Jason N
EF4
I understand the desire to make it about damage. but to me, this takes the environment outside of the structure itself, out the picture. It also seems to open up the door to, say you have a chaser confirmed tornado out over no mans land, and no structures were damaged because it's out over a cornfield or open grass, say within an area of low observable NWS radar coverage (i.e. far enough away that only higher scan angles hit it), how is it rated then?
Say, the grass has been scrubbed off of the earth, and that happens at 160mph (arbitrary guess for argument), "ok everyone! the grass told us it's an EF3, case closed", BUT WAIT!, Vortex just happened to be there measuring it, and it caught 202mph. -insert office space comment "thaaatsss greeaaaat" but , sorry Vortex, the grass is the superior measure of your science truck, the grass is final! but, you can go ahead and add in an addendum to our official report with your data.
So ,10 years from now, people will say when they are posting historical chase chronicles on "TorTube" (copyright JNoe 2025'), that the 23 May 2025 Cornfield Tornado was an EF3 according to NWS grass damage experts, but there's a legitimate radar scans of EF5 lol, it just seems funny to me.
I will finish up with, I am not in a position to know all of the ins and outs of storm damage assessments and relationships but I do think there are some holes here.
Say, the grass has been scrubbed off of the earth, and that happens at 160mph (arbitrary guess for argument), "ok everyone! the grass told us it's an EF3, case closed", BUT WAIT!, Vortex just happened to be there measuring it, and it caught 202mph. -insert office space comment "thaaatsss greeaaaat" but , sorry Vortex, the grass is the superior measure of your science truck, the grass is final! but, you can go ahead and add in an addendum to our official report with your data.
So ,10 years from now, people will say when they are posting historical chase chronicles on "TorTube" (copyright JNoe 2025'), that the 23 May 2025 Cornfield Tornado was an EF3 according to NWS grass damage experts, but there's a legitimate radar scans of EF5 lol, it just seems funny to me.
I will finish up with, I am not in a position to know all of the ins and outs of storm damage assessments and relationships but I do think there are some holes here.
