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  1. andyhb
    That video also shows a Pampa-like event where a van is picked up and hurled hundreds of yards from its original location, shortly after the F5 damage to the home. This tornado was one of the kings of the "drill-bit".
  2. andyhb
    I can easily say that the EF5s in this outbreak were certainly among the strongest ever from a damage perspective...
  3. andyhb
    Two of those overshooting tops are easily identifiable. The one North Central/Central AL is Tuscaloosa/Birmingham and I believe the one in NE AL is Cordova/Rainsville.
  4. andyhb
    And also how the event progressed from a more linear look on Wednesday to "holy crap this is gonna be a discrete supercell bonanza"...
  5. andyhb
    This thread is brilliant.
  6. andyhb
    Compare that to areas like the Oklahoma City, Birmingham/Tuscaloosa and Little Rock metros and it doesn't seem like a lot, although what matters is that Joplin got the big one just like Birmingham and OKC have gotten...
  7. andyhb
    The sound from 3:25 on is just ferocious...
  8. andyhb
    Merry Christmas to all of the folks in Joplin, here's to a continued recovery.
  9. andyhb
    Great way to finalize it.
  10. andyhb
    Classic fall storm moving into the Coast. Definitely a wind producer as well as heavy rain/snow at higher elevations. Sub 975 mb sfc low right now.
  11. andyhb
    What an absolute monster...
  12. andyhb
    Had to be moving faster than the May '98 derecho to beat you at that
  13. andyhb
    10% hatched around the Joplin area.
  14. andyhb
    CNN's nonsense was even worse on the day of the April 27th outbreak and the aftermath, I don't even want to go there because it will piss me off, tbqh.
  15. andyhb
    Almost certainly not the widest. Although, it was similar to the Wichita Falls tornado in 1979 in that it had a wide swath of consistently catastrophic damage.
  16. andyhb
    The Rainsville tornado from April 27th tore concrete porches from the ground, tore a stone pillar from a house/broke it in half and threw an 800 pound, anchored safe 600 feet and ripped the door from its hinges, so I'm not surprised a tornado of generally equal intensity would be capable of such incredible phenomena.
  17. andyhb
    That is insane.
  18. andyhb
    Weather pornography right there.
  19. andyhb
    In all honesty, I would've probably had more than a few shudders/stumbles in my wording if something that violent was in front of me...
  20. andyhb
    Yeah that part on the video on Youtube where Kathryn screams "BACK UP!" is scarily intense, and then part after you can just hear the desperation in Jeff's voice when he reports the magnitude of the situation. "I have a very destructive, probably F4...maybe F5...goin' through the city of Joplin right now, on the south side of town and it's doin' massive destruction...It's...It's a mile wide tornado, It's tearin' up the entire city, I'm on the south side of Joplin right now..." Still get chills from that.
  21. andyhb
    Tuscaloosa, AL/Yazoo City, MS/etc. Not to mention towns have been hit by multiple violent tornadoes in the same outbreaks (Tanner, AL - Super Outbreak, Elkhart, IN - Palm Sunday '65, Fridley, MN - May 6th, '65). Forgot about this one....
  22. andyhb
    Or Jackson, TN.
  23. andyhb
    I remember several of the original warning texts during the Apr. 27th Outbreak reading something like this: I kind of thought that might be a good idea in the future, except to create the separate TORE category as mentioned above, perhaps with red text or something like in a PDS watch to highlight the threat of the situation.
  24. andyhb
    That's incredible.
  25. andyhb

    Hey thanks man, I'll definitely check that out.

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