Jacob Punch
EF0
I have been reading up on several tornado events in the last 10 years or so, (notably 5/9/16,4/14/12, and a few others I am forgetting at this point) and was wondering how many of the radar estimated wind speeds drastically effect the amount of violent tornadoes reported. This may skew the data, but wouldn't it provide a much more accurate description of the power of outbreaks? (i.e. April 14, 2012, as many tornadoes happened in the southern plains, however a few were likely capable of producing EF-4 damage, but were rated EF-2 and EF-3, and how the Salina/Langley, KS tornado was extremely violent.) IMO, I think that a lack of DI's is flawing the system of the Fujita scale, and, please correct me if I'm wrong, but even if the couplets are recorded from a higher beam (not actually what is occurring on the ground), we can find a way to determine, by how far away the beam is and how high off the ground it is scanning, the actual violence or intensity of the tornadoes via couplet. Any new scale or new way of rating tornadoes would likely have to be implemented and not affect the latter scale, due to it's difference, but I would think it would show that there are more strong-violent tornadoes than we may expect (noting that "violent" is recorded as EF-4-EF-5, although all tornadoes are rather "violent" compared to the surrounding atmosphere.)