Hoosier Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Lafayette area tornado (different than hoax pic) is prelim EF3 http://www.jconline.com/article/20131118/NEWS/311180018/Tornado-most-likely-cause-damage-Tippecanoe-factory-expert-says?nclick_check=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye05 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Lafayette area tornado (different than hoax pic) is prelim EF3 http://www.jconline.com/article/20131118/NEWS/311180018/Tornado-most-likely-cause-damage-Tippecanoe-factory-expert-says?nclick_check=1 Wow, really mangled that factory pretty severely. Scary considering it was "just" a spin-up tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjack123 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Very clear cycloidal marks in a field (beyond a largely destroyed farm) northeast of Washington. Those cycloidal marks remind me of some of the tornadoes that were rated EF5. Parkersburg, Iowa is one and a few others from 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Near Decker, IN (wind noise and language). The description says they measured 60 mph inflow winds: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Adamn Lucio's full screener: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 From Mike Ryan at IND... "Our prelim count is now at 17 for the state. 12 from Indy CWA, 3 in NW Indiana and 2 in Grant County. This would be a new daily record for tornadoes in Indiana in November. The previous record was 14 on November 22, 1992. This would put us in 4th overall, behind only June 2, 1990 (33), May 30, 2004 (24), and April 3,1974 (20), all memorable days in their own right." Survey teams will be going back out tomorrow, so those numbers are subject to change. EDIT: Already changed. IWX just confirmed #18. An EF-1 in Pulaski County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Gifford IL tornado EF3. 000NOUS43 KILX 190125PNSILXILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-191330-PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL725 PM CST Mon Nov 18 2013...PRELIMINARY NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 11/17/13 TORNADO EVENT....GIFFORD TORNADO...RATING: EF-3ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 140 MPHPATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 24 MILESPATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: QUARTER MILEFATALITIES: 0INJURIES: 6 MINORSTART TIME: 1245 PM CSTSTART LOCATION: 2 MILES EAST OF THOMASBOROEND TIME: 110 PM CSTEND LOCATION: 2 MILES SOUTH OF EAST LYNNEF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIESTORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES.EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPHEF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPHEF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPHEF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPHEF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPHEF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPHNOTE:THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TOCHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION INNWS STORM DATA.$AUTEN/SCHAFFER/HANSING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye05 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Gifford IL tornado EF3. 000 NOUS43 KILX 190125 PNSILX ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-191330- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 725 PM CST Mon Nov 18 2013 ...PRELIMINARY NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 11/17/13 TORNADO EVENT... .GIFFORD TORNADO... RATING: EF-3 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 140 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 24 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: QUARTER MILE FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 6 MINOR START TIME: 1245 PM CST START LOCATION: 2 MILES EAST OF THOMASBORO END TIME: 110 PM CST END LOCATION: 2 MILES SOUTH OF EAST LYNN EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES. EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH NOTE: THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA. $ AUTEN/SCHAFFER/HANSING That brings the strong/violent tornado count with this outbreak to 17, and it may keep rising. Very impressive, especially for the Ohio Valley in November. The Gifford tornado was a beast of a wedge . https://twitter.com/BigHouse15/status/402266928728653824/photo/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxtrackercody Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 The Washington, IL (city, not county) tornado has been given a specific rating of EF-4 w/ maximum sustained winds of 190mph per NWS Lincoln's twitter. Path length of 46.2 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 The Washington, IL (city, not county) tornado has been given a final rating of EF-4 w/ maximum sustained winds of 190mph per NWS Lincoln's twitter. Path length of 46.2 miles. That's not final. https://twitter.com/MaxTsaparis/status/402620902673629184 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxtrackercody Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 That's not final. https://twitter.com/MaxTsaparis/status/402620902673629184 Interesting, thanks. I just assumed it was final because they had already given it a preliminary rating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Screenshot from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1koXztcs8E Always friggn' scary to see something like this with houses and cars in the background rather than open plains... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Pretty thorough coverage here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 From Mike Ryan at IND... "Our prelim count is now at 17 for the state. 12 from Indy CWA, 3 in NW Indiana and 2 in Grant County. This would be a new daily record for tornadoes in Indiana in November. The previous record was 14 on November 22, 1992. This would put us in 4th overall, behind only June 2, 1990 (33), May 30, 2004 (24), and April 3,1974 (20), all memorable days in their own right." Survey teams will be going back out tomorrow, so those numbers are subject to change. EDIT: Already changed. IWX just confirmed #18. An EF-1 in Pulaski County. I think he accidentally left out 4/19/11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I think he accidentally left out 4/19/11 Which is, I believe, the biggest (isn't it 44?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluggerWx Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Tony, what's the process around the 'national' team that the link says will review to determine if the damage is greater than EF-4? Is it SOP to have a certain group give a final EF-5 rating? Does a regional or local survey team have the authority to rule EF-5? It seems like the pattern with an EF-5 ruling has been to prelim rate @ EF-4, then upgrade to EF-5 in the following days. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 Which is, I believe, the biggest (isn't it 44?). I think it was 29 or 30 in IN...almost all were EF0/EF1 though. The 7 prelim EF2+ tornadoes in Indiana currently ties for 4th place for most F/EF2+ in an outbreak and is the 2nd most F/EF2+ in a November outbreak (10, 11/22/1992). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Tony, what's the process around the 'national' team that the link says will review to determine if the damage is greater than EF-4? Is it SOP to have a certain group give a final EF-5 rating? Does a regional or local survey team have the authority to rule EF-5? It seems like the pattern with an EF-5 ruling has been to prelim rate @ EF-4, then upgrade to EF-5 in the following days. RAZR 2 I'm honestly not sure about the ability for local offices to rate a tornado EF5 (I think they're allowed to now). As you can imagine, most are hesitant to do so without an outside expert opinion. In this case, I'm guessing it's likely either Tim Marshall or Jim LaDue going up there to survey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Downloaded the L2 data from ILX for the Washington, IL tornado. PM me with your email address and I'll email you the data (16z-18z) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 I'm not sure what this is gonna count as in terms of numbers but it's significant given November tornado climo in Michigan. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 743 PM EST MON NOV 18 2013 ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 11/17/2013 TORNADO EVENT BEGINNING IN MUSKEGON COUNTY... ...SEVERAL VERY BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS OCCURRED ALONG AN EXTENDED PATH.... OVERVIEW SEVERAL WEAK TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWNED IN MUSKEGON...NEWAYGO AND POSSIBLY MECOSTA AND ISABELLA COUNTIES ASSOCIATED WITH ONE PORTION OF A SQUALL LINE THAT MOVED THROUGH LOWER MICHIGAN NOVEMBER 17TH. THOUGH THE PATH LENGTH OF DAMAGE END TO END STRETCHES OVER 50 MILES...TORNADOES WERE ONLY BRIEFLY ON THE GROUND FOR A FEW SECONDS IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS ALONG THE PATH. ONE BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OCCURRED IN MUSKEGON COUNTY NEAR BAILEY AND AT LEAST TWO SEPARATE BRIEF TOUCHDOWNS OCCURRED IN NEWAYGO COUNTY NEAR GRANT AND SOUTH OF CROTON. ADDITIONAL BRIEF TOUCHDOWNS MAY HAVE OCCURRED IN MECOSTA AND ISABELLA COUNTY BUT AT THIS TIME THE DAMAGE REVIEWED BY THE NWS SURVEY TEAM PROVED TO BE INCONCLUSIVE. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER MORE TOUCHDOWNS OCCURRED OR NOT...ALL DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED ALONG THE PATH OF THIS STORM WAS RATED EF-0 WIND DAMAGE. DAMAGE WAS MOSTLY TO TREES...THOUGH SEVERAL HOMES...OUTBUILDINGS AND FENCES WERE DAMAGED AS WELL. DAMAGE WAS ISOLATED FROM THIS STORM ALONG THE PATH AND WAS NOT A CONTINUOUS DAMAGE PATH THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE 50 PLUS MILES THIS STORM TRAVELED. RATING: EF-0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 65 TO 75 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 85 MPH IN THE TREE TOPS PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: DAMAGE PATH INTERMITTENT FOR OVER 50 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: LESS THAN 100 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: 11/17/2013 START TIME: APPROXIMATELY 2:45 PM EST START LOCATION: NEAR BAILEY END DATE: 11/17/2013 END TIME: NOT DETERMINED AT THIS TIME END LOCATION: NOT DETERMINED AT THIS TIME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 Not sure if anyone is keeping count of tornadoes that have been surveyed so far but the Wikipedia page for this event currently has 45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwburbschaser Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Not sure if anyone is keeping count of tornadoes that have been surveyed so far but the Wikipedia page for this event currently has 45. This was a rather incredible November outbreak. Hoosier, props to you for being on top of this one, and also props to Tony who nailed this one just like he nailed October 4th. Also, I think Andy was the first one to point out this system which was another good call. It was a pleasure reading this board leading up to the event as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 11/10/2002 had more activity in the South, but for the Ohio Valley/Lakes area, I believe this will end up being more impressive than 2002 and by a fairly big margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 If Washington does end up getting rated EF-5, it would be the 2nd "latest in the year" one. The latest was in Sunfield, Illinois 12/18/1957. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjack123 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 If Washington does end up getting rated EF-5, it would be the 2nd "latest in the year" one. The latest was in Sunfield, Illinois 12/18/1957. I can't think of any tornado that rated F5/EF5 during the month of November. There may have been before the 1950s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I can't think of any tornado that rated F5/EF5 during the month of November. There may have been before the 1950s. No, there haven't been, at least according to Grazulis. It would a true first, in terms of any records that have been kept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 EDIT: Already changed. IWX just confirmed #18. An EF-1 in Pulaski County. The Indiana number is over 20 now (just gonna call it that since surveys aren't done yet and there were a couple potential cwa border crossings). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Saw this come across as a retweet on my Twitter Jim Cantore @JimCantore 3h Lucky to be alive !! via @bryanwx “@USTornadoes: Dash cam of a direct hit by a tornado in Illinois yesterday: http://youtu.be/BLPTrDSjXNw ” Near Tuscola IL on I-57... I do like the random car that appears at 38 secs and is totally oblivious... looks like it was RW tor If posted already, my bad... I went back to page 30 and didnt see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 MKX investigated three separate areas and found that all damage was from straight line winds....of note, they estimated the speeds at 100 mph.... http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=mkx&storyid=98230&source=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 5 tornadoes officially in NW Ohio, 2 EF2's with one tracking through fairly populated suburbs for 12 miles, and 3 EF1's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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