Super Tornado- OK 4/30/24

[Playa]

I doubt many heard of this extremely powerful tornado, by the grace of God it didn’t hit any structures and nobody was hurt.

the author of the post below makes a valid argument that the current tornado rating scale is insufficient. A better method would be to add an intensity value, Tornado Intensity (TI 1-5). Do a tornado like this would be rated EF-0 TI-5. Seems logical and would accurately evaluate powerful tornados such as this.

This is just mind blowing, the EF scale needs to be amended (very likely will in 2 years)...
Late last night one of the most powerful tornadoes on Earth ever occurred just east of Hollister, Oklahoma. It had gate to gate velocities over 260 mph. It had a vortex hole similar to an eye of a hurricane, and swirl could be seen at 18,000 feet. It ranked number 2 of all time via rotational velocities. Anything this would have hit, and I mean ANYTHING would have been completely gone/missing.....Thankfully it hit nothing over open fields. We need an intensity scale, like we do with hurricanes, not a damage only based scale.

[Greenheadless]

I think they have been debating this for a couple years how. Same thing with hurrycane ratings (I believe it was shot down this year).

I think it is more brought on my the climate change alarmist to help bolden their arguments.

[Playa]

Yes it’s been discussed for years. And yes, some will use it to their advantage to further their agenda.

but the scale was based on Dr Fujita’s research on the May 10 1970 Lubbock tornado and was limited by the data capabilities of the equipment in use at that time. It needs to be amended to account for data available from current equipment and technology

[HogHunter34]

Imagine today's technology on the one that hit Jarrell, Tx in 1997. That one had wind speeds right at 261 mph and ripped soil as deep as 18" from the ground. Unbelievable devastation

[Killer]

Bad looking mother

[Tx.Fisher]

Imagine today's technology on the one that hit Jarrell, Tx in 1997. That one had wind speeds right at 261 mph and ripped soil as deep as 18" from the ground. Unbelievable devastation

Jarrel may not have had the most casualties ever, but the fact that there was no homes or debris left to even search for survivors was mind blowing. Well built homes, bolted to slabs were completely gone as if they never existed.

[spidermonkey]

And the crazy part is that there have been several recorded with wind speeds a good bit higher than this one! Mind boggling. Good Huntin, and God Bless, Rusty

[BayouCat]

Imagine today's technology on the one that hit Jarrell, Tx in 1997. That one had wind speeds right at 261 mph and ripped soil as deep as 18" from the ground. Unbelievable devastation

It ripped the asphalt off the highway. I remember driving through there from South TX hours after it happened. Brand new homes that were on the west side of 35 were just slabs after that tornado. It was awful.

[huntresss]

Thanks for explaining why that one in Hollister was only an F-0. We live near Sulphur which was wiped out Saturday night by an F3, and was watching the one in Hollister closely. When I heard the reports of it being a PDS, and then saw that it was an F-0 this morning, I couldn't understand why the discrepancy. That makes a lot more sense to me now.

[cj7zrcool]

Jarrel may not have had the most casualties ever, but the fact that there was no homes or debris left to even search for survivors was mind blowing. Well built homes, bolted to slabs were completely gone as if they never existed.

The casualty count in the Jarrel tornado took a while to get right because of the difficulty of figuring out which body parts went to who. Those poor people were just sucked up into a blender. Awful.

[Saltyag15]

I saw that on the radar...I assumed a mega tornado, but I'm very uneducated. Yes, it looked like the eye of a hurricane. Scary scary stuff.

[Drycreek3189]

If you are unlucky enough to be in it, the scale doesn’t matter much. It only matters to those who want to quantify it, study it, or both. I rate them as hit or missed. I like missed !

[PondPopper]

WOW!!! It’s plum Scary to think how devastating that thing could have been!!

[PondPopper]

It ripped the asphalt off the highway. I remember driving through there from South TX hours after it happened. Brand new homes that were on the west side of 35 were just slabs after that tornado. It was awful.

I remember seeing close up pics of a couple of those house slabs and the 2.5” long base plate anchor bolts were bent over 90 degrees, flat against the slab.
Like someone with a sledgehammer did it. That storm was ridiculously powerful!!!

[150class]

Didn’t this one also spin off one of the only clockwise rotating tornadoes ever recorded in the northern hemisphere?

I love to geek out on weather but 2 things I absolutely do not care for is baseball size and bigger hail or tornadoes because how quickly the form and come out of nowhere