Favorite/most memorable tornado you have personally seen in each EF rating

[Paul Knightley]

Something like this - harder to pick weak ones!

EF-0: S of Pratt, KS, May 26th 2008
EF-1: East of Pratt, KS, May 26th 2008
EF-2: Campo, May 31st 2010
EF-3: El Reno, OK, May 31st 2013
EF-4: Quinter, KS, May 23rd 2008 (or Bennington 1 if you think it should be!)
EF-5: Not yet (well, El Reno, really!)

 

[Quincy Vagell]

I like this idea. I have a spreadsheet of all the tornadoes I've seen, but I never finished filling out the EF-scales. Here it goes:

EF-0: Beltrami, MN, August 28th, 2016 (link)
EF-1: Lee's Summit, MO, July 1st, 2015 (link)
EF-2: Grover, CO, June 12th, 2017 (link)
EF-3: Minneola, KS, May 24th, 2016 (link)
EF-4: Alpena, SD, June 18th, 2014 (link)

Factors considered included how close I got, how unique the tornado was and any interesting notes. For the latter, the Beltrami tornado was the first tornado I saw in Minnesota, while the Lee's Summit tornado is the only tornado I've seen in Missouri so far in my career. Of these tornadoes list above, those two were the briefest, with the Lee's Summit tornado barely being visible. Most of the EF-1s from my collection were very brief and/or hard to see. Now that I think about it, the Grover, CO tornado and the Alpena, SD tornado were also the only tornadoes I've seen in Colorado and South Dakota...