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Please trust me on this. 1) there was no supercell, no mesocyclone. 2) these funnels were all forming along a boundary on which storms were developing. This funnel developed and touched down well displaced from the thunderstorm. The RFD notch you’re seeing is just a coincidental notch in the clouds.

I couldn’t pull myself away at sunset! What an enjoyable scene.

This was a very weak landspout tornado, but they can become a bit stronger and cause some damage. They’ve been associated with EF-2 or EF-3 damage on rare occasions.

This one has the highest wind speed, but it was for a very short amount of time. Moore 99 had slightly lower winds for much longer, making it stronger

Nope. It didn't do anything catastrophic enough to make it stand out.

@@carlitosdinkler5213Brother what???? it was literally an ef4

​@@carlitosdinkler5213It litterally hit a town

@@mysunshineisturningintoabl2307 Still quite tame damage compared to the actual monster tornadoes, namely the 2011 outbreak ones.

@@carlitosdinkler5213 ??? You don't know anything about tornadoes. This was devastating and how dare you devalue the impacts, the major damage and loss of life. As described even by Ryan Hall Y'all 'this is some of the worst damage I have ever seen behind there'

It hit the town with EF4 damage, but yeah, wind speeds over 300mph, this is an EF-5

@@randomentertainment8927so honestly it is kind of inbetween.. Gladly it didnt hit the town at full potential, yes EF5 but if we talk about damage and how bad it was.. honestly ef4

It went off into the rain and I thought it had behaved itself. Then I heard about it moving into Greenfield :(

Hahahah, truth. even when I watch videos of old F5 tornadoes now I can't help but chuckle and say, "sorry, best we can do is EF-4"

good question! 2024 is certainly up there near or at the top. There is some recency bias, but that recency also means I'm more experienced and have better cameras to document it all with. 2008 was a wild year, 2010 kept me pretty busy as well. Hard to think of a year with so many significant tornadoes all bunched together like 2024 though.

@@AndrewPritchard 2011 was more devastating than every year you mentioned combined lol

@@thelemonlimeninja2144 the question was "my top chase seasons". 2011 had more devastation, but I had a mediocre storm chasing season personally. And also, no it wasn't. It was the most active, for sure, but "more than every year mentioned combined" is just you saying things.

@@AndrewPritchard try again bud. Joplin alone had 150 deaths, plus el Reno f-5, plus four more f-5 and a slew of f-4 on the outbreak. That’s 6 ef-5 in a month time span, there hasn’t been a single ef-5 since 2013. So tell me, what metric are you using to say that because it seems painfully obvious you are wrong

@@thelemonlimeninja2144 "since 2013" and yet every year I listed was BEFORE 2013. SHE ASKED ABOUT MY CHASING. YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ALL-AROUND SEVERE WEATHER. The 'METRIC' is in the first question - "what years were MY BEST for storm chasing" How are you going to define my best years for storm chasing? LORD. Enough is enough. Get the hell outta here calling me "bud" misunderstanding everyone around you with this jibberish.

Try again

This one touched down last month or so and passed it in peak wind speed. This tornado produced the fastest wind speeds documented on earth.

Ever, huh? You must be billions of years old and seem every tornado to ever happen to make that kind of statement!

@thelemonlimeninja2144 he almost certainly meant "ever recorded"

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There are no reliable "ground scouring" damage indicators. That depends a lot on specific soil and vegetation properties that are impossible to reliably assign a wind speed to. Yes, a violent tornado *can* uproot soil and cause ground scouring, but lack of ground scouring is not evidence of a weak tornado.

The measurement was about 100 feet off the ground. Most DOW measurements are taken in the lower middle of the funnel.

DOW readings have nothing to do with the EF scale.

its not the entire tornado it was a 3s gust that I have analysed; it was incredible, but short lived. That ultimately does show that despite subvortex action they can persist for longer durations at once; what is also hypothesised is that windspeeds are greater towards the ground, and my suspect both of these tornadoes could have windspeeds of even the current values (Koshiba & Wurman 2013, 2023)

I can’t argue strength when the rating for what’s stronger is based on industrial housing rather an actual living qualities that we live If foundations are swept and people are missing that’s “ potentially “ an F5

And even then, it's a -3 difference in windspeed between Greenfield and the May 3rd F5. The thing about May 3rd and the 2011 El-Reno Piedmont EF5s is that their worst damage indicators respect the windspeeds to a certain extent. Truth be told, any of the EF5 rated tornadoes *(yes folks, this includes Greensburg, Parkersburg, Newcastle-Moore, and Joplin. Sorry folks, the 4/27/2011 EF5s are not dramatically stronger than the other EF5 rated tornadoes, they're just not. It's not backed by damage analysis nor is it backed by the NWS who have seen them all up close. Sensationalism doesn't immediately equal facts. Even if they are stronger, it's by an inconceivable margin. The EF5 rating is essentially the Jarrell/May 3rd rating)* and several other non-EF5/F5 rated tornadoes could've had windspeeds above 300 mph as well. A few honorable mentions are three of the most forgotten F5s, which are the Niles-Wheatland OH/PA 1985, the 96 Oakfield F5, and the Lawrence county F5 of 98. Those were 4/27/2011 type tornadoes and everything they destroyed was incredibly well built, securely anchored to their foundations, and large.

That's pretty nerdy. Enjoy 2nd place

Just goes to show that the EF scale needs to be updated. Because damage always trumps windspeed. Even if a tornado has windspeeds over 200 mph it doesn't mean it will be an EF5. This was a gnarly angry octopus tornado. Definitely the king of the '24 storm season.

sure: publish.illinois.edu/dowfacility-upgrade/files/2024/06/best-greenfield-windspeed-note-2024-0623bp2.pdf

I suggest going to Norman and speaking with someone in person