Couple of updates regarding the other day's chase:
1. The tornado that hit us was an EF1, max winds of ~110mph. The messed up part is that it formed less than a mile before it hit us and dissipated less than a mile after. That fucker JDAM-missile style tracked us down. Makes me feel a bit better about being hit that we can't have possibly seen it given that it formed only after we were between houses and only a few hundred meters away.
2. There was a much larger EF3 with max winds of ~160mph forming right behind the wall of wind driven rain that we thought was the tornado.
All in all, these new revelations make me feel a little less incompetent. Yes I fucked up, but in the heat of the moment, we probably did as well as we could with the cards we were dealt.
Here's the link to one more video, showing exactly what we were running from and why it was impossible to actually see what was going on. https://youtube.com/shorts/7pvTvyIsgzE?feature=share