado outbreak on the wiki? It can be your own.
We have another threat already, today we have an ENH risk for NE Kansas and NW Missouri, Tomorrow we have an ENH risk for eastern Oklahoma, NW Arkansas, and southern/south western Missouri. STAY SAFE
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This is gonna be wild, place your bets of what is gonna happen!
Recently noticed this in the comments of a video by Convective Chronicles on YouTube
I can't think of what to type so uhh here's a list
Bolded text means that certain tornado particularly stuck out to me based off of video or photographic evidence and written articles
New Wren MS 2011
Goldsby OK 2011
Chickasha OK 2011
Vilonia AR 2014
Rochelle IL 2015
Sulphur OK 2016
Chapman KS 2016
Canton TX 2017
Linwood KS 2019
Bassfield MS 2020
Ashby MN 2020
Fultondale AL 2021
Happy TX 2021 (if it hit more structures)
Centreville AL 2021
Mullica Hill NJ 2021
Fredericktown MO 2021
Hayti MO 2021
Mayfield KY 2021
Black Creek GA 2022
Salado TX 2022
Andover KS 2022
Cheyanne OK 2023
Rolling Fork MS 2023
Cole OK 2023
Feel free to give opinions or things you'd modify about this in replies
Leap Day two-fer. On February 28th and 29th of 2012, a large and destructive outbreak of tornadoes struck the Great Plains and Ohio Valley. It produced 42 tornadoes, one of which was a violent EF4 that struck the town of Harrisburg, Illinois on the early morning of the 29th, killing 8. As a whole, the outbreak killed 15 and injured 193. Another Leap Day tornado outbreak occurred in 1952. The 1952 outbreak produced only 8 tornadoes and killed 5 with another violent F4 occurring in this separate outbreak.
I would say EF-3 to low end EF-4. What do you think?
Here's an interesting question. If you could experience any tornado or tornado outbreak FROM THE WIKI (as a bystander of course), what would it be? You can choose your own events if you wish.
assuming all events on those 2 wikis (hypothetical tornadoes wiki and hypothetical hurricanes wiki) and any hypothetical derechos that may or may not exist were to occur, excluding all the ridiculous entries with windspeeds >500 mph or tornadoes greater than 5 miles in diameter, could the united states / us and canada be able to both:
survive and remain a stable state(s) for the next 20 years after all events in the wikis (cutoff time: 2200 january 1 00:00 utc) (lets say they would remain stable states otherwise, since the us and canada arguably probably wont exist in 2200 already)
pay for damage costs from all the storms
bonus: could they survive the events of the wikis if the events were condensed into the years 2000-2030 AND events of the wikis that happened outside of the USA (or canada and the usa) now happened in canada and the usa?