Go ahead.
Fairly sure this was the same tornado that hit Greenfield.
NWS: "Definitely an EF2 here"
Most of the forest fires won't get new coverage for obvious reasons
That’s a frame - almost certainly a pickup or box truck of some sort. Betting pickup truck got done picked up.
That used to be a thing I only saw in the Rockies, but it's getting more common for the plains.
70s or 80s half ton ford. Looks like it was a project so the body may not been attached when the storm hit. Half the rear driveshaft is just missing which is weird.
Holy shit. The last time I saw damage like that was the EF5 the blew through Smithville MS in 2011. They still have a dent in their water tower from an SUV being picked up 1/2 a mile away and thrown into it.
Holy shit, look at the fucking debris granulation in the field! The tornado literally turned debris into dust.
Very very high ceiling for that event. I'm definitely concerned about it.
I will legit be mad if the NWS says it's not EF5. I know the F/EF scale are based on observed damage but that's pretty cut and dry
I'm still not too certain to call it EF5 because we don't know how well they were installed/secured just by photos, but regardless that's still some very high caliber damage, at least worthy of an EF4 rating, perhaps at least a high-end EF4. Without a doubt the most violent damage since perhaps Mayfield or even before that.
That's insane, unquestionable EF5 damage to the house and what looks like EF0 damage at most to the trees and small bushes next to it!
It's possible. DOW measured approximately 215mph of inbound windspeeds as it approached Greenfield, and recorded EF5 intensity for several minutes straight. Combine that with outbound and it's likely well over 250mph, although there's no confirmation yet on that.
What gets me is the sheer precision of the damage, it looks like something out of Guin or Xenia in the midst of EF0/1 damage. I can see it's more intense to the upper left of the picture where the trees were snapped so this vortex must have come from that direction.
Worse than that. The parts that didn't experience total slabbing experienced zero damage, not even light damage. Any damage they did experience was likely just from debris which is mental. I've never seen a tornado do something like this.